Konstantin Feoktistov, born February 7, 1926 in the former Soviet Union, made one trip into space aboard Voskhod 1 in October 1964. He was an engineer working on an ion-propelled spacecraft that could carry people to Mars, when he was selected for cosmonaut training in 1964 and put into space later that same year.
Voskhod 1 was the first multi-passenger mission with a crew of three. It was the first time cosmonauts did not wear spacesuits, because they wanted to keep ahead of the Americans by putting more people into space at once.
Feoktistov's fellow cosmonauts were Vladimir Komarov and Boris Yegorov. Feoktistov ceased training for future missions due to medical reasons.
He passed away in November 2009 in Moscow.
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