Personal: Male. Reported killed in an orbital flight on September 27, 1960.

Astronaut Career

Astronaut Group: Phantom Cosmonaut.

The October 1959 edition of Ogonyok carried an article 'Flights to High Altitudes' illustrating three men testing life support equipment. Among them was a comrade Kachur. An Associated Press journalist concluded that these men were likely cosmonauts in training. There were extensive rumours of a pending Soviet space flight of importance in September-October 1960. Khrushchev, on a vist to New York, was said to have a model of a spacecraft that he would publicly reveal after its successful launch. In the event, nothing happened (it is now known that the first attempt to launch an unmanned probe to Mars had failed). News correspondents of the time speculated that there had been a manned space flight failure. Later the name of Kachur was associated with this supposed flight.