Vladimir Ilyushin



"His love of the sport was immediate and stayed with him for the rest of his life. The entire early history of the Soviet manned space program has been declassified and we have piles of memoirs of cosmonauts, engineers, etc., who participated. We know who was in the original cosmonaut team, who never flew, was dismissed, or was killed in ground tests. Ilyushin is not one of them. Now he's really a mecha pilot, riding on the Obyekt 245 Robot."

--Su Ji-Hoon, The Rampage of the Obyekt 245 Robot