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unusual facts about Cosmonaut



Ali Gagarin

He earned his nickname of Ali Gagarin when he played professional football for Al-Hilal, one Sudan’s biggest teams, his meteoric rise in the sport was likened to that of the famous Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin.

Andrei Ujică

His next work, Out of the Present, told the story of the cosmonaut Sergei Krikalyov who spent 10 months on board MIR, while back on Earth, the Soviet Union collapsed.

Barnaul Airport

Barnaul Airport is named after second Soviet cosmonaut Gherman Titov.

Baturin

Yuri Baturin (Юрий Батурин), Russian cosmonaut and former politician

Bertalan Farkas

Bertalan Farkas (born August 2, 1949) was the first Hungarian cosmonaut and the first Esperantist in space.

Dobroslavtsi Air Base

At the time these events occurred the squadron leader was Georgi Ivanov Kakalov, the country's first cosmonaut.

Franz Viehböck

After two years of training he was chosen for the mission, and launched on October 2, 1991 together with the Russian cosmonauts Alexander A. Volkov and the Kazakh Toktar Aubakirov in Soyuz TM-13 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome spaceport.

Gennadi Strekalov

From 1 August to 10 December 1990 he was the flight engineer on Soyuz TM-10's flight to Mir, with Gennadi Manakov and Japanese reporter-cosmonaut Toyohiro Akiyama.

History of Vietnam since 1945

In 1980, cosmonaut Phạm Tuân became the first Vietnamese and the first Asian to go into space, traveling on the Soviet Soyuz 37 to service the Salyut 6 space station.

James A. Pawelczyk

(Polish Cosmonaut Mirosław Hermaszewski was the first Pole in space in 1978 when he flew aboard a Soyuz 30 spacecraft as part of a Soviet bloc program 'Interkosmos'.) In 1999, Pawelczyk and three other astronauts from the STS-90 crew were guests of State of the Republic of Poland.

Katri Lipson

Her debut novel Cosmonaut (Kosmonautti) was shortlisted for the Finlandia Prize in 2008 and won the Helsingin Sanomat Debut Book of the Year Award that same year.

Leonid Kizim

Leonid Denisovich Kizim (Кизим Леонид Денисович) (August 5, 1941 – June 14, 2010) was a Soviet cosmonaut.

Mikhail Rasputin

He was a Cosmonaut and the Russian Federal Space Agency tried to test his powers by sending him on a suicide mission.

Mir EO-3

Also on TM-6 was the two person crew of the visiting expedition Mir EP-3, consisting of the commander Vladimir Lyakhov, as well as the first Afghan cosmonaut Abdul Ahad Mohmand.

Mir EO-4

The expedition began in November 1988, when crew members Commander Aleksandr Volkov and Flight Engineer Sergei Krikalev arrived at the station via the spacecraft Soyuz TM-7.

From November 28 to December 21, 1988, there were six people aboard the station: the three crew members of EO-4, Titov and Manarov who were finishing EO-3, and the visiting French cosmonaut Jean-Loup Chrétien who had launched aboard Soyuz TM-7 on 26 November.

Mir EP-3

The crew of EP-3, also known as the Soyuz TM-6 crew, consisted of Soviet cosmonaut Vladimir Lyakhov as commander, and the first Afghan to visit space, Abdul Ahad Mohmand.

Mongolian name

A few chose other attributes of their lives as surnames; Mongolia's first cosmonaut Gürragchaa chose 'Sansar' (Outer space).

Oleg Kononenko

On February 12, 2012, Kononenko and colleague cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov are scheduled to conduct a six-hour spacewalk outside the ISS.

Sergey Ryazansky

He was launched to the International Space Station on board the Soyuz TMA-10M spacecraft on September 25, 2013 alongside American astronaut Michael S. Hopkins and another Russian cosmonaut, Oleg Kotov.

Star City, Russia

In the summer 1992, American "Youth Science Ambassadors" sponsored by People to People International were hosted at Star City where they were treated to a presentation by cosmonaut Anatoly Artsebarsky.

The Dignity of Labour

These are loosely tied together with a story depicting the construction of the Vostok 1 spacecraft, as well as the launch of the rocket and the pioneering Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin into space.

The Fabulous Baron Munchausen

The astronaut/cosmonaut leaves his spacecraft and sights other footsteps on the moon leading him to an old phonograph, then a crashed rocket with a plaque reading Jules Verne's From the Earth to the Moon.

Thomas Marshburn

Marshburn served as a Flight Engineer on Expedition 34/35 to the International Space Station, launching aboard Soyuz TMA-07M on December 19, 2012, from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, along with crew members Chris Hadfield of the Canadian Space Agency and Russian cosmonaut Roman Romanenko.

Toktar Aubakirov

On October 2, 1991 he launched with Russian cosmonaut Alexander Volkov as flight commander, and the Austrian research cosmonaut Franz Viehböck in Soyuz TM-13 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome spaceport, and spent over eight days in space.

Valentin Bondarenko

According to Golyakhovsky, cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin spent several hours at the hospital as "deathwatch officer" and Bondarenko died of shock 16 hours after the accident, less than three weeks before Gagarin's historic spaceflight.

Vladimir Aksyonov

Vladimir Viktorovich Aksyonov (Влади́мир Ви́кторович Аксёнов) (born in Giblitsy, Kasimovsky District, Ryazan Oblast, Russian SFSR on February 1, 1935) is a Soviet cosmonaut, married with two children.

Vladimir Aleksandrovich Steklov

In 1999 he underwent basic cosmonaut training in preparation for visiting the MIR space station as a commercial guest to work on a film, but his trip was canceled.

Vladimir Georgiyevich Titov

After three weeks of joint work, Titov and Manarov returned to Earth together, along with the French cosmonaut Jean-Loup Chrétien aboard Soyuz TM-6.

William Shepherd

From October 31, 2000 to March 21, 2001, he and Russian cosmonauts Yuri Gidzenko and Sergey Krikalev served as Expedition 1, the first crew stationed at the ISS.

Winogrady

The estates (osiedla) are called Osiedle Pod Lipami ("Under the Lime Trees"), Osiedle Przyjaźni ("Friendship"), Osiedle Kosmonautów ("Cosmonauts'"), Osiedle Wichrowe Wzgórze ("Wuthering Heights") and Osiedle Zwycięstwa ("Victory").

Yelizaveta Tarakhovskaya

Since then, she wrote many children's books, including Metropolitan (1932), The Moon and the Lazy Fellow (1933), The Seagull (1965, dedicated to Valentina Tereshkova, Soviet Russian cosmonaut, the first woman to go into space).

Yury Glazkov

One of which, "Чёрное безмолвие" ("The Black Silence") was illustrated by fellow cosmonaut Vladimir Dzhanibekov.


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