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Boris Valentinovich Volynov (‹See Tfd› Russian: Бори́с Валенти́нович Волы́нов; born 18 December 1934) is a Soviet cosmonaut who flew two space missions of the Soyuz programme: Soyuz 5, and Soyuz 21. Following the death of Alexei Leonov in October 2019, he is the last surviving member of the original group of ...
- March 18, 1965: Alexei Leonov Completes First Spacewalk from Voskhod 2
- June 3, 1965: Edward White Makes American Spacewalk
- June 5, 1966: Eugene Cernan’s Un-Excellent Adventure
- November 13, 1966: Buzz Aldrin Soars on Gemini 12
- Jan. 16 1969: Soviet Union Achieves First Eva Crew Transfer
- July 21, 1969: Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin Walk on Moon
- August 5, 1971: Al Worden Makes First Deep Space Eva
- May 26, 1973: Outdoor Housework on Skylab
- February 7, 1984: First Untethered Spacewalk
- July 25, 1984: Cosmonaut Metal-Workers
The first human being to walk in space, the Soviet Union’s Alexei Leonov, floated from his Voskhod-2 spacecraft on the morning of March 18, 1965 and spent just 12 minutes afloat. They were, as it turned out, 12 miserable minutes. His body temperature soared from the exertion, pushing him dangerously close to heatstroke. His spacesuit expanded so mu...
Americans were runners-up in the race to walk in space, with Gemini IV’s Ed White performing his EVA more than 10 weeks after Leonov’s. But unlike Leonov, White loved every second of his 23-minute adventure. “I feel like a million dollars,” he exclaimed as he maneuvered around with the aid of a hand-held zip gun. The gun ran out of fuel before the ...
After Ed White’s grand time on Gemini 4, NASA expected Gene Cernan’s more-ambitious spacewalk on Gemini 9 to be a pleasure. It wasn’t. A maneuvering backpack was stashed in a storage area in the rear, outdoor portion of the spacecraft, but without any handholds on the ship to help him maneuver, Cernan mostly spun and snapped at the end of his tethe...
The astronaut who was destined to become the second man on the moon made a smaller but no less relevant kind of history aboard Gemini 4, when he at last proved that spacewalking could be done efficiently and productively. Aldrin exited his spacecraft three times—twice for stand-up EVAs in which he remained partly inside—and once for more than two h...
For Aleksei Yeliseyev and Yevgeny Khrunov, the joint mission of Soyuz 4 and 5 was a little like getting a lift to work in one friend’s car and coming home in another’s. The two cosmonauts launched with commander Boris Volynov aboard Soyuz 5, and then docked in orbit with Soyuz 4, commanded solo by Vladimir Shatalov. Yeliseyev and Khrunov then succe...
History forgets the paradoxical smallness of the first lunar landing. Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin were on the lunar surface for just 21 hours and 36 minutes. Their moonwalk—a solid-ground EVA—lasted less than two and a half hours. The area they explored was equally modest: if the landing area were a baseball field and the lunar module touched do...
The center seat in an Apollo spacecraft was even less appealing than the center seat in a commercial aircraft. The guy in the middle was the one who’d have to stay aboard the command module while the other two astronauts went down to the surface of the moon. In the case of Al Worden, command module pilot of Apollo 15, that solo housesitting lasted ...
Nobody pretended that after the thrill of the moon landings, it would be easy selling Americans on Skylab, the retrofitted third stage of a Saturn V booster that served as the country’s first space station. But that sales job proved even harder when Skylab was launched and arrived in orbit with a jammed solar panel and a damaged sun shield, which l...
Finally, a spacewalk looked the way it was supposed to look. Since Alexei Leonov first stepped outside, every EVA had included safety tethers to keep the astronauts from floating away. But in 1984, astronaut Bruce McCandless eased himself away from the shuttle Challenger, steering about with the aid of a 300-lb. jetpack known in NASA-speak as the M...
Spacewalks were always supposed to be about work—and that was especially so when it came to space stations. The Soviets’ early-generation Salyut stations were workhorses of longstanding, but that meant they’d need maintenance if they were to keep on flying. In the summer of 1984, Svetlana Savitskaya and Vladimir Dzhanibekov tested one of the most i...
Apr 19, 2018 · Graduated from Military Pilot School, Novosibirsk, 1955; graduated from Zhukovsky Air Force Military Engineering Academy, 1968; candidate of technical sciences degree, 1980; Colonel and pilot, Soviet Air Forces, was selected as cosmonaut on 07.03.1960 (TsPK -1); OKP (cosmonaut basic training): 4/60 - 03.04.1961; was assigned as backup for three ...
- 18.12.1934
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- Irkutsk, Irkutsk Oblast, Russian SFSR
- married
Oct 15, 2024 · December 18, 2020. 281. 0. Boris Volynov, the first Jew in space, was born in Irkutsk, Siberia, on this date in 1934. He was chosen in 1960 to be one of the Soviet Union’s first cosmonauts, but the uncovering of his Jewish background (his mother, a physician, was Jewish) kept him grounded as a “backup” crewman for eight years, until the ...
Oct 16, 2021 · The prior mission to Salyut 5 (Soyuz 21) ended abruptly when cosmonauts Boris Volynov and Vitaly Zolobov were forced to rapidly abandon the station. They had smelled acrid fumes and feared the ...
Jan 5, 2014 · The Story of Soyuz 4 and 5 (Part 2) by Ben Evans 11 years ago 8. Possible scenario for how the ill-fated re-entry of Boris Volynov may have occurred. Soyuz 5 began its fall from orbit with the descent module’s hatch facing into the direction of travel, thus exposing the least-protected part of the spacecraft to the most extreme thermal stresses.
Boris Volynov interview with Bert Vis, London, 16 March 2001. Google Scholar ... San Francisco Chronicle, “Successful Russian space maneuver,” 4 July 1974.
