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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 ...
Boris Volynov was the first Jew in space. Antisemitism nearly prevented him from going. Volynov and Gargarin picnicked together during their training. Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. By David Ian ...
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 ...
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- Irkutsk, Irkutsk Oblast, Russian SFSR
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Soyuz 5 (Russian: Союз 5, Union 5) was a Soyuz mission using the Soyuz 7K-OK spacecraft launched by the Soviet Union on 15 January 1969, which docked with Soyuz 4 in orbit. It was the first docking of two crewed spacecraft of any nation, and the first transfer of crew from one space vehicle to another of any nation, the only time a transfer ...
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 ...
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.
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Jan 15, 2019 · Advertisement. Soyuz 5, a Soviet Union mission using the Soyuz 7K-OK spacecraft, launched on January 15, 1969 on a successful mission that would be capped off by a dramatic re-entry. Commander Boris Volynov was the pilot of Soyuz 5, which carried flight engineers Aleksei Yeliseyev and Yevgeny Khrunov as crew to be transferred to the Soyuz 4 for ...
