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In 1984 Popovich joined the Russian Academy of Sciences' newly created All-Union Investigation Committee for Anomalous Aerial Phenomena and became head of the Academy's UFO Commission. In the 2002 SciFi Channel documentary Out of the Blue , Popovich relays a sighting of a UFO next to the airplane he was travelling aboard as he was returning home from Washington, D.C., with a delegation of ...
Nov 20, 1991 · It was a UFO.” It also was a sign, Popovich says, to devote her post-military career to studying airborne phenomena. In that work she writes, lectures, heads organizations researching anomalous ...
However, Popovich was not going to sit around and do nothing. In 1964, she was the first Soviet woman to break the sound barrier in a MiG-21 fighter jet, for which the courageous pilot was ...
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Marina Popovich: record-breaking Soviet aviator who highlighted UFO sightings. The highly-decorated test pilot was the first woman to break the sound barrier in a MiG-21, earning the nickname ...
Oct 1, 2024 · Pavel Popovich (born October 5, 1930, Uzin, Ukraine, U.S.S.R.—died September 30, 2009, Gurzuf, Ukraine) was a Soviet cosmonaut who piloted the Vostok 4 spacecraft, launched August 12, 1962. He and Andriyan G. Nikolayev, who was launched a day earlier in Vostok 3, became the first two men to be in space simultaneously. The two spacecraft came ...
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Quick Reference. (1930–2009) Soviet cosmonaut. He flew aboard Vostok 4 in August 1962, as part of the first joint space flight, with Vostok 3. The mission ended a day early because Popovich reported seeing thunderstorms over the Gulf of Mexico, forgetting that ‘thunderstorms’ was a code word for returning early because of motion sickness.
Oct 22, 2009 · Barry Kushner writes: I interviewed Pavel Popovich (obituary, 8 October) for a documentary on the Soviet space programme, and found his positive spirit a striking contrast to the fragility and ...
