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Pavel Popovich. Pavel Romanovich Popovich (Russian: Па́вел Рома́нович Попо́вич, Ukrainian: Павло Романович Попович, romanized: Pavlo Romanovych Popovych; 5 October 1930 – 29 September 2009 [2][3]) was a Soviet cosmonaut. [1] Popovich was the fourth cosmonaut in space, the sixth person in orbit, the ...
Nicknamed “Madame MiG,” Popovich is one of Russia’s most accomplished woman pilots and the ex-wife of Pavel Popovich, the fourth Soviet in space. ... When her father died, Galina had just ...
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Dec 23, 2017 · Sat Dec 23 2017 - 01:51. Marina Lavrentyevna Popovich, a test pilot who broke more than 100 flying records and who was the first Soviet woman to break the sound barrier, died in the Krasnodar ...
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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Oct 1, 2009 · Pavel Popovich, Sixth Man in Orbit, Dies at 78. News. By Robert Z. Pearlman. published 1 October 2009. ... He is survived by his wife Alevtina Oshegova and twodaughters from a former marriage.
Aug 14, 2016 · Popovich is ready to continue for a fourth day, but he admits the cold is getting to him. Keldysh and Rudenko now support returning Vostok 4 to earth on the 49th orbit, but Smirnov still wants to go for the extra day. Then Popovich radios 'I observe thunderstorms (groza). Groza is the pre-agreed code word to indicate that the cosmonaut is vomiting.
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September 30, 2009. — The sixth man to orbit the Earth, Pavel Romanovich Popovich died Wednesday, five days before his 79th birthday. According to officials in Russia, his death came following a stroke at a hospital in Gurzuf on Ukraine's Crimean Peninsula. "Pavel was a wonderful person," recalled first woman in space Valentina Tereshkova, in ...