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Gagarin with U.S. Vice President Hubert Humphrey, French Prime Minister Georges Pompidou and Gemini 4 astronauts Jim McDivitt and Ed White at the 1965 Paris Air Show. Two years later, he was re-elected as a deputy of the Soviet Union but this time to the Soviet of Nationalities, the upper chamber of the legislature. [67]
Fallen Astronauts. University of Nebraska Press. pp. 272. ISBN 0-8032-6212-4. Burgess, Colin (2007). In the Shadow of the Moon: A Challenging Journey to Tranquility, 1965–1969. University of Nebraska Press. pp. 448. ISBN 978-0-8032-1128-5. Burgess, Colin; Hall, Rex (2008). The First Soviet Cosmonaut Team: Their lives, legacy and historical ...
[1] [2] Astronauts have also died while training for space missions, such as the Apollo 1 launch pad fire that killed an entire crew of three. There have also been some non-astronaut fatalities during spaceflight-related activities. As of 2025, there have been over 188 fatalities in incidents regarding spaceflight.
A Viktor Mikhaylovich Afanasyev — Soyuz TM-11, Soyuz TM-18, Soyuz TM-29, Soyuz TM-33 / 32 Vladimir Aksyonov (1935–2024) — Soyuz 22, Soyuz T-2 Aleksandr Pavlovich Aleksandrov — Soyuz T-9, Soyuz TM-3 Ivan Anikeyev (1933–1992) — Expelled from Vostok program; no flights. Oleg Artemyev * — Soyuz TMA-12M, Soyuz MS-08, Soyuz MS-21 Anatoly Artsebarsky * — Soyuz TM-12 Yuri Artyukhin ...
After his death, the Soviet government declared a period of national mourning in the memory of Gagarin. This was the first case in Soviet history where a day of national mourning was declared after the death of a person while performing work for the state [1] and was the first time it happened for someone who was not a head of state. [2]
A month short of 26 years old at launch, he is the youngest Astronaut and remained the youngest person to fly in space until July 2021, when his record was surpassed by a Dutch teenager, Oliver Daemen. [7] [8] Titov was a member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, as were almost all the Soviet cosmonauts.
Soyuz TM-7 was launched on 26 November 1988, with Krikalev as flight engineer, Commander Aleksandr Volkov, and French astronaut Jean-Loup Chrétien. The previous crew (Vladimir Titov, Musa Manarov, and Valeri Polyakov) remained on Mir for another 25 days, marking the longest period a six-person crew had been in orbit. After the previous crew ...
Valeri Vladimirovich Polyakov (Russian: Валерий Владимирович Поляков, born Valeri Ivanovich Korshunov, Russian: Валерий Иванович Коршунов, 27 April 1942 – 7 September 2022) was a Soviet and Russian cosmonaut.