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Boris Valentinovich Volynov ( 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 cosmonauts.
Boris Volynov (born December 18, 1934) is a Jewish Russian cosmonaut widely considered to be the first Jew to go into space. Volynov was born in the Siberian city of Irkutsk in the former Soviet Union and grew up in Prokopevsk, a town located in the Kemerovo Oblast region of southern Russia.
Happy 83rd birthday to Boris Volynov, the first Jewish astronaut! Despite his origins initially hindering his selection for missions, his talent would be fin...
Soyuz 5 was piloted by commander Boris Volynov and carried flight engineers Aleksei Yeliseyev and Yevgeny Khrunov as the crew to be transferred to Soyuz 4 for reentry. The mission plan contained scientific, technical, and medical-biological research, testing of spacecraft systems and design elements, docking of piloted spacecraft, and transfer ...
Apr 13, 2021 · Boris Volynov was a Soviet pilot, born to a Jewish mother in the Siberian city of Irkutsk. Though he trained in the initial class of cosmonauts with Gargarin, he wouldn’t get the chance to...
Vladimir Shatalov was launched first aboard Soyuz 4 on 14 January 1969, followed into orbit the next day by the three-man crew of Boris Volynov, Yevgeny Khrunov and Alexei Yeliseyev on Soyuz 5. All four cosmonauts were making their first flights into space.
But the first Jew to venture into the final frontier was Soviet cosmonaut Boris Volynov, who went into space 15 years before Resnik: January 15, 1969. And if not for his heritage, Volynov could have gone even earlier.
Jun 23, 2024 · 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.
Boris Valentinovich Volynov (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 cosmonauts. Read more on Wikipedia.
1969: Soyuz 5. As part of the reentry procedure at the end of his flight aboard Soyuz 5, cosmonaut Boris Volynov had to jettison his spacecraft's extra modules. But when he fired the explosive...
