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Pavel Romanovich Popovich (Russian: Па́вел Рома́нович Попо́вич, Ukrainian: Павло Романович Попович, romanized: Pavlo Romanovych Popovych; 5 October 1930 – 29 September 2009) was a Soviet cosmonaut.
Pavel Popovich 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.
Oct 1, 2009 · The sixth man to orbit the Earth, Pavel Romanovich Popovich died Wednesday, five days before his 79th birthday.
Oct 1, 2009 · Pavel Romanovich Popovich, born in 1929 in the Kiev region of what is now Ukraine, was part of a pioneering team trained to pilot the Vostok craft, the first manned vehicles the Soviets sent...
Pavel Romanovich Popovich. (1930—2009) 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.
Aug 14, 2016 · Popovich, Pavel Romanovich. Credit: www.spacefacts.de. Ukrainian pilot cosmonaut 1960-1982. Commander of first military space station mission. Status: Deceased; Active 1960-1982. Born: 1930-10-05. Died: 2009-09-29. Spaceflights: 2 . Total time in space: 18.69 days. Birth Place: Uzin, Kiev. Graduated from Military Pilot School, Grozny, 1954.
Cosmonaut Andriyan Nikolayev orbited the Earth 64 times in Vostok 3 over nearly four days in space, August 11–15, 1962, a feat which would not be matched by NASA until the Gemini program (1965–1966). [1] Pavel Popovich was launched on Vostok 4 on August 12, and made 48 Earth orbits.
Apr 12, 2019 · After cosmonauts Nikolai Andrianov and Pavel Popovich simultaneously piloted two Vostoks in August 1962, a female group flight seemed like the logical next step.
Sep 30, 2009 · Pavel Popovich, a leading figure in the pioneering generation of early cosmonauts and the fourth Soviet man to go to space, died on Wednesday at a sanatorium aged 79, space officials said.
Apr 19, 2018 · Graduated from Military Pilot School, Grozny, 1954; graduated from Air Force Academy, Monino, 1968; Major General, Ret., and pilot, Soviet Air Force; was selected as cosmonaut on 07.03.1960 ( TsPK -1); OKP (cosmonaut basic training): 3/60 - 18.01.1961; later Director of AIUS Agroresurs, Moscow; died of brain bleeding. ©.
