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Pavel Ivanovich Belyayev (Russian: Павел Иванович Беляев; 26 June 1925 – 10 January 1970) was a Soviet fighter pilot with extensive experience in piloting different types of aircraft.
Jun 22, 2024 · Pavel Belyayev was a cosmonaut who served as the commander of the Voskhod 2 spacecraft during the Soviet Union’s eighth crewed space mission, launched March 18, 1965. This was the flight on which Aleksei Leonov, Belyayev’s copilot, became the first astronaut to walk in space.
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Pavel Belyayev was a Soviet cosmonaut who flew on Voskhod 2 in 1965, the first spacecraft to carry three people. His mission was marred by several emergencies, including a space walk, a hatch door malfunction, and a manual re-entry.
Leonov lobbied hard for his friend Pavel Belyayev to sit in the commander’s seat. He got his way, despite doctors’ concerns about a leg injury Belyayev had sustained during parachute training.
Even less well known was how close Leonov and his crewmate, Pavel (Pasha) Belyayev, came to dying that day. In his recently published book, Two Sides of the Moon, written with U.S. Apollo...
- Alexei Leonov
Cosmonauts Alexey Leonov and Pavel Belyayev are interviewed by a radio journalist after landing a reduced gravity training exercise (1965/1965) Museum of Cosmonautics. Sergey Pavlovich Korolyov,...
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Voskhod 2 ( Russian: Восход-2, lit. ' Sunrise-2 ') was a Soviet crewed space mission in March 1965. The Vostok -based Voskhod 3KD spacecraft with two crew members on board, Pavel Belyayev and Alexei Leonov, was equipped with an inflatable airlock.
