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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.
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Oct 1, 2009 · The sixth man to orbit the Earth, Pavel Romanovich Popovich died Wednesday, five days before his 79th birthday.
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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...
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.
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.
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.
