https://padlet.com/14042561/fh068dr2y4thsncc Ex-Cosmonaut. en-us 2022-03-09 20:03:09 UTC 2025-09-28 23:15:27 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f680.png 14042561 https://padlet.com/14042561/fh068dr2y4thsncc/wish/2086859525 Hi! My name is Valery Bykovsky and I'm a Cosmonaut. I was chief of cosmonaut training for the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project. It was carried out in July 1975. As well as command pilot of Soyuz 22, a 190-hour flight that began on September 15, 1976. And I was commander of Soyuz 31, which lifted off with East German cosmonaut Sigmund Jähn aboard on August 26, 1978. And before leaving the space program in 1988 I served as a cosmonaut trainer. ]]> 2022-03-09 20:13:38 UTC https://padlet.com/14042561/fh068dr2y4thsncc/wish/2086859525 14042561 https://padlet.com/14042561/fh068dr2y4thsncc/wish/2089057106 I was the 11th person to venture into space and who holds the unbroken record for the longest solo spaceflight! I first flew aboard a Vostok 5 spacecraft in June 1963 and would then go on to take part in two more USSR missions. The Vostok 5 was the 5th spacecraft launched by USSR. USSR stands for Soviet Union, in full Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. The Vostok spacecraft was designed to eject the cosmonaut at approximately 7 km and allow them to return to earth by parachute. Although initial reports made it unclear whether Gagarin landed in this manner or returned in the spacecraft, subsequent reports confirmed that he did indeed eject from the capsule. ]]> 2022-03-10 19:43:43 UTC https://padlet.com/14042561/fh068dr2y4thsncc/wish/2089057106 14042561 https://padlet.com/14042561/fh068dr2y4thsncc/wish/2089080300 Over my entire career, I spent a total of nearly 21 days in space. I left the cosmonaut corps in 1982 and later worked in several roles at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center at Star City near Moscow. I would go onto late retire in 1990. However, before that I spent this time conducting basic science experiments, using a camera to film Earth's horizon and observing the growth of peas. I exercised and recorded my body's reaction to the microgravity environment. Two days into my flight, on my 31st orbit of Earth, Bykovsky was joined by another cosmonaut in space. "Have started carrying out joint spaceflight," radioed the pilot of Vostok 6.
Valentina Tereshkova, the first woman in space, flew in tandem with me, with our two spacecraft coming as close as 3.1 miles (5 kilometers) of each other.]]> 2022-03-10 19:58:25 UTC https://padlet.com/14042561/fh068dr2y4thsncc/wish/2089080300