Valery Rozhdestvensky

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Valery Rozhdestvensky
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Vyacheslav Zudov and Valery Rozhdestvensky (right) on a 1977 Soviet stamp
Cosmonaut
Nationality Soviet
Born (1939-02-13)13 February 1939
Leningrad, Soviet Union
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Other occupation
Engineer, Soviet Navy
Time in space
2d 00h 06m
Selection 1965
Missions Soyuz 23

Valery Ilyich Rozhdestvensky (Russian: Валерий Ильич Рождественский, 13 February 1939 – 31 August 2011) was a Soviet cosmonaut.

Rozhdestvensky was born in Leningrad and graduated from the Higher Military Engineering School of Soviet Navy in Pushkin in engineering. From 1961 to 1965 he was commander of a deepsea diving unit in the Baltic Sea War Fleet.

Rozhdestvensky was selected as a cosmonaut on 23 October 1965 and flew as Flight Engineer on Soyuz 23.[1] After his space flight he continued to work with the space program at the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center. He retired on 24 June 1986 and worked with Metropolis Industries. He was married with one child.

He was awarded:

References

  1. Rozhdestvensky. Spacefacts.de


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