Bertalan Farkas

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Bertalan Farkas
Bertalan Farkas
Country: Hungary
selected on March 1, 1978
Calls: 1 space flight
Begin: May 26, 1980
Landing: 3rd June 1980
Time in space: 7 d, 20 h, 45 min, 44 s
retired on 3rd June 1980
Space flights

Bertalan Farkas (born August 2, 1949 in Gyulaháza ) is a Hungarian pilot and former cosmonaut . He is the first Hungarian who was in space .

education

After graduating from the Szolnok Military Aviation School in 1969, Bertalan Farkas attended the Soviet Air Force Academy in Krasnodar , which he graduated in 1972. Farkas worked as a scientist at the Polytechnic University in Budapest . He later joined the Hungarian Air Force as a pilot .

Astronaut activity

On March 1, 1978, Farkas was selected as a cosmonaut and accepted into the Interkosmos program. In 1980 he flew into space as a research cosmonaut of the fifth guest team of the Salyut 6 , which he reached with the Soyuz 36 . After landing with Soyuz 35 on June 3, 1980, Farkas left the cosmonaut corps.

The space capsule with which he returned to earth is in Budapest in the Transport Museum , which is currently closed.

Subsequent activities

Farkas was appointed Air Force Attaché at the Hungarian Embassy in Washington, DC . Today he is President of Airlines Service and Trade Ltd. in Budapest . Today the pilot holds the rank of Brigadier General of the Air Force.

After reunification he joined the Hungarian Democratic Forum , a party with a conservative-bourgeois orientation. For the constituency of Baktalórántháza in northeast Hungary, he ran in the elections to the Hungarian Parliament in 2006 as a direct candidate , but lost.

Private

Farkas is married and has three children.

Honors

Farkas was awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union on June 30, 1980 .

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ A Magyar Múzeumok Honlapja: Hungarian Museum for Science, Technology and Transport. Retrieved March 7, 2019 .
  2. ↑ warheroes.ru: Short biography (Russian, accessed June 4, 2008)
personal data
SURNAME Farkas, Bertalan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian pilot and former cosmonaut
DATE OF BIRTH August 2, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Gyulaháza