Georgi Timofejewitsch Beregovoi
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 Soviet Union
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| Organization: | WWS |
| Call sign: | Russian Аргон (" argon ") |
| selected on | January 25, 1964 |
| Calls: | 1 space flight |
| Begin: | October 26, 1968 |
| Landing: | October 30, 1968 |
| Time in space: | 3d 22h 50min |
| retired on | February 1982 |
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Georgi Timofejewitsch Beregovoy ( Russian Георгий Тимофеевич Береговой ; born April 15, 1921 in Fyodorivka , today Poltava Oblast , Ukraine ; † June 30, 1995 in Moscow ) was a Soviet cosmonaut .
Life
After graduating from school, he first worked in the ironworks of Jenakijewo and at the same time joined an aero club. In 1938 he joined the Red Army and was trained at the Voroshilovgrad Military Aviation School until 1941 . In World War II he flew as a fighter-bomber 185 combat missions, was shot three times, and in October 1944 as a squadron commander of the 90th Guards attack aircraft regiment with the rank of captain as a Hero of the Soviet Union awarded.
After the war, Beregowoi completed courses to train as a test pilot from 1945 to 1948 . He then practiced this profession, in which he tested over 60 aircraft, until 1964. He also began a correspondence course at the Academy of the Air Forces of the USSR , where he graduated 1956th In 1961 he was awarded the title of Honored Test Pilot of the USSR . He was selected with the second Soviet cosmonaut group (at the insistence of Marshal Rudenko and with the express recommendations of the head of cosmonaut training Nikolai Kamanin and the rocket designer Sergei Korolev ) and trained from spring 1964. When he arrived in the “Star City ” , the doctor prescribed intensive sports training for him because he didn't seem muscular enough. Beregovoi later reported that it took him four minutes to start 100 meters in the pool. After half a year he had made it to under two and a half minutes and was in excellent physical shape.
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From 1965 on, Beregovoi and three other cosmonauts prepared for a third flight as part of the Voshod program. This was planned for the summer of 1966, but was canceled shortly before.
In October 1968 Beregowoi completed his first and only space flight as a pilot (nickname Argon) of Soyuz 3 . At the time, at 47, he was the oldest person to have flown into space; he is also the earliest born of all people who have ever undertaken a space flight (not just suborbital ). During the four-day mission, he made a rendezvous with the unmanned spacecraft Soyuz 2 , but the docking maneuver failed. Since they were not satisfied with his performance during this flight, he was not nominated for any further flights.
From April 1969 Beregowoi was First Deputy Head of the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center and was appointed head of the center in June 1972. He held this office until January 1987.
In 1970 Beregovoy was elected to the Supreme Soviet . During this time he was Vice President of the Society for Soviet-Hungarian Friendship and Chairman of the Society for Soviet-French Friendship. In 1974 he was re-elected. In the same year he received the title of Doctor of Psychology .
In 1995 Beregovoy died in Moscow.
See also
literature
- Wilfried Copenhagen : Lexicon Soviet Aviation . Elbe-Dnjepr, Klitzschen 2007, ISBN 978-3-933395-90-0 , p. 30 .
Web links
- spacefacts.de: Short biography
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Beregowoi, Georgi Timofejewitsch |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Береговой, Георгий Тимофеевич (Russian) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | soviet cosmonaut |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 15, 1921 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Fyodorivka , today Poltava Oblast , Ukraine |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 30, 1995 |
| Place of death | Moscow |