Vladimír Remek

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Vladimír Remek
Vladimír Remek
Country: Czechoslovak
Socialist Republic
selected on 6th December 1976
Calls: 1 space flight
Begin: March 2, 1978
Landing: March 10, 1978
Time in space: 7d 22h 17min
retired on March 1978
Space flights

Vladimír Remek (born September 26, 1948 in České Budějovice , Czechoslovakia ) is a former Czechoslovak cosmonaut as well as a Czech politician and diplomat. He was the first Czechoslovak in space.

Life

Vladimir Remek is the son of a Slovak and a Czech.

Ever since Remek heard about the flight of the first human into space on the school radio in 1961, he wanted to follow Yuri Gagarin there.

From 1966 Remek attended the Air Force Officers' College in Košice . In 1972 he was delegated to study at the Moscow Military Academy of Air Forces "JA Gagarin" . Remek graduated from the Air Force Academy and served as an Air Force pilot in his country. In 1976 he was selected as a cosmonaut aspirant and took part in the Interkosmos program as a military pilot. Between March 2 and 10, 1978, he flew as a research cosmonaut on board the Soyuz 28 for seven days, 22 hours and 17 minutes. As a target of this mission, the Soyuz spacecraft docked with the Salyut 6 space station . This makes him the first non- Soviet or US-American person in space.

Later Remek became head of the Museum of Aviation and Space Travel in Prague and representative of the company "Che-Zet" in Moscow . Following this, he worked at the Czech Embassy in Russia until 2004 . In 2004 he became a member of the European Parliament for the Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia and was a member of the Group of the European Left until 2013.

From January 2014 to January 2018 he was Ambassador of the Czech Republic to Russia.

Vladimír Remek is married and has two children.

Awards

The Soyuz 28 landing capsule on display at the Kbely Aviation Museum
  • Remek received the honorary title Hero of the Soviet Union for his space flight .
  • On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the first space flight, Remek received the medal "In honor of conquering space" from Russian President Medvedev . (In the protocol he was entered as a Slovak.)

See also

Web links

Commons : Vladimír Remek  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Not badly amazed ... Neues Deutschland from January 18, 2014
  2. ↑ March 2, 1978: Czechoslovak cosmonaut flew into space (Radio Praha 03-03-2008, accessed on January 5, 2014)
  3. ^ A Czech in Space , Prager Zeitung, March 2, 2018
  4. ↑ Daily news overview . Radio Prague International, April 12, 2011, accessed on July 13, 2018: "However, he considers himself a Czechoslovak astronaut anyway ..."
personal data
SURNAME Remek, Vladimír
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czechoslovak spaceman and Czech politician, MEP and ambassador
DATE OF BIRTH September 26, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH České Budějovice , Czechoslovakia