Valery Bykovsky
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Valery Fyodorovich Bykovsky was a Soviet cosmonaut who flew on three space flights: Vostok 5, Soyuz 22, and Soyuz 31. He was also backup for Vostok 3 and Soyuz 37.
Bykovsky in 2008
Bykovsky and Valentina Tereshkova with children, c. 1963
Valery Bykovsky and East German astronaut Sigmund Jähn after the Soyuz 31 mission
A 1963 Soviet postage stamp showing Valery Bykovsky and Vostok 5
Vostok 5
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Vostok 5 was a joint mission of the Soviet space program together with Vostok 6; as with the previous pair of Vostok 3 and Vostok 4 the two Vostok spacecraft came close to one another in orbit and est
Valery Bykovsky
…Fyodorovich Bykovsky (Russian: Вале́рий Фёдорович Быко́вский; 2 August 1934 – 27 March 2019) was a Soviet cosmonaut who flew on three space flights: Vostok 5, Soyuz 22, and Soyuz 31. He was also backup for Vostok 3 and Soyuz 37. Born in Pavlovsky Posad, Russia, on 2 August 1934, Bykovsky was the son of Fyodor…
Model of the Vostok capsule with its upper stage
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