First in space: celebrating the 50th anniversary of Yuri Gagarin’s Flight
Georgi Mikhailovitch Grechko
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- Centre culturel Russe
Georgi Mikhailovitch Grechko flew on several flights among which Soyuz 17, Soyuz 26, and Soyuz T-14.
He graduated from the Leningrad Institute of Mechanics with a doctorate in Mathematics. He went on to work at Sergei Korolev’s design bureau and from there was selected for cosmonaut training for the Soviet moon program. When that program was canceled, he went on to work on the Salyut space stations.
Georgi Mikhailovitch Grechko made the first spacewalk in an Orlan space suit. This spacewalk was made on December 20, 1977 during the Salyut 6 EO-1 mission.
He was awarded twice the medal of Hero of Soviet Union.
He resigned from the space program in 1992 to lecture in atmospheric physics at the Russian Academy of Sciences.
A minor planet 3148 Grechko discovered by Soviet astronomer Nikolai Stepanovich Chernykh in 1979 is named after him.
He graduated from the Leningrad Institute of Mechanics with a doctorate in Mathematics. He went on to work at Sergei Korolev’s design bureau and from there was selected for cosmonaut training for the Soviet moon program. When that program was canceled, he went on to work on the Salyut space stations.
Georgi Mikhailovitch Grechko made the first spacewalk in an Orlan space suit. This spacewalk was made on December 20, 1977 during the Salyut 6 EO-1 mission.
He was awarded twice the medal of Hero of Soviet Union.
He resigned from the space program in 1992 to lecture in atmospheric physics at the Russian Academy of Sciences.
A minor planet 3148 Grechko discovered by Soviet astronomer Nikolai Stepanovich Chernykh in 1979 is named after him.