Nationality Soviet Role Cosmonaut Time in space 2d 00h 06m | Selection 1965 First space flight Soyuz 22 Name Valery Rozhdestvensky | |
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Born 13 February 1939
Leningrad, Soviet Union ( 1939-02-13 ) Died August 31, 2011, Zvyozdny gorodok, Russia Similar People Vyacheslav Zudov, Vladimir Aksyonov, Valery Bykovsky | ||
Space missions Soyuz 23, Soyuz 22 Other occupation Engineer, Soviet Navy | ||
Valery Ilyich Rozhdestvensky (Russian: Валерий Ильич Рождественский, 13 February 1939 – 31 August 2011) was a Soviet cosmonaut.
Rozhdestvensky was born in Leningrad and graduated from the Higher Military Engineering School of Soviet Navy in Pushkin in engineering. From 1961 to 1965 he was commander of a deepsea diving unit in the Baltic Sea War Fleet.
Rozhdestvensky was selected as a cosmonaut on 23 October 1965 and flew as Flight Engineer on Soyuz 23. After his space flight he continued to work with the space program at the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center. He retired on 24 June 1986 and worked with Metropolis Industries. He was married with one child. He died on 31 August 2011 at the age of 72.
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