Cosmonaut Georgy
Grechko passes away
April 08, 14:41UTC+3
Twice Hero of the Soviet Union died at the age of 85
Russia's cosmonaut
Georgy Grechko
© Vladimir
Zavyalov/TASS
MOSCOW, April 8.
/TASS/. Russia's cosmonaut Georgy Grechko died night to April 8, a Russian
space magazine wrote on its website on Saturday.
"At night to
April 8, at the age of 85 died the USSR cosmonaut, twice Hero of the Soviet Union,
engineer and cosmonaut... Georgy Grechko," the website reads.
His daughter, Olga,
told TASS "Papa passed away today at 06:40."
Georgy Grechko was
born on May 25, 1931 in Leningrad. He was on three space missions of the total
duration 134 days 20 hours 32 minutes and 58 seconds, went once into the open
space (for 1 hour 28 minutes). His last flight was in September, 1985, - he was
the engineer of a short-term mission to the Salut-7 station.
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