Georgy Beregovoy

Georgy Beregovoy
Born(1921-04-15)15 April 1921
Died30 June 1995(1995-06-30) (aged 74)
Moscow, Russia
OccupationPilot
AwardsHero of the Soviet Union (twice)
Space career
Cosmonaut
RankLieutenant General, Soviet Air Forces (1938–1987)
Time in space
3d 22h 50m
Selection1962
MissionsSoyuz 3
Retirement1987

Georgy Timofeyevich Beregovoy (Russian: Гео́ргий Тимофе́евич Берегово́й, Ukrainian: Гео́ргій Тимофі́йович Берегови́й; 15 April 1921 – 30 June 1995) was a Soviet cosmonaut who commanded the space mission Soyuz 3 in 1968.[1] From 1972 to 1987, he headed the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center.

At the time of his space flight, Beregovoy was 47 years of age: he was the earliest-born human to go to orbit, being born three months and three days earlier than the second earliest-born man in orbit – John Glenn, but later than X-15 pilot Joe Walker who made 2 (or 3, according to USAF definition) suborbital space flights.

  1. ^ Clark, Philip (1988); The Soviet Manned Space Program; Orion (Crown Publ.), NY; ISBN 0-517-56954-X. p. 182, "Appendix 3: Cosmonaut Data"