Author Topic: Cosmonaut-3 passed off (Read 566 times)

Boroda · « **on:** July 06, 2004, 05:32:22 PM »

I didn't follow the news since last Thursday and missed this

Andriyan Nikolayev, Cosmonaut-3, the fourth man in space, died on July, 3.

Pilot of Vostok-3, he was one of the crew commanders for Soviet Lunar programm. He have held two world records for the duration of space flight. His second flight in 1970 on board of Soyuz-9 lasted for 7 days and 16 hours. He and his crew-mate Vitaly Sevastyanov were the first people to suffer from "Nikolayev's syndrome": they have suffered from zero-gravity, losing the ability to walk.

In 1963 he and Valentina Tereshkova, first woman in space, got married, becoming a first cosmonaut family.

May he rest in peace!

midnight Target · « **Reply #1 on:** July 06, 2004, 05:41:38 PM »

~~to a pioneer~~

rpm · « **Reply #2 on:** July 06, 2004, 05:46:32 PM »

Charon · « **Reply #3 on:** July 06, 2004, 05:51:36 PM »

I had the honor of meeting and speaking at some length (through a translator) with German Titov in the mid 1990s. He passed away in 2000.

Charon

Lizking · « **Reply #4 on:** July 06, 2004, 05:54:21 PM »

It was all done on sound stages....

Just kidding, S! to a Hero.

Krusher · « **Reply #5 on:** July 06, 2004, 06:11:22 PM »

CavPuke · « **Reply #6 on:** July 06, 2004, 06:20:26 PM »

Sorry to see the passing of another great pioneer.

Maverick · « **Reply #7 on:** July 06, 2004, 06:24:39 PM »

Brave man and a pioneer in a very unforgiving territory.

AKIron · « **Reply #8 on:** July 06, 2004, 06:24:57 PM »

VOR · « **Reply #9 on:** July 06, 2004, 07:33:16 PM »

WilldCrd · « **Reply #10 on:** July 06, 2004, 07:38:06 PM »

SLO · « **Reply #11 on:** July 06, 2004, 07:46:15 PM »

Comrade Andriyan Nikolayev

I had the Honor and Privilege of talking too MARC GARNEAU (PH.D.) ASTRONAUT.

one hour of asking all kinds of question about space, take-offs, zero G so on and so forth....

he answered all of them. A real gentlemen.

Boroda · « **Reply #12 on:** July 06, 2004, 08:03:16 PM »

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Originally posted by Charon

I had the honor of meeting and speaking at some length (through a translator) with German Titov in the mid 1990s. He passed away in 2000.

Charon

I have Titov's book with his autograph. My Father worked with him when German Stepanovich was a commander of Military Space Forces, they flew in one plane to Baykonur every month. His death is a mistery. He was an extremely healthy man, and wanted to fly to space again, like John Glenn. He have always boasted that he was in better shape then Glenn, and died from a small glass of cognac after banya. He was a true Communist, one of those who deserve all possible respect.

The worst thing about Andriyan Nikolayev is that his family is against his burial in his home village. It looks like he was buried in that forgotten far away place only because president of Chuvash republic wanted it. Nikolayev definetly deserved to be buried in Moscow at Novodevichye semetary together with Pokryshkin and other great pilots. Sad that only that scandal broke through to national TV channels...

Boroda · « **Reply #13 on:** July 06, 2004, 08:20:12 PM »

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Originally posted by GScholz
Andriyan Nikolayev.

So ... Andriyan Nikolayev suffered from Nikolayev's syndrome? How did he not see that one coming? (j/k)

Correction: Soyuz-9 flight time was not 7 days, but 17 days, 16 hours, 58 minutes and 55 seconds. They were the first people who suffered from long time exposure to zero-gravity. Next record was made by the crew of Salyut-1, Dobrovol'skiy, Volkov and Patsayev, who died on re-entry from capsule unpressurising. (That's why all Soyuz ships had only a crew of two until early 80s, they had no space inside the capsule for three men in old pressurised suits). Then - Skylab crew who stayed up there for 85 days.

Charon · « **Reply #14 on:** July 06, 2004, 11:47:11 PM »

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His death is a mistery. He was an extremely healthy man, and wanted to fly to space again, like John Glenn.

The topic came up during our conversation in a round about way. He was in the US during his political career as part of a delegation looking into household water treatment technologies at our trade show, when I worked for an association in that industry. I was the PR guy. The drinks had been flowing a bit at an informal social function and his idea was to go up with a young female cosmonaut and do some zero G biological research

You know, test the age factor. He seemed rather confident

Quite the jovial guy, a bit rough, but with a lot of charm and personality was my impression.

I asked him about the risks with the early space program and he just shrugged and said something along the lines of, "no big deal, part of the job."

Charon