Career record
Flights
2
Launches with a definitive outcome — the Stats basis
Career time in space
21d 15h
Career EVA time
under a minute
Spacewalks
0
Biography
Andriyan Grigoryevich Nikolayev was a Soviet cosmonaut. He was an ethnic Chuvash. Nikolayev flew on two space flights: Vostok 3 (effectively becoming the third Soviet cosmonaut) and Soyuz 9. His call sign in these flights was Falcon (Russian: Со́кол). On both, he set new endurance records for the longest time a human being had remained in orbit. He also served as backup for the Vostok 2 and Soyuz 8 missions.
Biography from Launch Library 2.
Launches
- Soyuz | Soyuz 9 — Commander · Success · June 1, 1970
- Vostok-K | Vostok 3 — Pilot · Success · August 11, 1962 · 08:30 UTC
Born 1929-09-05 · died 2004-07-03