Flight record
first and only flightFirst and only flight year 1971.
1Flight
23d 18hTime in space
Not recordedEVA time
0Spacewalks
Flights count launches with a definitive outcome — the same basis as the Stats page.
Biography
Georgiy Timofeyevich Dobrovolsky (Russian: Гео́ргий Тимофе́евич Доброво́льский; June 1, 1928 – June 30, 1971) was a Soviet cosmonaut who served on the three-man crew of the Soyuz 11 spacecraft. They became the world's first space station crew aboard Salyut 1, but died in space due to asphyxiation due to an accidentally opened valve. They were the first and, as of 2018, the only humans to have died in space.
Biography from Launch Library 2.
Background
- Born in
- Odesa
- Education
- Gagarin Air Force Academy
- Awards
- aircraft pilot qualification (class); Hero of the Soviet Union; Honoured Master of Sports of the USSR; Jubilee Medal "30 Years of the Soviet Army and Navy"; Jubilee Medal "40 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR"; and 8 more
From Wikidata.
Flights
- Soyuz | Soyuz 11June 6, 1971 · 04:55 UTC
Born 1928-06-01 · died 1971-06-30, aged 43