Flight record
first and only flightFirst and only flight year 1969.
1Flight
4d 22hTime in space
Not recordedEVA time
0Spacewalks
Flights count launches with a definitive outcome — the same basis as the Stats page.
Biography
Georgy Stepanovich Shonin (Ukrainian: Гео́ргій Степа́нович Шо́нін) (August 3, 1935 – April 7, 1997; born in Rovenky, Luhansk Oblast, (now Ukraine) but grew up in Balta of Ukrainian SSR) was a Soviet cosmonaut, who flew on the Soyuz 6 space mission. Shonin was part of the original group of cosmonauts selected in 1960. He left the space programme in 1979 for medical reasons.
Biography from Launch Library 2.
Background
- Born in
- Rovenky
- Education
- Yeysk Higher Military Aviation Institute; Zhukovsky Air Force Engineering Academy; Krasnodar Higher Military Aviation School of Pilots named after Hero of the Soviet Union A.K. Serov
- Awards
- aircraft pilot qualification (class); Hero of the Soviet Union; Honorary worker of the NKVD; Jubilee Medal "40 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR"; Jubilee Medal "50 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR"; and 15 more
From Wikidata.
Flights
- Soyuz | Soyuz 6October 11, 1969
Born 1935-08-03 · died 1997-04-07, aged 61