Flight record
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Flights count launches with a definitive outcome — the same basis as the Stats page.
Biography
Valentin Vasiliyevich Bondarenko (Ukrainian: Валентин Васильович Бондаренко, Russian: Валентин Васильевич Бондаренко; 16 February 1937 – 23 March 1961) was a Soviet fighter pilot selected in 1960 for training as a cosmonaut. He died as the result of burns sustained in a fire during a 15-day low-pressure endurance experiment in Moscow. The government concealed the death, along with Bondarenko's membership in the cosmonaut corps, until 1980. A crater on the Moon's far side is named after him.
Biography from Launch Library 2.
Background
- Born in
- Kharkiv
- Education
- Krasnodar Higher Military Aviation School of Pilots named after Hero of the Soviet Union A.K. Serov
- Awards
- Jubilee Medal "40 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR"; Order of the Red Star
From Wikidata.
Flights
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Born 1937-02-16 · died 1961-03-23, aged 24