| Valeri Fyodorovich Bykovsky cosmonaut
Biographical Data
Born August 2, 1934, in Pavlovsky Posad,
Russia
Married
Children
Education
Graduated from middle school in 1951
Graduated from Kachinsk's Myasnikov High Aviation School
in 1955
Military Career
Served in Soviet Air Force
Space Career
Accepted into cosmonaut unit in 1960
Reserve crew member for Vostok-3, August 1962
Commanded Vostok-5, June 14-16, 1963 (4 days 23 hours 6
minutes; set a record for space flight duration; still a
record for space flight duration for a one-man mission)
Reserve commander for planned Soyuz-2 flight, which was
cancelled after the failure of Soyuz-1
Commander of Soyuz-22, September 15-23, 1976 (7 days 21
hours 52 minutes 17 seconds)
Commander of Soyuz-31, August 26-September 3, 1978 (7
days 20 hours 49 minutes 4 seconds)
Reserve commander for Soyuz-37, July 1980
Left cosmonaut service in 1988
Spent a total of 20 days 17 hours 47 minutes 21
seconds in space
Post-Space Career
Director of House of Soviet Science and Culture in
Berlin, 1989-1991
Awards and Recognitions
Hero of the Soviet Union (twice)
Hero of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam
Hero of the People's Republic of Bulgaria
Hero of the German Democratic Republic
Order of Lenin (three)
Order of Red Star
Order of Karl Marx (German Democratic Republic)
Order Krest Grunvald (Poland)
Order of Star (Indonesia)
Tsiolkovskiy Gold Medal (USSR Academy of Sciences)
Lavo Gold Medal
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