[FPSPACE] Cosmonaut Pavel Popovich, sixth man in space, dies aged 79: reports (Keith Gottschalk)

[Dante Wynter]

> So this means that Valentina Tereshkova, retired textile workers &
> parachutist, is now the longest-living Soviet cosmonaut?  And John Glenn the
> same for the USA?
> - Keith

Keith~

John Glenn is the oldest space traveler, American or Russian, and Konstantin Petrovich Feoktistov, aged 83, is (and was before the death of Pavel Popovich) the oldest Cosmonaut.  And there are four other cosmonauts that are older than Popovich was.

Dante Wynter
 		 	   		  
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