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

[Paolo Ulivi]

Nikolayev died 5 years ago http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrian_Nikolayev


On Sat, Oct 3, 2009 at 6:43 PM, Keith Gottschalk <kgottschalk at uwc.ac.za>wrote:

> I now realize that I should have worded my email "the earliest flown
> cosmo/astronaut who still survives". The helpful answers here indicate
> that they are John Glenn, then Nicolayev, then Valentina T.
>
> >>> Chris Jones <clj at panix.com> 10/03/09 2:52 AM >>>
> On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 7:32 PM, David R. Woods <drwoods at stny.rr.com>
> wrote:
>
> >
> >   Subject:
> > Re: [FPSPACE] Cosmonaut Pavel Popovich, sixth man in space, dies aged
> 79:
> > reports  From:
> > Rex Hall <rex at rexhallassociates.com> <rex at rexhallassociates.com>
> Date:
> > Wed, 30 Sep 2009 17:06:19 +0100    To:
> > Keith Gottschalk <gottscha at oakland.edu> <gottscha at oakland.edu>,
> "Fpspace at Friends-Partners.
> > Org" <Fpspace at Friends-Partners.Org>
> <fpspace at friends-partners.org><fpspace at friends-partners.org>
> >
> > Tereshkova was born in 1937. There are many living cosmonauts older.
> > Gorbatko, Volynov, Shatalov to name some.
> > Also Tereshkova is cosmonaut 6. Bykovsky is cosmonaut 5 and is still
> alive.
> > Sadly a mistake on all fronts.
> >
> > On 30/9/09 17:01, "Keith Gottschalk"
> <gottscha at oakland.edu><gottscha at oakland.edu>wrote:
> >
> > 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?
> >
>
> This obviously hinges on the meaning of "longest living [...]
> cosmonaut".
> If you're measuring from the time of
> birth you get one answer; if you're measuring from the time of becoming
> a
> cosmonaut, you get another.
>
> For a while now we've had no space travelers alive who flew in 1961, the
> year of the first human spaceflights.
> With Popovich's death, no Soviets who flew in 1962 are left alive.  I
> fear
> we may reach the time when it will be
> true that there is no one living who has walked on the moon.
>
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