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

[Jakob Terweij]

Friends,
I got a phonecall this evening that today was the funeral of Pavel  
Romanovich in moscow.
My friends had some celebration and the cosmonauts said that they were  
attending the funeral today.
I will take pictures next year in april when I will going again to  
Moscow and surroundings.
This time (2 weeks ago) i Was in Peresvet were is the old Niikchimash.  
They have opened a new museum there (outside the company, that means  
accessable for everyone) one year ago.
If someone is interested I have some pictures
I live now in Korolov in a new place the dacha of Vladimir  
Syromiatnikov. Very nic Its called Dacha kooperatif ORBITA . So you  
very first toast (wodka offcourse) is to the meeting in ORBIT (orbita)  
There are about 20 dacha's for kosmonauts engeneers of ENergya .
So my landlord is the son of Vladimir, Anton. My old house was burned  
down last August (the first time I was not here in August)A lot of my  
clothing and souvenirs ,books etc was lost.
I still think it was pressure to persuaid my friend to sell the  
property to some company.
But he dicided to rebuild the hous but now in bricks and 3 stories high.
So I have to wait a few years till my room is ready again.
Till that time I reside at ORBITA.
So I have pictures of the new Korolov museum in VDNH, Energya museum,  
Peresvet, MAKS TEll me what you want.
Always at your service.
Jakob

Quoting Paolo Ulivi <paolo.ulivi at tiscali.it>:

> 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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