Astronaut Introduction

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 41. Chapters: Tamara E. Jernigan, Toktar Aubakirov, Pavel Belyayev, Timothy Peake, Naoko Yamazaki, Vladimir Ilyushin, Brian Binnie, Svetlana Savitskaya, Daisuke Enomoto, Vladimír Remek, Sergei Avdeyev, Vladislav Volkov, Steven Swanson, Jügderdemidiin Gürragchaa, Valery Bykovsky, Roberto Vittori, Claudie Haigneré, Edward Givens, Jim Wetherbee, Miroslaw Hermaszewski, Charles Camarda, Hans Schlegel, Leonid Kadeniuk, Yelena Kondakova, Leonid Kizim, Pyotr Klimuk, Takao Doi, Vladimir Vasyutin, Andrew M. Allen, Stanley G. Love, Igor Volk, Valeri Kubasov, Jay C. Buckey, Georgy Grechko, Norishige Kanai, Anatoli Levchenko, Yuri Baturin, Liu Boming, Kenneth Cockrell, Alexander Alexandrovich Volkov, Ulrich Walter, Aleksandr Pavlovich Aleksandrov, John Casper, Pedro Duque, Vladimir Shatalov, Michael J. Bloomfield, Albert Sacco, Gary Payton, Mamoru Mohri, Robert S. Kimbrough, James D. Halsell, Janice E. Voss, Stephen Frick, John S. Bull, Reinhold Ewald, Mars Rafikov, Musa Manarov, List of Muslim astronauts, Aleksei Gubarev, Ernst Messerschmid, Aleksandr Lazutkin, Vitaly Zholobov, Vladimir Alekseyevich Solovyov, Vasily Tsibliyev, Georgy Dobrovolsky, Jean-Pierre Haigneré, Aleksandr Poleshchuk, Anatoly Artsebarsky, Albert H. Crews, Gerhard Thiele, Aleksei Yeliseyev, Maurizio Cheli, Oleg Atkov, Rimantas Stankevicius, Muhammed Faris, Aleksandr Laveykin, Jing Haipeng, Nikolai Rukavishnikov, Vladimir Kovalyonok, Yury Vasilyevich Malyshev, Pyotr Kolodin, Marion Dietrich, Yuri Artsutanov, Fernando Caldeiro, Anatoly Berezovoy, Gennadi Sarafanov, Vladimir Aksyonov, Henry C. Gordon, Aleksandr Serebrov, Yevgeny Khrunov, Peter Siebold, Aleksandr Viktorenko, Alexander Gerst, Lev Dyomin, Marianne Merchez, Anatoly Filipchenko, Pratiwi Sudarmono, Leonid Popov, Viktor Gorbatko, Kjell N. Lindgren, Yuri Shargin, Boris Andreyev, Klaus-Dietrich Flade, Georgi Shonin, James W. Wood, Yvonne Cagle, Konstantin Kozeyev, Valery Rozhdestvensky, Vladimir Lyakhov, Aleksandr Ivanchenkov, Russell L. Rogers, Dmitri Zayikin, Viktor Savinykh, Vyacheslav Zudov, Kimiya Yui, Taufik Akbar, Li Qinglong, Ravish Malhotra, Eberhard Köllner, Takuya Onishi, Konstantin Valkov, Aleksandr Balandin, Maidarzhavyn Ganzorig, Dumitru Dediu, Oldrich Pelcák, Sergei Revin, Magomed Tolboyev, Zenon Jankowski, Liu Wang, Pan Zhanchun, Deng Qingming, Judith Lapierre, Kenneth N. Beers, Boris Nikolayevich Belousov, Shuttle Amateur Radio Experiment, ECTM. Excerpt: Pavel Ivanovich Belyayev (Russian: ), (June 26, 1925 - January 10, 1970), was a Soviet fighter pilot with extensive experience in piloting different types of aircraft. He was the first commander of the cosmonaut corps and the cosmonaut who commanded the historic Voskhod 2 mission which saw the first man walk in space in 1965. Pavel Belyayev was one of 6 children and was known as Pasha to his family and friends. He was born on June 26, 1925, in Chelishchevo, in what is now Babushkinsky District, Vologda Oblast. In 1932 his family moved to the nearby village of Minkovo. His father was a physician's assistant and his mother worked on a collective farm. Belyayev began his schooling at the age of 7 in 1932. Physics and geography were his favourite subjects. As a boy he enjoyed playing hockey and hunting. Just before his 13th birthday the family moved to Kamensk-Uralsky region. He continued his education at the Gorkogo secondary school. In 1942, Belyayev took on temporary work as a turner in a factory and later became a...