From: LARRY KLAES (ljk4_at_msn.com)
Date: Wed Jul 07 2004 - 09:40:49 PDT
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http://www.spacetoday.net/getsummary.php?id=2448 Veteran cosmonaut dies
Andriyan Nikolayev, the third Russian in space and veteran
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of two space flights, passed away Saturday at the age of 74.
Nikolayev suffered a heart attack while judging a sports
competition in the Chuvashian region of Russia, where he was
born. Nikolayev was part of the first group of cosmonauts
selected in 1960, and first flew in space on Vostok 3 in
1962, spending a record four days in space. He later flew on
the Soyuz 9 mission in 1970, spending 18 days in orbit. That
flight also revealed that the human body can be weakened by
extended exposure to weightlessness without exercise. In
1963 he married the first woman in space, Valentina
Tereshkova; they divorced in 1982. He is scheduled to be
buried Tuesday in Chuvashia.
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