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According to BBC Ukrainian Service, a decorated Soviet hero and the first Ukrainian Cosmonaut Pavlo Popovych died last night in the Crimea.
He was 79 years old. Popovych's first flight was on the "Vostok-4", August 12-15, 1962. This was the first mission that experimented with radio communications between ships. The Vostok-4 was communicating with the Vostok-3. The crews on each ship also took photographs of each other. He went on to other missions, went into politics briefly, and penned a number of books.
Thank you for your service, sir, I hope you weren't offended by the Anti-Soviet restaurant.
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It was also the first mission that experimented with the concept of Ukrainians in space.
So going to space increases your lifespan, as an alternative to being a spy.
Ha! Yes, it seems in the former Soviet Union, your best bets for a long life are to be a spy, a cosmonaut, or a repatriated ex-pat writer (Solzhenitsyn).
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