Boris Valentinovich Volynov

Cosmonaut
Nationality:	Soviet
Date of birth:	December 18, 1934
Place of birth:	Irkutsk, Russia
Previous Occupation:	Engineer
Rank:	Colonel, Soviet Air Force
Time Spent in Space:	52d 07h 17m
Selection:	Air Force Group 1
Mission(s):	Soyuz 5, Soyuz 21
Mission Insignia:

Boris Valentinovich Volynov (Russian: Борис Валентинович Волынов; born December 18, 1934 in Irkutsk) is a Soviet cosmonaut who flew two space missions of the Soyuz programme: Soyuz 5, and Soyuz 21. He was the first Jewish astronaut. Cosmonaut Boris Volynov File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... State motto (Russian): Пролетарии всех стран, соединяйтесь! (Transliterated: Proletarii vsekh stran, soedinyaytes!) (Translated: Workers of the world, unite!) Capital Moscow Official language None; Russian (de facto) Government Federation of Soviet republics Area  - Total  - % water 1st before collapse 22,402,200 km² Approx. ... December 18 is the 352nd day of the year (353rd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1934 (MCMXXXIV) was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... Irkutsks location Irkutsk (Russian: ) is the administrative center of Irkutsk Oblast, one of the most important places in Siberia, being not only the principal commercial depot north of Tashkent, but also a fortified military post, an archbishopric of the Russian Orthodox Church and the seat of several learned societies. ... Look up engineer in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Colonel is a military rank of a commissioned officer, with the corresponding ranks existing in nearly every country in the world. ... The Soviet Air Force, also known under the abbreviation VVS, transliterated from Russian: ВВС, Военно-воздушные силы (Voenno-Vozdushnye Sily), formed the official designation of the airforce of the Soviet Union. ... 1958 1959 1960 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1976 1978 1979 1980 1982 1984 1985 1987 1990 1992 1994 1995 1996 1997 2000 2003 2004 1958 June 25 - Man In Space Soonest - USA The first group of American astronaut candidates were selected... The Soyuz 5 was a Soyuz spacecraft launched by the Soviet Union on January 15, 1969 that docked with Soyuz 4 in orbit. ... Crew Boris Volynov (2) Vitali Zholobov (1) (1) number of spaceflights each crew member has completed, including this mission. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (854x641, 1025 KB) Beschreibung Soyuz 5 mission patch white background Licensing File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Boris Volynov Yevgeny Khrunov Aleksei Yeliseyev ... December 18 is the 352nd day of the year (353rd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1934 (MCMXXXIV) was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... Irkutsks location Irkutsk (Russian: ) is the administrative center of Irkutsk Oblast, one of the most important places in Siberia, being not only the principal commercial depot north of Tashkent, but also a fortified military post, an archbishopric of the Russian Orthodox Church and the seat of several learned societies. ... State motto (Russian): Пролетарии всех стран, соединяйтесь! (Transliterated: Proletarii vsekh stran, soedinyaytes!) (Translated: Workers of the world, unite!) Capital Moscow Official language None; Russian (de facto) Government Federation of Soviet republics Area  - Total  - % water 1st before collapse 22,402,200 km² Approx. ... U.S. Space Shuttle astronaut Bruce McCandless II using a manned maneuvering unit (MMU) outside the Challenger in 1984. ... Human spaceflight is space exploration with a human crew, and possibly passengers (in contrast to unmanned space missions, which are remotely-controlled or robotic space probes). ... The Soyuz human spaceflight programme was initiated in the early 1960s as part of the manned lunar programme that was intended to put a Soviet cosmonaut on the Moon. ... The Soyuz 5 was a Soyuz spacecraft launched by the Soviet Union on January 15, 1969 that docked with Soyuz 4 in orbit. ... Crew Boris Volynov (2) Vitali Zholobov (1) (1) number of spaceflights each crew member has completed, including this mission. ...

He is a graduate of the Soviet Military Engineering Academy and held the rank of Colonel in the Soviet Air Force. After resigning from the space programme in 1982, he spent eight years as a senior administrator at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Centre. After 30 years of service in Star City he retired. He and wife Tamara still live in their apartment next to Mrs Juri Gagarin in Star City. In June of 2006 they visited the Kennedy Space Center. The Soviet Air Force, also known under the abbreviation VVS, transliterated from Russian: ВВС, Военно-воздушные силы (Voenno-Vozdushnye Sily), formed the official designation of the airforce of the Soviet Union. ... 1982 (MCMLXXXII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Centre was inaugurated on January 11, 1960 in Star City outside Moscow. ...

In mid January of 1969, during his ninth year in the Soviet space program, Commander Volynov was aboard Soyuz 5 in space following an orbital docking with Soyuz 4. The two ships seperated as planned and the two other cosmonauts returned to Earth in Soyuz 4. The two ships seperated as planned and the other two cosmonauts returned to Earth in Soyuz 4. Volynov began undertaking his return Soyuz 5.

But its service module failed to seperate after retrofire. Once the Soyuz started reaching Earth's outer atmosphere, the combined spacecraft sought the most aerodynamically stable position, nose forward. This put the heavy descent module with its light metal entry hatch toward the front, and the lesss dense service module with its flared base to the back.

For Volynov, this was calamitous. The extremely high heat that accompanies rentry now threatened to melt the hatch during the descent and incinerate everything inside, including him. Worse, Volynov realized in short order there was nothing he could do.

Luckily, the struts between the descent and service modules either broke off or burned through before the hatch melted through, enabling the descent module to right itself and ward off the consuming heat.

But then, due to a failure of the soft landing rockets, Volynov's touchdown was much harder than usual, causing hime to break numerous teeth.

Boris Volynov was awarded the Hero of the Soviet Union (January 22, 1969) and Order of Lenin. Hero of the Soviet Union (Russian: Геро́й Сове́тского Сою́за, transliterated as Geroy Sovetskogo Soyuza) was the highest honorary title and the superior degree of distinction of the former Soviet Union. ... January 22 is the 22nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1969 (MCMLXIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1969 calendar). ... The Order of Lenin (ru: Орден Ленина), named after the leader of the Russian Revolution, was the second highest national order of the Soviet Union (Highest was the Order of Victory). ...