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    8745°N 38.115°E / 55.8745; 38.115 The Yuri A. Gagarin State Scientific Research-and-Testing Cosmonaut Training Center (GCTC; Russian: Центр подготовки космонавтов...
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    Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin (9 March 1934 – 27 March 1968) was a Soviet pilot and cosmonaut who, aboard the first successful crewed spaceflight, became...
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    Sergei Krikalev (category Soviet cosmonauts)
    is a Russian mechanical engineer and former cosmonaut and head of the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center. As a prominent rocket scientist, he is a veteran...
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    Yuri Pavlovich Gidzenko (Russian: Юрий Павлович Гидзенко; born March 26, 1962) is a Russian cosmonaut. He was a test cosmonaut of the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut...
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    On 27 March 1968, Yuri Gagarin, the first man to go into space, died together with pilot Vladimir Seryogin during a routine training flight, after the...
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    Federation and international space missions. It is part of the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center, based at Star City in Moscow Oblast, Russia. The development...
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    spacewalks. From 2014 to 2017, Lonchakov served as head of the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center. Lonchakov was born on 4 March 1965, in Balkhash, Dzhezkazkansk...
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    Georgy Beregovoy (category Soviet cosmonauts)
    a Soviet cosmonaut who commanded the space mission Soyuz 3 in 1968. From 1972 to 1987, he headed the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center. At the time...
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    Oblast, Russia, which has since the 1960s been home to the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center (GCTC). Officially, the area was known as "closed military...
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  • Thumbnail for Viktor Afanasyev (cosmonaut)
    a colonel in the Russian Air Force and a test cosmonaut of the Yu. A. Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center. He was born 31 December 1948, in Bryansk, Russian...
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  • Thumbnail for Vladimir Komarov
    One"; he and the others reported to the newly formed TsPK (Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center) just outside Moscow for assignment on 13 March 1960. Although...
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    with its main Mission Control Center in the nearby city of Korolyov, and the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center located in Star City in Moscow Oblast...
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    Pyotr Klimuk (category Soviet cosmonauts)
    Soviet cosmonaut and the first Belarusian to perform space travel. Klimuk made three flights into space. From 1991 to 2003, he headed the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut...
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    Kirill Peskov (category Russian cosmonauts)
    Roscosmos Group 17 from the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center. He has no spaceflight experience. Before joining the cosmonaut corps, he worked as a first...
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    Roman Romanenko (category Russian cosmonauts)
    Романенко; born 9 August 1971) is a Russian retired cosmonaut at the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center. He is also a politician, sitting in the State...
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    Aleksandr Gorbunov (category Russian cosmonauts)
    Commission, following a meeting at the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center, he was awarded the rank of test cosmonaut. On 20 January 2022, the Interdepartmental...
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    Vladimir Shatalov (category Soviet cosmonauts)
    and Soyuz 10 (1971). From 1987 to 1991, he headed the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center. Lieutenant General, Soviet Air Force (1975). Vladimir Shatalov...
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  • Thumbnail for Vladimir Titov (cosmonaut)
    Gagarin Air Force Academy while continuing his work at the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center. His next assignment came as the commander of Soyuz TM-4...
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    Vasily Tsibliyev (category Russian cosmonauts)
    1954) is a retired Russian cosmonaut and former head of the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center. He was selected as a cosmonaut on March 26, 1987. Tsibliyev...
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  • Thumbnail for Toyohiro Akiyama
    After successfully completing a Research Cosmonaut training course at the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in present-day Russia, Akiyama launched...
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    Aleksey Ovchinin (category Russian cosmonauts)
    Commission for the selection of cosmonauts, he was recommended as a cosmonaut candidate at the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center. From 16 to 22 June 2008...
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  • Thumbnail for Sergey Volkov (cosmonaut)
    the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center from the list of organizations served by military officers. All military personnel serving as cosmonauts were...
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  • Irina Solovyova (category Soviet cosmonauts)
    squad, Solovyova began her training in Star City of the Soviet Union, the home to the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center since the 1960s. The five...
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    her knowledge. Belyaeva is admitted to the training program at the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City. For about two weeks, Belyaeva...
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  • Valery Rozhdestvensky (category Soviet cosmonauts)
    flight he continued to work with the space program at the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center. He retired on 24 June 1986 and worked with Metropolis Industries...
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    Valery Korzun (category Russian cosmonauts)
    spacewalks. He is a Russian Air Force Colonel and cosmonaut of Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center, and was born on 5 March 1953 in Krasny Sulin. Korzun...
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    им. Ю.А.Гагарина. Официальный Web-сайт" [Crews in training]. Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center (in Russian). Retrieved 31 August 2024. Portal: Spaceflight...
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  • Thumbnail for Ulf Merbold
    joint ESA–Russian Euromir missions and received training at the Russian Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center. He flew to space for the third and last time...
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  • proposed name of Sewall, British Columbia Star City, Russia Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center located in Star City, Russia which is also referred to as...
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    procedures, ISS training, and the English language. Training primarily takes place at the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center. The center facilities have...
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