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Viktor Patsayev

1933 - 1971

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Viktor Ivanovich Patsayev (Russian: Виктор Иванович Пацаев; 19 June 1933 – 30 June 1971) was a Soviet cosmonaut who flew on the Soyuz 11 mission and was part of the third space crew to die during a space flight. On board the space station Salyut 1 he operated the Orion 1 Space Observatory (see Orion 1 and Orion 2 Space Observatories); he became the first man to operate a telescope outside the Earth's atmosphere. After a normal re-entry, the capsule was opened and the crew was found dead. It was discovered that a valve had opened just prior to leaving orbit that had allowed the capsule's atmosphere to vent away into space, suffocating the crew. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Viktor Patsayev is the 60th most popular astronaut (down from 45th in 2019), the 21st most popular biography from Kazakhstan (up from 25th in 2019) and the most popular Kazakhstani Astronaut.

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Among ASTRONAUTS

Among astronauts, Viktor Patsayev ranks 60 out of 556. Before him are Vladislav Volkov, Mirosław Hermaszewski, Gordon Cooper, Ellison Onizuka, Wally Schirra, and Fred Haise. After him are Michael P. Anderson, Christa McAuliffe, Jean-Loup Chrétien, Sunita Williams, Bruce McCandless II, and Claude Nicollier.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1933, Viktor Patsayev ranks 149. Before him are Frits Bolkestein, Princess María Teresa of Bourbon-Parma, John Gurdon, Bob Bennett, Fred Haise, and Laura Mancinelli. After him are Princess Marie Louise of Bulgaria, Wendell R. Anderson, Josef Kadraba, Bernadette Chirac, Tomas Milian, and Gregory III Laham. Among people deceased in 1971, Viktor Patsayev ranks 66. Before him are Jo Siffert, Princess Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen, Reinhold Niebuhr, Shunryū Suzuki, T. V. Soong, and Paul Lukas. After him are Margaret Bourke-White, Gene Vincent, Nora Stanton Barney, Hermann Ehrhardt, John W. Campbell, and Dita Parlo.

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In Kazakhstan

Among people born in Kazakhstan, Viktor Patsayev ranks 21 out of 193. Before him are Wladimir Klitschko (1976), Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev (1952), Mukhtar Auezov (1897), Shoqan Walikhanov (1835), Aliya Moldagulova (1925), and Oleg Yankovsky (1944). After him are Dinmukhamed Kunaev (1912), Toktar Aubakirov (1946), Manshuk Mametova (1922), Vladimir Shatalov (1927), Alu Alkhanov (1957), and Kurmangazy Sagyrbaev (1823).

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Among ASTRONAUTS In Kazakhstan

Among astronauts born in Kazakhstan, Viktor Patsayev ranks 1. After him are Toktar Aubakirov (1946), Vladimir Shatalov (1927), Aleksandr Viktorenko (1947), Talgat Musabayev (1951), and Yury Lonchakov (1965).

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