Viktor Patsayev

Born

June 19, 1933

Died

June 30, 1971 (aged 38)

Known as

engineer, astronaut

Viktor Ivanovich Patsayev 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 ; he became the first man to operate a telescope outside the Earth's atmosphere.

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