MilitaryBorn May 13, 1942

Vladimir Dzhanibekov

Soviet general, pilot and cosmonaut

Born
May 13, 1942 (age 84)
Known as
aircraft pilot, astronaut, politician, painter, postage stamp designer

Vladimir Aleksandrovich Dzhanibekov is a retired Soviet Air Force Major General and a cosmonaut veteran of five orbital missions. Notably he was part of the Salyut-7 rescue mission and also discovered the Dzhanibekov Effect on that same mission, a logical consequence of the Tennis racket theorem.

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