ROSCOSMOS: GEORGY GRECHKO is Deceased

ROSCOSMOS logo.

April 8, 2017

Today, April 8, 2017, on the 86th year of his life, twice died Hero of the Soviet Union, Hero of Czechoslovakia, pilot-cosmonaut Georgy Mikhailovich Grechko.

Georgy GRECHKO was born on May 25, 1931 in Leningrad. In 1955 he graduated with honors from the Leningrad Mechanical Institute, he worked at OKB-1. In 1966 he entered the cosmonaut detachment. Georgy GRECHKO made 3 space flights with a total duration of 134 days 20 hours 32 minutes 58 seconds and one spacewalk for 1 hour 28 minutes.

Georgy GRECHKO. Image Credit: Wikipedia

From January 11 to February 9, 1975, together with Alexei Gubarev, made a flight on the Soyuz-17 spacecraft as a flight engineer. December 10, 1977 - March 16, 1978 together with Yuri ROMANENKO flew on the Soyuz-26 spacecraft as a flight engineer of the spacecraft and the Salyut-6 orbital station. On September 17-26, 1985, Georgy GRECHKO as a flight engineer together with commander Vladimir Vasyutin and cosmonaut-researcher Alexander VOLKOV made the third space flight on the Soyuz T-14 spacecraft and the Salyut-7 orbital station. This is the last space flight Georgy GRECHKO performed at the age of 54 years.

For more information and biography of Georgy GRECHKO - Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgy_Grechko

ROSCOSMOS condoles with relatives and friends of Georgy Mikhailovich GRECHKO. Everlasting memory.

ROSCOSMOS Press Release: https://www.roscosmos.ru/23423/

Image (mentioned), Video, Text, Credits: ROSCOSMOS/Orbiter.ch Aerospace/Roland Berga.

R.I.P., Orbiter.ch