Georgi Grechko
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| Georgi Mikhailovich Grechko | |
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 The Salyut 6 cosmonauts—Romanenko and Georgi Grechko—featured on a 1978 postal stamp |
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| Cosmonaut | |
| Status | Retired |
| Born | May 25, 1931 Leningrad, Russia |
| Other occupation | Engineer |
| Time in space | 134d 20h 32m |
| Selection | Civilian Specialist Group 3 |
| Missions | Soyuz 17, Salyut 4 Soyuz 26, Salyut 6 EO-1, Soyuz 27, Soyuz T-14, Salyut 7 EP-5, Soyuz T-13 |
Georgi Mikhailovich Grechko (Russian: Георгий Михайлович Гречко; born May 25, 1931 in Leningrad) was a Soviet cosmonaut who flew on three space flights: Soyuz 17, Soyuz 26, and Soyuz T-14.
Grechko graduated from the Leningrad Institute of Mechanics with a doctorate in mathematics. He went on to work at Sergei Korolev's design bureau and from there was selected for cosmonaut training for the Soviet moon programme. When that program was cancelled, he went on to work on the Salyut space stations.
Georgi Mikhailovich Grechko made the first spacewalk in an Orlan space suit. This spacewalk was made on December 20, 1977 during the Salyut 6 EO-1 mission.
He resigned from the space programme in 1992 to lecture in atmospheric physics at the Russian Academy of Sciences.
A minor planet 3148 Grechko discovered by Soviet astronomer Nikolai Stepanovich Chernykh in 1979 is named after him.[1]
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