Yuri Glazkov
Yuri Nikolayevich Glazkov | |
|---|---|
Air Force Group 3 | |
| Missions | Soyuz 24 |
Yury Nikolayevich Glazkov (
cosmonaut. Glazkov held the rank of major general in the Russian Air Force
.
Biography
Born in
USSR
, Glazkov graduated from Kharkov Military Engineering High School in 1962, receiving the candidate of technical sciences degree.
He served as a flight engineer in the
Soviet Air Force before being selected as a cosmonaut on 23 October 1965. He flew as a Flight Engineer on the Soyuz 24 mission. He retired from the cosmonaut corps on 26 January 1982. After Soyuz 24, he was made a Hero of the Soviet Union.[2]
He was awarded a doctorate in technical sciences in 1974, and in 1989 he became the first Deputy Chief of Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center, a position from which he retired in May 2000.[1]
Glazkov wrote several books, including a technical guide to spacewalking, Outside Orbiting Spacecraft in 1977 and a book about space exploration, The World Around Us in 1986. Glazkov also authored several
science-fiction novels. One of which, "Чёрное безмолвие" (The Black Silence) was illustrated by fellow cosmonaut Vladimir Dzhanibekov
. It was published in 1987.
Glazkov was survived by his wife Lyubov, and two children.
Honours and awards
- Hero of the Soviet Union (5 March 1977)
- Pilot-Cosmonaut of the USSR
- Order of Merit for the Fatherland;
- 3rd class (2 March 2000) - a great service to the state in the development of manned space flight
- 4th class (9 April 1996)
- Order of Lenin (5 March 1977)
- Order of the Red Star (21 February 1985)
- Medal "For Distinction in Guarding the State Border of the USSR" (1977)
- Medal "For development of virgin lands" (1977)
- Medal "For Strengthening Military Cooperation"(18 February 1991)
- Order Dostyk(Kazakhstan, 11 December 1998)
- Medal "100th anniversary of the fall of the Ottoman yoke" (Bulgaria) (22 October 1978)
- Medal "For Strengthening brotherhood in arms" (Bulgaria)
- Medal "30th anniversary of the Revolutionary Military Council of the Republic of Cuba" (24 November 1986)
- USSR State Prize (28 October 1987)
- State Prize of the Russian Federation (1999)
- Tsiolkovsky Gold Medal (Academy of Sciences of the USSR)
- Honorary Diploma of the VM Komarov (FAI)
- Honorary Citizen of Zhezkazgan (Kazakhstan), Poznań(Poland)
References
- ^ a b "Soyuz 24 cosmonaut Yuri Glazkov, 69, dies". collectSPACE. 2008-12-09. Retrieved 2008-12-09.
- ^ a b Ушел из жизни Герой Советского Союза, летчик-космонавт СССР, генерал-майор Юрий Николаевич Глазков (in Russian). Russian Federal Space Agency. 2008-12-09. Retrieved 2008-12-09. [dead link]
| International | |
|---|---|
| National | |
