Georgy Beregovoy
Georgy Timofeyevich Beregovoy was a Soviet cosmonaut who commanded the space mission Soyuzin 1968. At the time of his flight, Beregovoy was 47 years of age he was the earliestborn human to go to orbit, being born three months and three days earlier than the second earliestborn man in orbit John Glenn, but later than X15 pilot Joe Walker who made suborbital space flights.
Beregovoy was born on April 15, 1921, in Fedorivka, Poltava Oblast, Soviet Union . He graduated from a school in 1938 at Yenakieve, Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine. He joined the Soviet Air Forces in 1941, and was soon assigned to a groundattack unit flying the Ilyushin Il2 Shturmovik. He flew some 185 combat sorties during the course of World War II and rose quickly through the ranks, finishing the war as a captain and squadron commander.
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