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Walerij Bykowski was born in Pavlovsky Posad, Russia, on 2 August 1934. By the age of 14, Bykovsky wanted to attend naval school; however, his father was not a proponent of this idea and encouraged him to stay at his school. A few days later Bykovsky attended a lecture on the Soviet Air Force Club which inspired him to pursue his dream of becoming a pilot. He began flight theory lessons when he was 16 at the Moscow City Aviation Club.<\/p>

Bykovsky graduated from aviation school aged 18 and enrolled in the Kachinsk Military Aviation Academy. He graduated from the academy at 21 years old and received the rank of lieutenant. At 25 he became a jet fighter pilot and later became a pilot and parachute instructor with over 72 jumps by the time he began his cosmonaut training. At 26 years old he started his cosmonaut training at Zhukovsky Military Engineering academy. His first assignment was as the backup pilot of Vostok 3. Bykovsky launched on the Vostok 5 mission on 14 June 1963. During the flight he conducted experiments, such as photographing the Earth’s horizon and documenting the growth of peas. Two days into his flight, Valentina Tereshkova flew the Vostok 6 spacecraft within five kilometers of his spacecraft.<\/p>

He set a space endurance record when he spent five days in orbit aboard Vostok 5 in 1963 where his call-sign was “Hawk” . Although this flight duration has since been surpassed by crews of more than one person, it remains the endurance record for a solo spaceflight. He flew the Soyuz 22 mission with Vladimir Aksyonov. The mission launched on 15 September 1976. The capsule was originally a backup for the Apollo\u2013Soyuz Test Project (ASTP). The main purpose of the mission was studying and practising Earth observation techniques. Valery Bykovsky and East German astronaut Sigmund J\u00e4hn after the Soyuz 31 mission.<\/p>

He flew the Soyuz 31 mission to the Salyut 6 space station with the East German Sigmund J\u00e4hn. It was launched on 26 August 1978. They joined two other cosmonauts on the space station that had arrived on Soyuz 29. The four conducted biological experiments on themselves during their stay. Bykovsky and J\u00e4hn undocked from the station in the Soyuz 29 capsule on 3 September and landed back on Earth later that day.
Due to his age, he was moved from active duty to the reserves in 1988. He became the director of the Centre of Soviet Science & Culture in East Berlin after the Soyuz 31 mission.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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