Bykovsky made his second space flight in 1976
and his third in 1978.
Bykovsky's death on Wednesday(March 27)
was confirmed by Russia's federal space corporation Roscosmos.
Bykovsky's third
and final spaceflight was an Interkosmos mission with Sigmund Jähn, Germany's first citizen in space.
Two days into his flight, on his 31st orbit of Earth, Bykovsky was joined by another cosmonaut in space.
In addition to his three spaceflights, Bykovsky served as a backup to the Vostok 3 and Soyuz 37 missions.
Bykovsky spent his time conducting basic science experiments,
using a camera to film Earth's horizon and observing the growth of peas.
Pioneering Soviet-era cosmonaut Valery Bykovsky, who made the first of his three flights to space in 1963,
has died at age 84.
Bykovsky was married to Valentina Mikhailovna Sukhova,
with whom he had two sons, Valery(who preceded Bykovsky in death in 1986) and Sergei.
Russian cosmonaut Valery Bykovsky, who made the first of his three flights to space in 1963,
passed away at the age of 84 years.
Bykovsky was selected for the Soviet space program
alongside Yuri Gagarin as a member of the first group of cosmonaut trainees in March 1960.
Soviet-era cosmonaut Valery Bykovsky, whose first of three spaceflights was a joint mission with
the world's first woman to fly into space, has died.
Valery Bykovsky(at left) with fellow Vostok cosmonauts Valentina Tereshkova,
the first woman to fly in space, and Yuri Gagarin, the first human in space.
In 1959, prior to testing to become a cosmonaut, Bykovsky was promoted to promoted to senior lieutenant and achieved the rating
of military pilot, 3rd Class.
Bykovsky launched on his first mission on June 14,
1963, as the pilot of Vostok 5, the former Soviet Union's fifth spaceflight and the 11th worldwide.
The duration was long enough to
set a new record for time in space and Bykovsky's retains the title for the longest solo spaceflight in history.
Between his first and second launches, Bykovsky was assigned to the prime crew of Soyuz 2,
but that mission was canceled after Soyuz 1 ended in tragedy.
Bykovsky and Jähn lifted off on board the Soyuz 31
spacecraft on Aug. 26, 1978, on a week-long flight to deliver supplies to the Salyut 6 space station.
Russia's space agency said Wednesday March 27, 2019,
that pioneering Soviet-era cosmonaut Valery Bykovsky, who made the first of his three flights to space in 1963,
has died at age 84.
Flying with his Soyuz 22 crewmate Vladimir Aksyonov, Bykovsky spent a week observing Earth,
taking more than 2,400 photos of the planet with a multi-spectral camera that could take six images simultaneously.
For his service to his country's space program, Bykovsky was named a Hero of the Soviet Union
and awarded the Order of Lenin and the Order of the Red Star, among numerous other Russian and international honors.
Bykovsky's next mission came 13 years later,
with his liftoff on Sept. 15, 1976 as commander of Soyuz 22, a refurbished spacecraft that had been a backup to the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project jointly flown with the United States the year prior.
As Nicholas I promoted Konstantin Thon's eclectic church designs,
architects(Mikhail Bykovsky) and art circles in general(Nikolai Gogol)
called for general liberalization of building permit procedures, insisting on the architect's freedom to choose a style best fitting the building's functions and the client's preferences.