| Full Name: | Valery Fyodorovich Bykovsky |
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| Birthdate: | August 2, 1934 - Pavlovski Posad, Russia, USSR |
| Death: | March 27, 2019 |
| Education: | Kachinsk Military Aviation Academy |
| Military Service: | Major General, Soviet Air Force |
| Selection: | Air Force Group 1 (1960) |
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| Vostok 5 | Soyuz 22 | Soyuz 31 | Salyut 6 EP-4 | Soyuz 29 |
| June 14-19, 1963 | September 12-23, 1976 | August 26-November 2, 1978 | August 26-September 3, 1978 | June 15-September 3, 1978 |
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| Valery Bykovsky set the duration record for a solo spaceflight (4 days, 23 hours, 7 minutes) during the Vostok 5 mission. |
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| Cosmonaut Valery Bykovsky | Valery Bykovsky, Valentina Tereshkova, and Yuri Gagarin | Valentina Tereshkova and Valery Bykovsky with Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev |
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