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Vostok cosmonaut Valery Bykovsky, who flew three missions, dies [i]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. He was 84. Bykovsky's death on Wednesday (March 27) was confirmed by Russia's federal space corporation Roscosmos. "Bykovsky belonged to the first generation of Soviet cosmonauts, who wrote many bright pages in the glorious history of Russian manned cosmonautics," officials at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City said in a statement.[/i]
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