Pyotr Klimuk

Pyotr Klimuk (born July 10, 1942, Komarovka, Belorussia, U.S.S.R. [now in Belarus]) is a Soviet cosmonaut who flew three times in space and was head of the Yury Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Centre near Moscow. Klimuk became a cosmonaut trainee in 1965, at age 23. Between 1967 and 1969 he trained for a flight around the Moon that was eventually canceled. He flew his first mission into space in 1973 as commander of Soyuz 13, during...