On this day in 1988, Bulgaria becomes the third country in the world after USSR and USA to send 2 citizens to space. This is cosmonaut Alexander Alexandrov.
On this day in 1988, Bulgaria becomes the third country in the world after USSR and USA to send 2 citizens to space. This is cosmonaut Alexander Alexandrov.
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Aleksandrov was selected as a Research Cosmonaut on March 1, 1978, as part of the Soviet Union’s Intercosmos program. The selection featured six semifinalists, including the parachute jump record holder, Chavdar Djurov, who was killed during the selection process. Aleksandrov was selected as backup to Georgi Ivanov on the Soyuz 33 mission to the Salyut 6 space station. Subsequently, Aleksandrov was assigned to the prime crew of the Soyuz TM-5 mission to the Mir space station.
On June 7, 1988, Aleksandrov launched aboard TM-5 as a Research Cosmonaut along with mission commander Anatoly Solovyev and Viktor Savinykh. Upon arriving at Mir, Aleksandrov became the first Bulgarian to reach a Soviet space station, as the Soyuz 33 mission carrying Georgi Ivanov failed to reach the Salyut 6 space station. On June 17, Aleksandrov returned aboard Soyuz TM-4 along with his fellow crew members. He, along with his crew-mates, spent just under 10 days in space.
The Space race between the USA and USSR is probably one of the good things in the past century.
They were sent by USSR, not Bulgaria.
Dumitru Prunariu, a romanian, also went to space in 1981
Bulgaria can into space
This is pretty absurd nationalism, Bulgaria hasn’t sent anyone into space nor has it ever had a space program.
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That dude looks an awful lot like Adam Scott.
Czechoslovakia was actually the first country after USSR and USA to send someone to space.
Vladimír Remek went to space all the way back in 2.3. 1978.
Gutsy move to trust delicate space stuff to a guy that looks this much like Mr. Bean
I don’t get it?
How would Bulgaria be third in 1988 if Romania sent an anstronaut in 1981? And besides all of this, Alexander Aleksandrov is the SECOND bulgarian in space, first being Georgi Ivanov in 1977.
This post makes very little sense, OP.