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The first cosmonaut of greek descent

Cosmonaut Fyodor Yurchikhin Grammatikopoulos is the first cosmonaut of Greek descent. F

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Fyodor managed to be included in 4 space travels, with the latter being the launch from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on the early morning of May 29th 2013. He has in total spent more than 340 days in space.

Fyodor was born at January 3rd 1959 in Batoumi Georgia from parents of Greek – pontiaki descent, Nikolai and Mikroula Grammatikopoulou, who both live in Sindos.

He has been awarded with the «Hero of the Russian Federation» metal,thw metal “Order of Friendship”, the NASA metal “ NASA Space Flight Medal” and various other metals from the Cosmonaut Federation.

Source: Ellines.com


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By Stergos Kastelloriou



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