Georgy Beregovoy

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Georgy Beregovoy
Born	(1921-04-15)15 April 1921 Fedorivka, Poltava Oblast, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union (now Ukraine)
Died	30 June 1995(1995-06-30) (aged 74) Moscow, Russia
Occupation	Pilot
Awards	Hero of the Soviet Union (twice)
Space career
Cosmonaut
Rank	Lieutenant General, Soviet Air Forces (1938–1987)
Time in space	3d 22h 50m
Selection	1962
Missions	Soyuz 3
Retirement	1987

Georgy Timofeyevich Beregovoy (Russian: Гео́ргий Тимофе́евич Берегово́й, Ukrainian: Гео́ргій Тимофі́йович Берегови́й; 15 April 1921 – 30 June 1995) was a Soviet cosmonaut who commanded the space mission Soyuz 3 in 1968.^[1] From 1972 to 1987, he headed the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center.

At the time of his space flight, Beregovoy was 47 years of age: he was the earliest-born human to go to orbit, being born three months and three days earlier than the second earliest-born man in orbit – John Glenn, but later than X-15 pilot Joe Walker who made 2 (or 3, according to USAF definition) suborbital space flights.