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Pavel Popovich Pavel Romanovich Popovich (Russian: Павел Романович Попович; born October 5, 1930 in Uzin) was a Cosmonaut who commanded two space flights, Vostok 4 and Soyuz 14. He was the first Ukrainian cosmonaut. In 1960, he was selected as one of a group of twenty air force pilots that would train as the first cosmonauts. He was originally selected to command the Soyuz 2 mission, but following the accident that killed Vladimir Komarov, that mission was launched without a crew. He retired from the space programme in 1982.
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