Georgy Dobrovolsky, Soviet Ukrainian pilot and astronaut (died 1971)

Georgy Dobrovolsky

Soviet cosmonaut (1928–1971)

Georgy Timofeyevich Dobrovolsky was a Soviet cosmonaut who commanded the three-man crew of the Soyuz 11 spacecraft. They became the world's first space station crew aboard Salyut 1, but died of asphyxiation because of an accidentally opened valve. They were the first and only…