Home›Soviet Union and Russia›Selection Year›By Decade›1960sBrowse By1960sThis dimension groups astronauts by the year they were selected into their agency's astronaut corps, which is often years before their first flight. Wikipedia notes that astronaut training and selection has historically been run "exclusively by governments, either by the military or by civilian space agencies." Browsing by selection year lets a visitor compare astronauts chosen in the same intake.Facts1960sSourcesComments (0)Reader Challenges (0)FactsComparisonField Origin EraWell-attested1961 11960sFilter Results28 entriesNation / ProgramAllMir and Space Station Cosmonauts (1)Soyuz and Salyut Cosmonauts (13)Vostok and Voskhod Cosmonauts (14)AgencyAllInterkosmos (1)Soviet space program (28)Astronaut RoleAllCommander (12)Flight Engineer (6)Pilot (3)Research Cosmonaut (2)Number of FlightsAll1 (8)2 (7)3 (8)NationalityAllBelarus (1)Russia (7)Soviet Union (23)Ukraine (1)Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic (1)Birth YearAll1921 (1)1925 (1)1926 (1)1927 (1)1928 (1)1929 (1)1930 (1)1931 (1)1933 (2)1934 (5)1935 (4)1937 (3)1939 (1)1941 (2)1942 (3)Associated WithAllInterkosmos (1)NASA (1)Roscosmos (2)Soviet space program (28)Show ResultsBrowseCompareSelect all 28Alexei Leonov1960sAlexei Yeliseyev1960sAndriyan Nikolayev1960sBoris Volynov1960sBoris Yegorov1960sGeorgi Beregovoi1960sGeorgi Grechko1960sGeorgy Dobrovolsky1960sGherman Titov1960sIrina Solovyova1960sKonstantin Feoktistov1960sLeonid Kizim1960sPavel Belyayev1960sPavel Popovich1960sPyotr Klimuk1960sTatyana Kuznetsova1960sValentin Lebedev1960sValentina Ponomaryova1960sValentina Tereshkova1960sValery Bykovsky1960sValery Kubasov1960sViktor Patsayev1960sVitaly Sevastyanov1960sVladimir Kovalyonok1960sVladimir Shatalov1960sVladislav Volkov1960sYuri Gagarin1960sZhanna Yorkina1960sSources1. Wikipedia: Yuri Gagarintier 2Wikimedia FoundationYuri Gagarin, lead sectionQuote, Yuri Gagarin, lead sectionTravelling on Vostok 1, Gagarin completed one orbit of Earth on 12 April 1961.View the SourceComments (0)No comments yet. Be the first to share a thought.Sign in to join the discussion.Reader Challenges (0)No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.Sign in to dispute this or suggest a correction.