Georgi Petrovich Katys (russian: Георгий Петрович Катыс; 31 August 1926 7 August 2017) was a
Soviet
The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen nation ...
cosmonaut.
Georgi Katys was born on 31 August 1926. Candidate of technical sciences degree from
Bauman Moscow Higher Technical School,
Moscow
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1953. He was selected as a cosmonaut on 28 May 1964. Later he became the chief of
AN cosmonaut group. He was assigned as for
Voskhod 1
Voskhod 1 (russian: Восход-1, lit=Sunrise-1) was the seventh crewed Soviet space flight. Flown by cosmonauts Vladimir Komarov, Konstantin Feoktistov, and Boris Yegorov, it launched 12 October 1964, and returned on the 13th. Voskhod 1 was ...
.
He was involved in the development of
Lunokhod
Lunokhod ( rus, Луноход, p=lʊnɐˈxot, "Moonwalker") was a series of Soviet robotic lunar rovers designed to land on the Moon between 1969 and 1977. Lunokhod 1 was the first roving remote-controlled robot to land on an extraterrestrial ...
, the Soviet
Moon
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Rover. Since 1984, a Professor at
Moscow State Institute of Radio Engineering, Electronics and Automation. He was also a member of
Russian Academy of Sciences
The Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS; russian: Росси́йская акаде́мия нау́к (РАН) ''Rossíyskaya akadémiya naúk'') consists of the national academy of Russia; a network of scientific research institutes from across ...
and of the Academy of Cosmonautics.
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1926 births
2017 deaths
Soviet cosmonauts
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