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Yuri Aleksandrovich Letunov Russian Journalist Cosmonaut. Born 26 October 1926. Died 30 July 1983.

Personal: Male, Married. Born in Tomsk, Tomsk, Russia. Heart attack. Civilian Television Journalist. Civilian Television Journalist, working at Gostelradio.

Astronaut Career

Astronaut Group: Journalist Group - 1965. Deceased Entered space service: 27 July 1965. Left space service: 1966. Selected in June 1965 for a Voskhod journalist flight, but did not go into official cosmonaut training.

Worked as a news reporter for Soviet television. He retired after a first heart attack in 1978 and worked as a writer.

Letunov Chronology

1 January 1965 - Journalist Cosmonaut Training Group selected.. The group was selected to provide trainees for a planned Voskhod spaceflight made with a journalist aboard.

30 July 1983 - Cosmonaut Yuri Aleksandrovich Letunov dies at age of 56 -- Natural causes..

Bibliography:

Becker, Joachim, http://www.spacefacts.de/, "Space Facts Web Site", Web Address when accessed: http://www.spacefacts.de/.

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