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cosmonaut; Voskhod I Voskhod 1 cosmonauts (left to right) commander Vladimir Komarov, doctor Boris Yegorov, and engineer Konstantin Feoktistov on their way to the launchpad, October 12, 1964. Because of the cramped dimensions of the spacecraft, they wore no space suits.

Boris Borisovich Yegorov

Soviet physician
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November 26, 1937, Moscow, Russia, U.S.S.R.
Died:
September 12, 1994, Moscow, Russia (aged 56)
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aerospace medicine
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Boris Borisovich Yegorov (born November 26, 1937, Moscow, Russia, U.S.S.R.—died September 12, 1994, Moscow, Russia) was a Soviet physician who, with cosmonauts Vladimir M. Komarov and Konstantin P. Feoktistov, was a participant in the first multimanned spaceflight, that of Voskhod (“Sunrise”) 1, on October 12–13, 1964, and was also the first practicing physician in space. Upon graduating in 1961 from the First Medical Institute, Moscow, Yegorov joined the team of physicians who studied medical telemetry data from Soviet spaceflights. An expert on the sense-of-balance mechanism in the inner ear, he began training for the Voskhod 1 flight during the summer ...(100 of 203 words)

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