VladimÃr Remek
- Soyuz 28 (1978 )
Vladimír Remek ( born September 26, 1948 in České Budějovice, Czechoslovakia) is a member of the European Parliament for the Czech Republic and a former astronaut. He was the first Czechoslovak and the first non-Soviet or American man in space.
Life
Vladimir Remek is the son of a Slovak and a Czech.
Since 1961 Remek heard in the school radio from the flight of the first man into space, Yuri Gagarin, he wanted to follow there.
From 1966 Remek officer visited the high school of the air forces in Košice. He was to study at the Moscow Military Academy of Air Force, " J. 1972 A. Gagarin " delegated. Remek graduated from the Air Force Academy and served his country as an air force pilot. In 1976 he was selected as a cosmonaut candidate and participated in the Intercosmos program as a military pilot in part. Between 2 and 10 March 1978, he flew as Research Cosmonaut aboard Soyuz 28 for seven days, 22 hours and 17 minutes. As the goal of this mission docked Soyuz spacecraft to the Salyut 6 space station.
Later Remek director of the Museum of aviation and aerospace in Prague and officer of the company " Che - Zet " in Moscow. Then he worked at the Czech Embassy in Russia. In 2004 he was Member of the European Parliament for the party Komunistická strana Čech a Moravy (Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia ) and belongs to the Group of the European Left to.
From January 2014 he is the ambassador of the Czech Republic in Russia.
Vladimír Remek is married and has two children.
Awards
- For his space flight Remek received the honorary title Hero of the Soviet Union.
- On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the first space flight Remek received by Russian President Medvedev the medal " For services to the conquest of space ." ( In the log he was registered as a Slovak. )