Arkady Ilyich Ostashev (Russian: Аркадий Ильич Осташев; 30 September 1925 – 12 July 1998) was an Soviet-Russian mechanical engineer who participated in the launch of sputnik and later the first cosmonaut. He was a Candidate of Technical Sciences, docent, laureate of the Lenin and state prizes, senior test pilot of missiles and space-rocket complexes of OKB-1 as well as a companion of Sergey Korolev, the head of the Soviet space program.
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30 September 1925 village Maly Vasilyev, Noginsky District, Moscow Oblast, USSR
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Died |
12 July 1998 (aged 72) Moscow, Russian Federation
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Zodiac | Libra |
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