On This Day in Space: July 27, 1962, Marks First Zero-G Cosmonaut Training Flight

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28 July 2026 at 5:22 am

On This Day in Space: July 27, 1962, Marks First Zero-G Cosmonaut Training Flight

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On July 27, 1962, two Russian cosmonauts, Andriyan Nikolayev and Pavel Popovich, conducted the first zero-gravity training flight on a modified Soviet Tupolev Tu-104 jetliner. This pioneering training was crucial for their upcoming Vostok 3 and Vostok 4 orbital missions, which marked the first dual spaceflight of two crewed spacecraft.

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