Soviet-era cosmonaut Georgy Grechko, who in 1977 performed the first spacewalk using a Russian spacesuit design still in use today on the International Space Station, has died. He was 85. Grechko flew on three missions to Russia’s Salyut space stations.
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Duane Graveline, a medical doctor who was among NASA’s first scientist-astronauts, but who resigned for personal reasons after just six months, died Sep. 5. He was 85.
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