Pavel Belyayev, born June 26, 1925 in the former Soviet Union, made space history when he commanded the Voskhod 2 mission, which involved the first spacewalk ever. In March 1965, Belyayev and fellow cosmonaut Alexey Leonov launched in Voskhod 2. Leonov made the first successful EVA.
Belyayev had to perform a manual re-entry when the automatic system failed. It took time for him to perform the maneuver, and it caused them to overshoot their landing position by 2000 km.
Belyayev was scheduled to fly the Voskhod 8 mission but it was cancelled.
He died in 1970 from peritonitis.
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