Thursday, August 2, 2018

Happy birthday, Hungarian cosmonaut Bertalan Farkas!



Bertalan Farkas, born August 2, 1949 in Hungary, is the first Hungarian cosmonaut.  He went into space once aboard Soyuz 36 with fellow cosmonaut Valeri Kubasov in May 1980 to the Salyut 6 space station.  Farkas spent almost 8 days conducting experiments in material sciences.  They returned to Earth June 3, 1980 aboard Soyuz 35.


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