Mirosław Hermaszewski

19.11.2016. Gen. Mirosław Hermaszewski. PAP/Leszek Szymański

Poland's only astronaut Mirosław Hermaszewski dies at 81

Mirosław Hermaszewski, the first and only Polish astronaut, has died at 81. Hermaszewski, born in 1941 in Volhynia, flew into space aboard the Soviet Soyuz ship in June 1978.

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