Mirosław Hermaszewski

✶September 15, 1941

†December 12, 2022

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Mirosław Hermaszewski was a Polish cosmonaut, fighter plane pilot, and Polish Air Force officer. He became the first and, at the time of his death in December 2022, only Polish national to ever go to space when he flew aboard the Soviet Soyuz 30 spacecraft in 1978. He was the 89th human to reach outer space.

Polish cosmonaut (1941–2022)

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Biography from the article Mirosław Hermaszewski on the English Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.