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#OTD , on September 5, 1929 , cosmonaut No. 3, Soviet Air Force Major-General, twice the #HeroOfTheSovietUnion , and participant in the world’s first group spaceflight of two manned spacecraft, #Vostok3 and #Vostok4 — Andriyan Nikolaev — was born. #Nikolaev is the fifth person to have gone into Earth’s orbit. Both of his flights became true milestones in #SpaceExploration