site.btaApril 10, 1979: First Bulgarian in Space
First Bulgarian cosmonaut Georgi Ivanov (right) and Soviet cosmonaut Nikolay Rukavishnikov, Baikonur, Kazakhstan, April 10, 1979 (BTA Archive Photo/Bozhidar Todorov)
On April 10, 1979, Bulgaria became the world's sixth nation to put a person in outer space, after the USSR, the US, Czechoslovakia, Poland and East Germany and ahead of France, India, Japan, Britain and China. On this date, Bulgarian Pilot Cosmonaut
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