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December 18, 1934: Boris Volynov, the first Jew in space, was born

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Boris Volynov, the first Jew in space, was born in Irkutsk, Siberia, on this date in 1934. He was chosen in 1960 to be one of the Soviet Union’s first cosmonauts, but the uncovering...
The 42-year-old is expected to stay on the International Space Station until the spring of 2020.

Jewish astronaut Jessica Meir shares photos of Israel captured from space

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Jewish astronaut Jessica Meir, 42, shared photos of Israel she took from space. Meir joined the crew of the International Space Station in September and in October became part of the first-ever female spacewalking team. Meir, who...
Jessica Meir in her official NASA portrait. Credit: Robert Markowitz/NASA.

Jewish astronaut part of first female spacewalking team

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The first-ever female spacewalking team, including a Jewish astronaut, exited the International Space Station on Friday. Swedish-American-Israeli Jessica Meir and Christina Koch are repairing a broken part of the station’s solar-power network. Meir became the fourth...