Tag: Romanian cosmonauts

Today 14 May 2017 we celebrate 36 years since the first Romanian flew in space. Dumitru-Dorin Prunariu flew on a Soyuz 40 spacecraft and a Salyut 6 space laboratory together with another Romanian cosmonaut, Dumitru Dediu. Prunariu was born in 1952 in Brasov and graduated from the Politehnica University of Bucharest with a degree in…