Editing Pyotr Klimuk (section)

==Life==

Klimuk attended the Leninski Komsomol Chernigov High Aviation School and entered the [[Soviet Air Force]] in 1964. The following year, he was selected to join the space programme.

His first flight was a long test flight on [[Soyuz 13]] in 1973. This was followed by a mission to the [[Salyut 4]] [[space station]] on [[Soyuz 18]] in 1975.

From 1976 he became involved in the [[Intercosmos]] and made his third and final spaceflight on an Intercosmos flight with Polish cosmonaut [[Mirosław Hermaszewski]] on [[Soyuz 30]] in 1978.<ref>[https://archive.today/20120805184533/http://www.windows.ucar.edu/tour/link=/people/astronauts/klimuk.html&nl=7l Pyotr Klimuk]. Windows to the Universe. Windows.ucar.edu. Retrieved on 4 August 2012.</ref><ref>[http://www.spacefacts.de/bios/cosmonauts/english/klimuk_pyotr.htm Biographies of USSR / Russian Cosmonauts: Klimuk]. Spacefacts.de. Retrieved on 4 August 2012.</ref>

He resigned from the cosmonaut team in 1978 to take up a position as the Assistant to the Chief of the [[Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center]]. In 1991 he was promoted to Chief of that facility and remained in that post until retirement in 2003.

Klimuk is a graduate of the [[Gagarin Air Force Academy]] and the [[Lenin Military-Political Academy]].

He is the author of two books on human spaceflight: ''Beside the Stars'', and ''Attack on Weightlessness''.