Boris Yegorov
First physician in space, 1964
Timeline - Yegorov in the record
6 entries from the Secret Dawn - Among the Stars archive, 4 of them events in Yegorov's own life.
Boris Yegorov, son of a distinguished neurosurgeon, trains as a physician and specialises in the vestibular apparatus, the balance organ that space sickness attacks.
Korolev strips a Vostok to cram in three: a pilot, an engineer (Feoktistov) and a physician (Yegorov), flying without pressure suits. The flight lasts 1 day 17 minutes 3 seconds.
Boris Yegorov, aboard Voskhod 1, makes the first in-flight medical observations by a doctor: vestibular function, cardiovascular response, the beginnings of clinical space medicine.
Rejected in 1962 for short sight and admitted only in May 1964, Yegorov flies on Voskhod 1 with Komarov and Feoktistov, making the first medical observations of humans in orbit by a doctor.
Back on Earth, Yegorov heads departments at the IBMP studying the vestibular system and space motion sickness, and from 1984 to 1992 directs an institute, the affliction Titov first suffered and every long crew must overcome.
Yegorov dies in Moscow at 56; married four times, a celebrity-scientist, he embodied the glamour and the science of the early programme.
The research file for this dossier holds 6 verified source entries, 6 of them distinct works. The sources page lists every one of them with what it covers, how it was reached, and the sharpest point at which this page and its sources come apart.