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By The Associated Press / The Bulletin
October 3, 2009
MOSCOW " Former Soviet cosmonaut Pavel Popovich, the sixth man to go into orbit, has died at age 78. Boris Yesin, of the Russian astronaut training center, said Popovich died Wednesday of a stroke in Gurzuf, a resort city in Ukraine.
Popovich was born in Ukraine when it was part of the....