Pyotr Klimuk

Astrobotanist

  • Full Name: Pyotr Ilyich Klimuk (Пётр Ільіч Кліму́к)
  • Affiliation: USSR Space Program
  • Country: Belarus
  • Focus Areas: Early Astrobotany
  • Type: Spaceflight
  • Summary: Pyotr Klimuk is the first Belarusian to perform space travel and is a former Soviet cosmonaut.  Klimuk grew and ate onions grown in Oasis 1M on Soviet Salyut-4 in 1975.  
  • Accolades:
      • One of the first two people to eat a plant (onion) grown in space in 1975.