Mazur Papp

Mazur Papp is a Hungarian-born astronaut and engineer. He was born in 1938 and graduated from the University of Technology in Budapest. Papp worked as an engineer for several years before being selected as an astronaut for the Soviet space program. He flew on the Vostok 1 mission in 1962 and became the first person to orbit the Earth. Papp has also worked as a professor and has written several books on space exploration.