Vladim�r Remek - (born 26th September 1948) - the first Czechoslovak cosmonaut. After the USSR and the USA, Czechoslovakia thanks to him became the third countries whose citizens were delivered to orbit the Earth.

Vladim�r Remek was born in the Czech Budejovice. His father was a Slovak, a native of Zilina, who served as an Air Force general Czechoslovak People's Army. His mother came from Czech Budejovice.

In 1966 Remek graduated from high school in town and joined the Higher Aviation School in Kosice, where he flew jet training aircraft L - 29 Delfin. In 1970 he joined as a fighter pilot for the air service in the Czech Budejovice. Two years later he began studying at the Air Force Academy Yuri Gagarin in Moscow and soon after her graduation in 1976 ranked among the twenty-five candidates selected for space flight. He was to take place first in the Intercosmos program. Shortlisted Remek is ranked along with the military airmen Ladislav Klima, Michael Vondrou�kem and Ulrich Pel��k. The final training after the tests in Star City outside Moscow eventually nominated Czech-Russian pair with Remek and Gubarev Pel��k with Rukavi�nikovem. In February 1978 came from Prague decisions that under the Czechoslovak side into orbit looks Vladim�r Remek. Flight commander was Alexei Gubarev.

Rocket propelled spacecraft to orbit Soyuz 28 March 2, 1978 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Soon afterward, the ship joined the Salyut orbital complex, where astronauts spent eight days in the company's core crew, which consisted of Yuri Romanenko and Georgy Grechko. On the ground Remek with Gubarev returned on March 10, 1978.

Czechoslovak cosmonaut immediately became a celebrity and has 27 April 1978 received the national award Hero of Czechoslovakia. With the help of Karl Richter wrote in the 1979 book Under our planet Earth. In the same year, then came another book title hope, below which is copyrighted Remek signed together with Alexei Gubarev.

From 1978 to 1985 he worked Vladim�r Remek in military research centers in Prague - Kbely, then graduated from the Military Academy of the General Staff of the USSR in Moscow, where he graduated in 1988. Soon he was employed as a military pilot CSLA, during the years 1990 to 1995 he served as director of the Military Air and Space Museum in Prague. In 1995 he left the army and was engaged in commercial enterprises focused on the Russian market. In June 2004 he became a Member of the European Parliament as an independent candidate for the Communist Party.