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Aleksandr Fyodorovich

USSR

Personal data

Birthdate:  30.10.1953
Birthplace:  Cheremkhovo, Irkutsk Oblast, Russian SFSR
Marital status:  married
Children:  one
Selection date:  25.01.1989
Selection group:  NPOE-9
Position:  Test Cosmonaut (TC)
Status:  Ret. 25.03.2004

Spaceflights

No. Mission Position Time Duration
1  Soyuz TM-16 / Mir-13  Flight Engineer  24.01. - 22.07.1993 179d 00h 43m 
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Total  179d 00h 43m 
         

Backup assignments

No. Mission Position
1  Soyuz TM-15  Flight Engineer

Additional information

Graduated from Moscow Aviation Institute, with a mechanical engineering diploma, 1977; Captain, Russian Air Force Res., test engineer at NPO Energiya; was selected as cosmonaut on 25.01.1989 (NPOE-9); OKP (cosmonaut basic training): 4/89 - 1/91; was grounded in 1998 of medical reasons; left the cosmonaut corps on 25.03.2004 and became chief of the deapartment 283 of RKKE.

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