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Anatoli Yakovlevich

USSR

Personal data

Birthdate:  16.01.1948
Birthplace:  Riga, Latvian SSR
Marital status:  married
Children:  two
Selection date:  23.08.1976
Selection group:  TsPK-6
Position:  Test Cosmonaut (TC)
Status:  Ret. 02.02.1999

Spaceflights

No. Mission Position Time Duration
1  Soyuz TM-5 / Soyuz TM-4  Commander  07.06.1988 - 17.06.1988 9d 20h 09m 
2  Soyuz TM-9 / Mir-6  Commander / Mir-Commander  11.02.1990 - 09.08.1990 179d 01h 17m 
3  Soyuz TM-15 / Mir-12  Commander / Mir-Commander  27.07.1992 - 01.02.1993 188d 21h 39m 
4  STS-71 Atlantis/ Mir-19 / Soyuz TM-21  MS / Mir-Commander  27.06.1995 - 11.09.1995 75d 11h 20m 
5  Soyuz TM-26 / Mir-24  Commander / Mir-Commander  05.08.1997 - 19.02.1998 197d 17h 33m 
6        
7        
Total  650d 23h 58m 
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Backup assignments

No. Mission Position
1  Soyuz TM-3  Commander
2  Soyuz TM-8  Commander
3  Soyuz TM-14  Commander
4  Soyuz TM-21  Commander

Additional information

Graduated from Lenin Komsomol Chernigov Higher Military Aviation School, 1972; Colonel and test pilot, Soviet Air Force, Res.; was seleceted as cosmonaut on 01.12.1978 (TsPK-6); OKP (cosmonaut basic training): 23.08.1976 - 30.01.1979, he served also as double for several Soyuz flights; retired from active duty in 1999.

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