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Anatoli Pavlovich Artsebarsky Russian Pilot Cosmonaut. Born 9 September 1956.

Personal: Male. Born in Prosyanaya, Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine. Soviet Air Force Graduated from Air Force Institute in 1977. Soviet Air Force Soviet Air Force.

Astronaut Career

Astronaut Group: Buran Group 2 - 1985. Inactive Entered space service: 2 September 1985. Left space service: 28 July 1994. Number of Flights: 1.00. Total Time: 144.64 days. Number of EVAs: 6.00. Total EVA Time: 1.33 days. Cosmonaut training from November 1985 - December 1987. GKNII Buran Test Pilot, 1985-1987. Transferred to TsPK, 1987. Left cosmonaut corps for medical reasons. Call sign: Ozon (Ozone).

Worked on the development of future space station-structures. From June 2000, Vice President of the Russian Cosmonaut Federation.

Artsebarsky Spaceflight Log

  • 18 May 1991 Flight: Mir EO-9. Flight Up: Soyuz TM-12. Flight Back: Soyuz TM-12. Flight Time: 144.64 days.
Artsebarsky Chronology

1 August 1985 - Buran Cosmonaut Training Group 2 selected.. Experienced test pilots were selected to train for manned missions using the Buran space shuttle.

2 December 1990 - Soyuz TM-11. Docked with Mir. Mir Expedition EO-08. Transported to the Mir manned orbital station the international crew consisting of the cosmonauts V M Afanasyev, M Kh Manarov, and T Akiyami (Japan) for the purpose of carrying out joint work with the cosmonauts G M Manakov and G M Strekalov. Launched jointly with the private Japanese company TBS. The Japanese television network ended up paying $ 28 million for the first commercial flight to Mir to put Akiyama, the first journalist in space aboard Soyuz TM-11. Akiyama made daily television broadcasts.
18 May 1991 - Soyuz TM-12. Docked with Mir. Mir Expedition EO-09. Carried Anatoli Artsebarski, Sergei Krikalev, Helen Sharman to Mir; returned Artsebarski, crew of Soyuz TM 8 to Earth. Second commercial flight with paying British passenger. Sponsoring British consortium was not quite able to come up with money, however. Flight continued at Soviet expense with very limited UK experiments.
25 June 1991 - EVA Mir EO-9-1. Replaced Kurs docking system antenna.
28 June 1991 - EVA Mir EO-9-2. Attached TREK cosmic ray collector to exterior of station.
15 July 1991 - EVA Mir EO-9-3. Began Sofora girder construction. Sofora mounting platform installed.
19 July 1991 - EVA Mir EO-9-4. Began assembly of Sofora girder.
23 July 1991 - EVA Mir EO-9-5. Continued assembly of Sofora girder.
27 July 1991 - EVA Mir EO-9-6. Completed assembly of Sofora girder.
10 October 1991 - Landing of Soyuz TM-12. Soyuz TM-12 landed at 04:11 GMT with the crew of Artsebarsky, Aubakirov and Viehboeck aboard.
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