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Aleksandr Nikolayevich Balandin Russian Engineer Cosmonaut. Born 30 July 1953.

Personal: Male, Married, Two children. Born in Frayzino, Moscow, Russia. Korolev Design Bureau Graduated from Bauman-Higher School in Moscow with a diploma in engineering, 1976 Civilian Engineer, Energia NPO.

Astronaut Career

Astronaut Group: Energia Engineer Group 5 - 1978. Inactive Entered space service: 1 December 1978. Left space service: 17 October 1994. Number of Flights: 1.00. Total Time: 179.05 days. Number of EVAs: 2.00. Total EVA Time: 0.45 days. Left cosmonaut corps for medical reasons.

Worked at NPO Energia until 1994. Then President of Lendint-Association until 2000.

Balandin Spaceflight Log

  • 11 February 1990 Flight: Mir EO-6. Flight Up: Soyuz TM-9. Flight Back: Soyuz TM-9. Flight Time: 179.05 days.
Balandin Chronology

1 December 1978 - Energia Engineer Cosmonaut Training Group 5 selected..

5 September 1989 - Soyuz TM-8. Manned two crew. Mir Expedition EO-05. Docked with Mir 8 September. Transported to the Mir orbital station a team consisting of A S Viktorenko, commander of the spacecraft, and A A Serebrov, on-board engineer, to carry out scientific and technological research and experiments. Flight cost 80 million rubles. Expected return 25 million rubles net profit.
11 February 1990 - Soyuz TM-9. Manned two crew. Mir Expedition EO-06. Docked with Mir. Transported to the Mir orbital station a crew comprising the cosmonauts A Y Solovyov and A N Balandin to conduct an extensive programme of geophysical and astrophysical research, experiments on biology and biotechnology and work on space materials science.
17 July 1990 - EVA Mir EO-6-1. Repaired Soyuz TM-9 insulation rip.
26 July 1990 - EVA Mir EO-6-2. Dismantled equipment. Temporarily closed damaged hatch.
9 August 1990 - Landing of Soyuz TM-9. Soyuz TM-9 landed at 07:35 GMT, 70 km from Arkalyk at 50 deg 51'E 67 deg 17' N.
1991 December - Soyuz Buran Support (cancelled). Planned Soyuz flight to Mir. Main purpose was to provide spaceflight experience to Bachurin and Borodai, who had been selected as back-up crew of the first manned Buran flight. Cancelled in cut-backs after fall of the Soviet Union.
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Soyuz TM-9
Baladin and Solovyov aboard Mir....
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