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Personal: Male. Born in Moscow, Moscow, Russia. Crash of a Tu-144 supersonic transport during an aviation demonstration in Le Bourget. Tupolev Design Bureau Graduated from the Zhukovsky military engineering academy, Moscow, 1950. KB Tupolev, test pilot. Worked as an engineer and senior test pilot. Flew MiG-21 Tu-144 wing testbed. Astronaut Career Astronaut Group: Voskhod Group - 1964. Deceased Entered space service: 1 June 1964. Left space service: 2 July 1964. Proposed on 29 June 1964 as cosmonaut for Voskhod flights (no official selection).
Benderov Chronology 26 May 1964 - Voskhod Cosmonaut Training Group selected.. The group was selected toprovide payload specialists and physicians for Voskhod spaceflights.. Qualifications: Engineers, scientists, or physicians nominated by their parent organizations; under 40 years of age; under 170 cm tall; under 70 kg in weight.. In 1963 it was decided to fly the Voskhod multi-seat spacecraft. There followed a chaotic struggle between the commander of the Soviet cosmonaut team, Kamanin, and leaders of other military and civilian scientific and engineering organisations over who would fly on these missions. The training group for the first Voskhod 3-seat mission included: 20 June 1964 - Voskhod sitting height limitation. It is discovered that three of the candidates for Voskhod flights cannot fit in the seats that will be fitted to the capsule. Katys and Benderov have sitting heights of 95 cm, and Demin, 98 cm. All of the rest are under the 90 cm limit. They will have to be removed from training. 2 July 1964 - Voskhod and Soyuz crewing. Benderov has been washed out of training after haemorrhaging excessively during centrifuge training, and Polyakov after reacting poorly to the barometric chamber. This leaves only seven cosmonauts in training for the first mission: Volynov, Katys, Komarov, Yegorov, Sorokin, Lazarev, and Feoktistov. The first six are qualified for flight, but Feoktistiov cannot be admitted for parachute or flight training; his visual acuity is only 0.3. Later the cosmonaut party collective meets to take up the problem of Titov. He has made many errors: he drives and flies too fast, he has bad marital relations. But he is known not only to the entire country, but to the whole world. To disgrace him would not reflect only on him, but on all of the cosmonauts and the Soviet Union. Therefore it is finally decided not to take any public action, but to switch him and Beregovoi in the training order for the fourth Soyuz flight. Later Finogenov, head of the VVS range at Vladimirovka, informs Kamanin that flight trials of the new combination parachute/soft landing system will be delayed at least two weeks after the failure of one of the parachute canopy rings in static test. 3 June 1973 - Cosmonaut Vladimir Nikolaevich Benderov dies at age of 48 -- Crash in Tu-144.. Bibliography:
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