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Vladimir Aleksandrovich Dzhanibekov Russian Pilot Cosmonaut. Born 13 May 1942.

Personal: Male, Married, Two children. Born in Iskander, Tashkent, Uzbekistan. Soviet Air Force Graduated from Higher Military Fighter Pilot School, Yeysk, 1965 Soviet Air Force Major General, Soviet Air Force.

Astronaut Career

Astronaut Group: Air Force Group 5 - 1970. Inactive Entered space service: 27 April 1970. Left space service: 24 June 1986. Number of Flights: 5.00. Total Time: 145.67 days. Number of EVAs: 2.00. Total EVA Time: 0.36 days. First Soviet cosmonaut to fly in space five times. Call sign: Pamir (Pamirs).

Deputy head of TsPK from 1984 to 1986. As of 1999 he was a scientific consultant to TsPK. In retirement took up hot-air ballooning. Birth name: Krysin.

Dzhanibekov Spaceflight Log

  • 10 January 1978 Flight: Salyut 6 EP-1. Flight Up: Soyuz 27. Flight Back: Soyuz 26. Flight Time: 5.96 days.
  • 22 March 1981 Flight: Salyut 6 EP-9. Flight Up: Soyuz 39. Flight Back: Soyuz 39. Flight Time: 7.86 days.
  • 24 June 1982 Flight: Salyut 7 EP-1. Flight Up: Soyuz T-6. Flight Back: Soyuz T-6. Flight Time: 7.91 days.
  • 17 July 1984 Flight: Salyut 7 EP-4. Flight Up: Soyuz T-12. Flight Back: Soyuz T-12. Flight Time: 11.80 days.
  • 6 June 1985 Flight: Salyut 7 EO-4-1b. Flight Up: Soyuz T-13. Flight Back: Soyuz T-13. Flight Time: 112.13 days.
Dzhanibekov Chronology

24 March 1970 - Only nine of 16 cosmonaut-finalists cleared by the KGB and Communist Party. Kamanin reports that only nine of 16 cosmonaut-candidates that completed the arduous selection process have been cleared by the KGB and Communist Party for actual acceptance for cosmonaut training. He feels this makes the whole time-consuming selection process a waste of time. The VVS is reluctant to submit officers as cosmonaut candidates, fearing that if they fail the vestibular table tests they will not only be rejected as cosmonauts, but be unable to return to flight duty with the Air Force. The result is a final selection of dullards, who are not intellectual, or literary, or sports enthusiasts, who are poor readers and not really interested in spaceflight or cosmonautics. The final decree has been issued reorganising TsUKOS as GUKOS.

27 April 1970 - Soviet Air Force Cosmonaut Training Group 5 selected..
30 April 1970 - Pressure on cosmonauts for more public relations tasks.. Kamanin notes that the 27 April decree has selected only nine new cosmonauts from 300 pilot and 100 engineer candidates. He believes at least 30 should have been selected. Currently there are only 18 active cosmonauts, but Kamanin feels he needs at least 100, just to cover all the public relations appearance demands made on them.
2 December 1974 - Soyuz 16. ASTP Manned Test Flight. Check-out of the Soyuz space craft's on-board systems which had been modernized to meet the requirements of the 1975 joint flight in accordance with the programme of the Soviet-United States experiment; conduct of scientific and technical investigations.
15 July 1975 - Soyuz 19 (ASTP). Soyuz 19 initial orbital parameters were 220.8 by 185.07 kilometres, at the desired inclination of 51.80°, while the period of the first orbit was 88.6 minutes. On 17 July the two spacecraft docked. The crew members rotated between the two spacecraft and conducted various mainly ceremonial activities. Leonov was on the American side for 5 hours, 43 minutes, while Kubasov spent 4:57 in the command and docking modules.

After being docked for nearly 44 hours, Apollo and Soyuz parted for the first time and were station-keeping at a range of 50 meters. The Apollo crew placed its craft between Soyuz and the sun so that the diameter of the service module formed a disk which blocked out the sun. After this experiment Apollo moved towards Soyuz for the second docking.

Three hours later Apollo and Soyuz undocked for the second and final time. The spacecraft moved to a 40 m station-keeping distance so that an ultraviolet absorption experiment could be performed. With all the joint flight activities completed, the ships went on their separate ways.

1977 November - Soyuz 26A (cancelled). Planned mission to Salyut 6 that would make first docking with rear docking port and be the first crew to swap spacecraft and return in the spacecraft that ferried the Soyuz 25 crew. But after Soyuz 25 failed to dock with Salyut 6 and Soyuz 26 as finally flown had quite a different crew and mission profile.
10 January 1978 - Soyuz 27. Manned two crew. Carried Oleg Makarov, Vladimir Dzhanibekov to Salyut 6; returned crew of Soyuz 26 to Earth. Docked with Salyut 6.
16 January 1978 - Landing of Soyuz 26. Soyuz 26 landed at 11:25 GMT with the crew of Dzhanibekov and Makarov aboard.
26 May 1980 - Soyuz 36. Transported the fifth international crew under the INTERCOSMOS programme, comprising V N Kubasov (USSR) and B Farkas (Hungary) to the Salyut-6 station to carry out scientific research and experiments.
22 March 1981 - Soyuz 39. Manned two crew. Docked with Salyut 6. Transported to the Salyut-6 orbital station the eighth international crew under the INTERCOSMOS programme, comprising V A Dzhanibekov (USSR) and Z. Gurragchi (Mongolian People's Republic) to conduct scientific investigations and experiments.
30 March 1981 - Landing of Soyuz 39. Soyuz 39 landed at 11:41 GMT.
24 June 1982 - Soyuz T-6. Manned three crew. Docked with Salyut 7. Transported to the Salyut-7 orbital station the Soviet-French international crew, comprising V A Dzhanibekov (USSR), A S Ivanchenkov (USSR) and Jean-Loup Chretien (France) to conduct scientific research and experiments.
2 July 1982 - Landing of Soyuz T-6. Soyuz T-6 landed at 14:19 GMT.
17 July 1984 - Soyuz T-12. Docked with Salyut 7. Transported a crew comprising ship's commander V A Dzhanibekov, flight engineer S E Savitskaya and cosmonaut-research I P Volk to the Salyut-7 orbital station to conduct scientific and technical studies and experiments.
25 July 1984 - EVA Salyut 7 EP-4-1. Conducted welding experiments.
29 July 1984 - Landing of Soyuz T-12. Soyuz T-12 landed at 12:55 GMT.
6 June 1985 - Soyuz T-13. Docked with Salyut 7. Delivered to the Salyut-7 orbital station a crew consisting of flight commander V A Dzhanibekov and flight engineer V P Savinykh to carry out emergency repairs to inert Salyut 7 station and to conduct scientific and technical research and experiments.
2 August 1985 - EVA Salyut 7 EO-4-1. Installed solar array.
26 September 1985 - Landing of Soyuz T-13. Soyuz T-13 landed at 09:51 GMT with the crew of Dzhanibekov and Grechko aboard.
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