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Aviard Gavrilovich Fastovets Russian Pilot Test Pilot. Born 7 May 1937.

Personal: Male. Born in Kovrov, Vladimir, Russia. Soviet Air Force Soviet Air Force. Soviet Air Force test pilot.

Astronaut Career

Astronaut Group: Test Pilot (USSR). Inactive Entered space service: 1963. Left space service: unknown. Began work informally as ealry as 1963 on the EPOS Spiral spaceplane. Officially designated as a Spiral test pilot from 1965 until 1969. From 1976 - 1978 chief test pilot for the MiG-105 reduced scale version of the Spiral OS spaceplane.

Bibliography:

Becker, Joachim, http://www.spacefacts.de/, "Space Facts Web Site", Web Address when accessed: http://www.spacefacts.de/.

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