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Aleksei Anatoyevich Grechanik Russian Engineer Cosmonaut. Born 25 March 1939. Personal: Male. Born in Moscow, Russia. Chelomei Design Bureau Civilian Engineer, Chelomei OKB. Astronaut Career Astronaut Group: Almaz Engineer Group 3 - 1978. Inactive Entered space service: 1 December 1978. Left space service: 8 April 1987. Trained for a flight to the Almaz space station. Engineer at the Kosmos Pavillon in Moscow. Grechanik Chronology 1 December 1978 - Almaz Engineer Cosmonaut Training Group 3 selected.. The group was selected to provide flight engineers for planned Almaz military space station missions. 1981 Late - TKS-3 (cancelled). Assignment: Proposed Backup Crew. Flight: TKS-3. Third TKS flight that would have docked with the cancelled Almaz OPS 4 military space station. The spacecraft was instead flown unmanned to Salyut 7 as Cosmos 1686. Bibliography and Further Reading - Becker, Joachim, http://www.spacefacts.de/, "Space Facts Web Site", . Joachim Becker's outstanding collection of facts and photos of astronauts and cosmonauts. Accessed at: http://www.spacefacts.de/.
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