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Aleksandr Ivanovich Lazutkin Russian Engineer Cosmonaut. Born 30 October 1957.

Personal: Male, Married, Two children. Born in Moscow, Russia. Korolev Design Bureau Civilian Engineer, Energiya NPO.

Astronaut Career

Astronaut Group: Energia Engineer Group 11 - 1992. Active Entered space service: 3 March 1992. Number of Flights: 1.00. Total Time: 184.92 days.

Lazutkin Spaceflight Log

  • 10 February 1997 Flight: Mir EO-23. Flight Up: Soyuz TM-25. Flight Back: Soyuz TM-25. Flight Time: 184.92 days.
Lazutkin Chronology

3 March 1992 - Energia Engineer Cosmonaut Training Group 11 selected..

21 February 1996 - Soyuz TM-23. Mir Expedition EO-21. Soyuz TM-23 docked with Mir at 14:20:35 on February 23.
17 August 1996 - Soyuz TM-24. Mir Expedition EO-22. Valeriy Korzun and Aleksandr Kaleri of the Russian Space Agency (RKA) Claudie Andre-Deshays of the French space agency CNES. This launch was the first of the Soyuz-U booster with a crew aboard following two launch failures of on unmanned flights. Soyuz docked with Mir's front port at 14:50:21 GMT on August 19; Mir was in a 375 x 390 km x 51.6 deg orbit.

On Feb 7 at 16:28:01 GMT the EO-22 crew and American astronaut Linenger undocked the Soyuz TM-24 ferry from the front docking port, flew it around to the far side of the complex and redocked at the rear Kvant port at 16:51:27 GMT. This cleared the forward port for the arrival of the EO-23 crew, who brought with them German astronaut Reinhold Ewald on Feb 12.

10 February 1997 - Soyuz TM-25. Mir Expedition EO-23. Soyuz TM-25 docked with Mir at the forward port on February 12 at 15:51:13 GMT.
14 August 1997 - Landing of Soyuz TM-25. Following a mission that seemed to consist of an endless series of collisions, breakdowns, fires, and other emergencies, the EO-23 crew handed over the station to EO-24 and on August 14 entered Soyuz TM-25 landed in Kazakstan at 12:17 UTC, 170 km SE of Dzezkazgan. The Soyuz landing rockets failed to fire on touchdown, giving one of the roughest landings experienced by a returning Mir crew.
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