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Yuri Vassilyevich Malyshev Russian Pilot Cosmonaut. Born 27 August 1941. Died 8 November 1999.

Personal: Male, Married, Two children. Born in Nikolaevsk, Volgograd, Russia. Natural causes. Soviet Air Force Graduated from Higher Air Force Academy Chuguyev, Kharkov, Oblast, 1963. Graduated from Military Academy named after Yuri Gagarin, Monino, 1977. Soviet Air Force. Soviet Air Force.

Astronaut Career

Astronaut Group: Air Force Group 4 - 1967. Deceased Entered space service: 7 May 1967. Left space service: 20 July 1988. Number of Flights: 2.00. Total Time: 11.83 days. Cosmonaut training May 1967 - 18 August 1969. Call sign: Yupiter (Jupiter).

Deputy Commander, Command Department, TsPK.

Malyshev Spaceflight Log

  • 5 June 1980 Flight: Salyut 6 EP-6. Flight Up: Soyuz T-2. Flight Back: Soyuz T-2. Flight Time: 3.93 days.
  • 3 April 1984 Flight: Salyut 7 EP-3. Flight Up: Soyuz T-11. Flight Back: Soyuz T-10. Flight Time: 7.90 days.
Malyshev Chronology

12 April 1967 - Soviet Air Force Cosmonaut Training Group 4 selected..

1967 December - New Spiral cosmonaut team. A new cosmonaut training group for the Spiral spaceplane was established: Titov, Kizim, Kozelskiy, Lyakhov, Malyshev, Petrushenko.
15 September 1976 - Soyuz 22. Surplus Soyuz ASTP spacecraft modified with a multi-spectral camera manufactured by Carl Zeiss-Jena in place of the universal docking apparatus. Eight days were spent photographing the earth. Tested and perfected scientific-technical methods and devices for studying the geological characteristics of the earth's surface from outer space for economic purposes.
5 June 1980 - Soyuz T-2. Test flight of new Soyuz T; docked with Salyut 6. Conducted testing and development of on-board systems in the improved Soyuz T series transport vehicle under piloted conditions.
9 June 1980 - Landing of Soyuz T-2. Soyuz T-2 landed at 12:38 GMT.
1982 First half - Soyuz Almaz 4 (cancelled). Planned Soyuz flight to a dock with the Almaz OPS 4 space station. The mission was cancelled together with the Almaz program in 1981.
3 April 1984 - Soyuz T-11. Manned three crew. Docked with Salyut 7.Transported a Soviet-Indian international crew comprising ship's commander Y V Malyshev, flight engineer G M Strekalov (USSR) and cosmonaut-researcher R Sharma (India) to the SALYUT-7 orbital station to conduct scientific and technical studies and experiments.
11 April 1984 - Landing of Soyuz T-10. Soyuz T-10 landed at 10:50 GMT, 160 km E Dzehezkazgan, with the crew of Malyshev, Sharma and Strekalov aboard.
8 November 1999 - Cosmonaut Yuri Vassilyevich Malyshev dies at age of 58 -- Natural causes..
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