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Personal: Male, Married, Two children. Born in Dushanbe, Tajikistan. Cancer. Soviet Air Force Graduated from Kachinsk Higher Air Force School, 1975 and from a civil test pilot school (Flight Research Center), 1986. Candidate of Technical Sciences degree, 1989. Soviet Air Force Test pilot, Soviet Air Force Astronaut Career Astronaut Group: MAP Group 5 - 1989. Deceased Entered space service: 25 January 1989. Left space service: 27 April 1994. In 1988 he became an exchange pilot in the United States, and decided to stay. He was went to work for Graystone Technology and was waiting for a green permanent resident card. He had hopes of becoming an American test pilot or NASA astronaut.
Prikhodko Chronology 22 March 1989 - MAP Cosmonaut Training Group 5 selected.. The group was selected to provide test pilots for Buran spaceplane. Bibliography:
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