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Irina Rudolfovna Pronina Russian Engineer Cosmonaut. Born 14 April 1953. Engineer. Personal: Female, Married, Two children. Born in Moscow, Russia. Korolev Design Bureau Graduated from Bauman Moscow Higher Technical School, 1976 Civilian Engineer, Energia NPO. Astronaut Career Astronaut Group: Energia Engineer Group 6 - 1980, Female Group - 1980. Inactive Entered space service: 30 July 1980. Left space service: 23 July 1992. Worked at cosmonaut center, 1989. Later she worked as Chief Engineer in department 292 of NPO Energia, responsible for the Mir Space station. Later assigned to the accounting department of NPO Energia. Pronina Chronology 19 August 1982 - Soyuz T-7. Assignment: Backup Crew. Flight: Salyut 7 EP-2, Salyut 7 EO-1. Docked with Salyut 7. Carried Svetlana Savitskaya, Leonid Popov, Alexander Serebrov to Salyut 7 to conduct scientific and technical research and experiments. 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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