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Viktor Petrovich Savinykh Russian Engineer Cosmonaut. Born 7 March 1940.

Personal: Male, Married, One child. Born in Berezkiny, Kirov , Russia. Korolev Design Bureau Graduated from Moscow State University of Geodesy and Cartography, 1969. Candidate of technical sciences degree, 1985. Doctorate of technical sciences degree, 1990. Civilian Engineer, Energia NPO.

Astronaut Career

Astronaut Group: Energia Engineer Group 5 - 1978. Inactive Entered space service: 1 December 1978. Left space service: 9 February 1989. Number of Flights: 3.00. Total Time: 252.73 days. Number of EVAs: 1.00. Total EVA Time: 0.21 days.

Rector, Moscow State University of Geodesy and Cartography and Institute of Aerophotogrammetry.

Tennis, swimming.

Savinykh Spaceflight Log

  • 12 March 1981 Flight: Salyut 6 EO-6. Flight Up: Soyuz T-4. Flight Back: Soyuz T-4. Flight Time: 74.73 days.
  • 6 June 1985 Flight: Salyut 7 EO-4-1a. Flight Up: Soyuz T-13. Flight Back: Soyuz T-14. Flight Time: 168.16 days.
  • 7 June 1988 Flight: Mir EP-2. Flight Up: Soyuz TM-5. Flight Back: Soyuz TM-4. Flight Time: 9.84 days.
Savinykh Chronology

1 December 1978 - Energia Engineer Cosmonaut Training Group 5 selected..

27 November 1980 - Soyuz T-3. Manned three crew. Docked with Salyut 6. Tested the improved transport ship of the 'SOYUZ T' series; transported to the Salyut-6 orbital station a crew consisting of L D Kizim, O G Makarov and G M Strekalov to carry out repair and preventive work and scientific and technical investigation and experiments.
12 March 1981 - Soyuz T-4. Manned two crew. Docked with Salyut 6. Transported to the Salyut-6 orbital station cosmonauts V V Kovalenok and V P Savinykh to carry out repairs and preventive maintenance and scientific and technical investigations and experiments.
26 May 1981 - Landing of Soyuz T-4. Soyuz T-4 landed at 12:37 GMT.
19 August 1982 - Soyuz T-7. Docked with Salyut 7. Carried Svetlana Savitskaya, Leonid Popov, Alexander Serebrov to Salyut 7 to conduct scientific and technical research and experiments.
20 April 1983 - Soyuz T-8. Manned three crew. Unsuccessful mission. Failed to rendezvous with Salyut 7. Recovered April 22, 1983 13:29 GMT. Landed 113 km SE Arkalyk.
8 February 1984 - Soyuz T-10. Manned three crew. Docked with Salyut 7. Transported a crew consisting of ship's commander L D Kizim, flight engineer V A Solovyov and cosmonaut-research O Y Atkov to the SALYUT-7 orbital station to conduct scientific and technical studies and experiments.
17 July 1984 - Soyuz T-12. Docked with Salyut 7. Transported a crew comprising ship's commander V A Dzhanibekov, flight engineer S E Savitskaya and cosmonaut-research I P Volk to the Salyut-7 orbital station to conduct scientific and technical studies and experiments.
1985 March - Soyuz T-13A (cancelled). A mission was planned from 1982 to operate the military experiments aboard TKS-3 after it had docked with Salyut 7. Salyut 7 problems resulted in a complete breakdown of the TKS-3 plans and the crew was split-up and launched on two seperate flights.
6 June 1985 - Soyuz T-13. Docked with Salyut 7. Delivered to the Salyut-7 orbital station a crew consisting of flight commander V A Dzhanibekov and flight engineer V P Savinykh to carry out emergency repairs to inert Salyut 7 station and to conduct scientific and technical research and experiments.
2 August 1985 - EVA Salyut 7 EO-4-1. Installed solar array.
21 November 1985 - Landing of Soyuz T-14. Soyuz T-14 landed at 10:31 GMT with the crew of Savinykh, Vasyutin and Volkov Aleksandr aboard.
22 July 1987 - Soyuz TM-3. Manned three crew. Transported to the Mir orbital space station a Soviet-Syrian crew comprising cosmonauts A S Viktorenko, A P Aleksandrov and M A Faris to conduct joint research and experiments with cosmonauts Y Romanenko and A Laveykin. Maneuvered from initial 231 X 217 km orbit to Mir's 311 X 359 km orbit. Docked with rear Mir port at 3:30 GMT 24 July. Undocked with rear port 30 July and docked to forward port.
7 June 1988 - Soyuz TM-5. Transported to the Mir orbital station a Soviet/Bulgarian crew comprising cosmonauts A Y Solovyev, V P Savinykh and A P Aleksandrov (Bulgaria) to conduct joint research and experiments with cosmonauts V G Titov and M K Manarov. Interim orbit 343 x 282 km. Maneuvered to Mir's 355 x 349 km orbit. Docked 15:57 GMT 9 June to Mir's aft port. Moved to forward port 18 June.
17 June 1988 - Landing of Soyuz TM-4. Undocked 06:18 GMT 17 June 88. Soyuz TM-4 landed at 10:13 GMT, 202 km from Dzehezkazgan, with the crew of Aleksandrov Aleksandr, Savinykh and Solovyov aboard.
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