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Rimantas Antanas-Antonovich Stankiavicius Lithuanian Pilot Cosmonaut. Born 26 July 1944. Died 9 September 1990. Personal: Male, Married, Two children. Born in Kapsukas, Lithuania. Crash of Su-27 fighter at air show at Treviso, Italy. Astronaut Career Astronaut Group: Buran Group - 1978, MAP Group 1 - 1981. Deceased Entered space service: 1 January 1977. Left space service: 9 September 1990. Buran Test Pilot, Died 9/9/90. Stankiavicius Chronology 29 December 1984 - Buran Analog BST-02 taxi test 1. Assignment: Prime Crew. Maximum speed 45 kph. Time 5 minutes. Thereafter to PRSO test stand for full-scale equipment tests; then to PDST pilot-dynamics test stand for further tests. 2 August 1985 - Buran Analog BST-02 taxi test 2. Assignment: Prime Crew. Maximum speed 200 kph. Time 14 minutes. 5 October 1985 - Buran Analog BST-02 taxi test 3. Assignment: Prime Crew. Maximum speed 270 kph. Time 12 minutes. 15 October 1985 - Buran Analog BST-02 taxi test 4. Assignment: Prime Crew. Maximum speed 300 kph. 10 November 1985 - Buran Analog BST-02 flight 1. Assignment: Prime Crew. Maximum speed 480 kph. Maximum altitude 1500 m. Time 12 minutes. 15 November 1985 - Buran Analog BST-02 taxi test 5. Assignment: Prime Crew. Maximum speed 170 kph. Time 12 minutes. 3 January 1986 - Buran Analog BST-02 flight 2. Assignment: Prime Crew. Maximum speed 520 kph. Maximum altitude 3000 m. Time 36 minutes. 27 May 1986 - Buran Analog BST-02 flight 3. Assignment: Prime Crew. Maximum speed 540 kph. Maximum altitude 4000 m. Time 23 minutes. 11 June 1986 - Buran Analog BST-02 flight 4. Assignment: Prime Crew. Maximum speed 530 kph. Maximum altitude 4000 m. Time 22 minutes. 10 December 1986 - Buran Analog BST-02 flight 7. Assignment: Prime Crew. First automatic landing from 4000 m altitude. Time 24 minutes. 23 December 1986 - Buran Analog BST-02 flight 8. Assignment: Prime Crew. Time 17 minutes. 16 February 1987 - Buran Analog BST-02 flight 10. Assignment: Prime Crew. Time 28 minutes. 25 February 1987 - Buran Analog BST-02 flight 11. Assignment: Prime Crew. Time 19 minutes. 25 June 1987 - Buran Analog BST-02 flight 13. Assignment: Prime Crew. Time 19 minutes. 16 January 1988 - Buran Analog BST-02 flight 16. Assignment: Prime Crew. 4 March 1988 - Buran Analog BST-02 flight 19. Assignment: Prime Crew. Time 32 minutes. 2 April 1988 - Buran Analog BST-02 flight 23. Assignment: Prime Crew. Time 20 minutes. 8 April 1988 - Buran Analog BST-02 flight 24. Assignment: Prime Crew. 15 April 1988 - Buran Analog BST-02 flight 25. Assignment: Prime Crew. Time 19 minutes. Final Buran Analog flight test. At the same time development of the auto-land system aboard the Tu-154 test bed is completed as well. 1989 April - Soyuz TM-8A (cancelled). Assignment: Proposed Prime Crew. Flight: Soyuz TM-8A. Planned flight to ensure continuous occupation cancelled due to budget cutbacks and delay in launching Kvant 2 and Kristall modules. 29 December 1989 - Buran Analog BST-02 taxi test 9. Assignment: Prime Crew. 9 September 1990 - Cosmonaut Rimantas Antanas-Antonovich Stankiavicius dies at age of 46 -- Crash of Su-27 fighter at air show at Treviso, Italy..
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