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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. 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. Maximum speed 200 kph. Time 14 minutes. 5 October 1985 - Buran Analog BST-02 taxi test 3. Maximum speed 270 kph. Time 12 minutes. 15 October 1985 - Buran Analog BST-02 taxi test 4. Maximum speed 300 kph. 10 November 1985 - Buran Analog BST-02 flight 1. Maximum speed 480 kph. Maximum altitude 1500 m. Time 12 minutes. 15 November 1985 - Buran Analog BST-02 taxi test 5. Maximum speed 170 kph. Time 12 minutes. 3 January 1986 - Buran Analog BST-02 flight 2. Maximum speed 520 kph. Maximum altitude 3000 m. Time 36 minutes. 27 May 1986 - Buran Analog BST-02 flight 3. Maximum speed 540 kph. Maximum altitude 4000 m. Time 23 minutes. 11 June 1986 - Buran Analog BST-02 flight 4. Maximum speed 530 kph. Maximum altitude 4000 m. Time 22 minutes. 10 December 1986 - Buran Analog BST-02 flight 7. First automatic landing from 4000 m altitude. Time 24 minutes. 23 December 1986 - Buran Analog BST-02 flight 8. Time 17 minutes. 16 February 1987 - Buran Analog BST-02 flight 10. Time 28 minutes. 25 February 1987 - Buran Analog BST-02 flight 11. Time 19 minutes. 25 June 1987 - Buran Analog BST-02 flight 13. Time 19 minutes. 16 January 1988 - Buran Analog BST-02 flight 16. 4 March 1988 - Buran Analog BST-02 flight 19. Time 32 minutes. 2 April 1988 - Buran Analog BST-02 flight 23. Time 20 minutes. 8 April 1988 - Buran Analog BST-02 flight 24. 15 April 1988 - Buran Analog BST-02 flight 25. 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). 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. 9 September 1990 - Cosmonaut Rimantas Antanas-Antonovich Stankiavicius dies at age of 46 -- Crash of Su-27 fighter at air show at Treviso, Italy.. Contact us with any corrections, additions, or comments. Conditions for use of drawings, pictures, or other materials from this site.. To contact astronauts or cosmonauts. © Mark Wade, 1997 - 2008 except where otherwise noted. |
