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Personal: Male, Married, Two children. Born in Varna, Bulgaria. Bulgarian Air Force Graduated from Air Force School Bulgarian Air Force. Pilot, Bulgarian Air Force. Astronaut Career Astronaut Group: International Group - 1987. Inactive Entered space service: 8 January 1987. Left space service: 17 June 1988. Listening to music, sports, reading.
Stoyanov Chronology 8 January 1987 - International Cosmonaut Training Group selected.. Training group of backup Bulgarian guest cosmonaut for a propaganda flights to the Mir space station. This was a 'compensation mission', since the first Bulgarian mission never reached the station due to a primary engine failure aboard the Soyuz shuttle. 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. Bibliography:
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