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Gennadi Mikhailovich Strekalov Russian Engineer Cosmonaut. Born 28 October 1940. Died 25 December 2004. Survived first pad abort during a manned launch. Flew in space six times.

Personal: Male, Married, Two children. Born in Mytishohi Moscow, Russia. Cancer Korolev Design Bureau Civilian Engineer, Korolev OKB

Astronaut Career

Astronaut Group: Energia Engineer Group 4 - 1973. Deceased Entered space service: 27 March 1973. Left space service: 17 January 1995. Number of Flights: 6.00. Total Time: 268.94 days. Number of EVAs: 6.00. Total EVA Time: 0.90 days.

Civilian Engineer, Korolev OKB. Official NASA Biography - 1997

NAME AND SURNAME: Gennady Mikhailovich Strekalov
Instructor-Test-Cosmonaut and Department Head at RSC Energia. Resides in Kaliningrad, Moscow Region.

PLACE AND DATE OF BIRTH:
26 October 1940, Mytishohi Moscow region, Russia.

PARENTS:
Mikhail Ivanovich Strekalov, Father, perished at the front in 1945. Praskovya Mikhailovna Strekalova (nee Amosova), Mother, resides in Kaliningrad, Moscow Region.

EDUCATION:
Graduated from N.E. Bauman Moscow Higher Technical School in 1965 with an engineer's diploma.

FAMILY STATUS:
Married to Lydia Anatolievna Strekalova (nee Telezhldna). Their daughter, Tatiana, was born in 1974; their daughter, Natalia, in 1975.

HONORS:
Awarded three Orders of Lenin, two Gold Star medals, and the Order of People's Friendship.

WORK EXPERIENCE:
G. M. Strekalov has worked as an engineer at RSC Energia since graduation from the N. E. Bauman Moscow Higher Technical School. He was involved in experimental investigations and testing of space technology. He holds the degree of candidate of technical sciences. He independently developed and released documentation for a series of enterprise-related products. As part of an operations group, he participated in mission control for flights of scientific research vehicles belonging to the Academy of Sciences. In January 1974, he began training as a crew member for a mission aboard the Soyuz spacecraft as a flight engineer and, in 1976, was part of the backup crew of the Soyuz of the Soyuz-22 mission.

Starting October 1978, he underwent flight training to be the flight engineer for a Soyuz expedition to visit the long-term Salyut space station. From 27 November to l0 December 1980, he successfully completed an experimental mission aboard the Soyuz-T-3 spacecraft as a research engineer as part of the crew comprised of L. D. Kizim, O. G. Malcarov, and G. M. Strekalov. During the flight, a docking of the Soyuz-T-3 spacecraft with the Salyut-6-Process-11 orbital complex was accomplished.

From June 1981 to April 1983, he underwent direct flight training to be the flight engineer of the primary expedition for a mission aboard the Soyuz-T spacecraft and the long-term Salyut-7 orbiting station. In the period from 20 - 22 April 1983, he flew aboard the Soyuz T-8 spacecraft as part of a crew comprised of V. G. Titov, G. M. Strekalov, and A. A Screbrov.

From 3 to 11 April 1984, he participated in a third space mission aboard the Salyut-7 orbital scientific-research complex as part of an international Soviet-Indian crew comprised of Yu. V. Malishev, G. M. Strekalov, and R. Sharma, of India.

In the period from 1 August to 10 December 1990, he completed a fourth space fight as flight engineer of the seventh primary expedition to the Soyuz-TM-10 station and the Mir orbital scientific-research complex as part of a crew comprised of G. M. Manakov and G. M. Strekalov.

At the completion of the fourth flight, G. M. Strekalov accumulated 153 days in space.

At present, he is undergoing flight training to be the flight engineer for a primary crew of a Russian-American space flight.

Strekalov Spaceflight Log

  • 27 November 1980 Flight: Salyut 6 EO-5. Flight Up: Soyuz T-3. Flight Back: Soyuz T-3. Flight Time: 12.80 days.
  • 20 April 1983 Flight: Soyuz T-8. Flight Up: Soyuz T-8. Flight Back: Soyuz T-8. Flight Time: 2.01 days.
  • 26 September 1983 Flight: Soyuz T-10-1. Flight Up: Soyuz T-10-1. Flight Back: Soyuz T-10-1. Flight Time: 0.0001 days.
  • 3 April 1984 Flight: Salyut 7 EP-3. Flight Up: Soyuz T-11. Flight Back: Soyuz T-10. Flight Time: 7.90 days.
  • 1 August 1990 Flight: Mir EO-7. Flight Up: Soyuz TM-10. Flight Back: Soyuz TM-10. Flight Time: 130.86 days.
  • 14 March 1995 Flight: Mir EO-18. Flight Up: Soyuz TM-21. Flight Back: STS-71. Flight Time: 115.36 days.
Strekalov Chronology

27 March 1973 - Energia Engineer Cosmonaut Training Group 4 selected..

15 September 1976 - Soyuz 22. Surplus Soyuz ASTP spacecraft modified with a multi-spectral camera manufactured by Carl Zeiss-Jena in place of the universal docking apparatus. Eight days were spent photographing the earth. Tested and perfected scientific-technical methods and devices for studying the geological characteristics of the earth's surface from outer space for economic purposes.
1980 November - Soyuz T-3A (cancelled). Planned but cancelled manned flight. Crew dissolved when Lazarev failed physical in early 1981.
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.
10 December 1980 - Landing of Soyuz T-3. Soyuz T-3 landed at 09:25 GMT.
13 May 1982 - Soyuz T-5. Carried Anatoli Berezovoi, Valentin Lebedev to Salyut 7 to conduct scientific research and experiments; returned crew of Soyuz T-7 to Earth.
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.
22 April 1983 - Landing of Soyuz T-8. Soyuz T-8 landed at 13:29 GMT, 113 km SE of Arkalyk.
27 June 1983 - Soyuz T-9. Manned two crew. Docked with Salyut 7. Transported to the Salyut-7 orbital station a crew consisting of V A Lyakhov, commander of the spacecraft, and A P Aleksandrov, flight engineer, to conduct scientific and technical research and experiments.
26 September 1983 - Soyuz T-10-1. Aborted September 27, 1983 19:38 GMT. Unsuccessful mission. Launch vehicle blew up on pad at Tyuratam; crew saved by abort system.
3 April 1984 - Soyuz T-11. Manned three crew. Docked with Salyut 7.Transported a Soviet-Indian international crew comprising ship's commander Y V Malyshev, flight engineer G M Strekalov (USSR) and cosmonaut-researcher R Sharma (India) to the SALYUT-7 orbital station to conduct scientific and technical studies and experiments.
11 April 1984 - Landing of Soyuz T-10. Soyuz T-10 landed at 10:50 GMT, 160 km E Dzehezkazgan, with the crew of Malyshev, Sharma and Strekalov aboard.
17 September 1985 - Soyuz T-14. Docked with Salyut 7. Transported a crew comprising ship's commander V V Vasyutin, flight engineer G M Grechko and cosmonaut-researcher A A Volkov to the Salyut-7 orbital station to conduct scientific and technical studies and experiments. Grechko returned in Soyuz T-13 on 25 September 1985 - emergency return.
11 February 1990 - Soyuz TM-9. Manned two crew. Mir Expedition EO-06. Docked with Mir. Transported to the Mir orbital station a crew comprising the cosmonauts A Y Solovyov and A N Balandin to conduct an extensive programme of geophysical and astrophysical research, experiments on biology and biotechnology and work on space materials science.
1 August 1990 - Soyuz TM-10. Manned two crew. Docked with Mir. Mir Expedition EO-07. Transported to the Mir manned orbital station the crew consisting of the cosmonauts G M Manakov and G M Strekalov for the purpose of carrying out a programme of geophysical and astrophysical research, biological and biotechnological experiments, and work on space-materials science.
30 October 1990 - EVA Mir EO-7-1. Attempt to repair Kvant 2 hatch.
10 December 1990 - Landing of Soyuz TM-10. Soyuz TM-10 landed at 06:07 GMT, 69 km NW Arkalyk, with the crew of Akiyama, Manakov and Strekalov aboard.
8 January 1994 - Soyuz TM-18. Mir Expedition EO-15. Docked at the Kvant module on January 10 at 11:15 GMT. Transported to the Mir orbital station of a crew comprising the cosmonauts V M Afanasev, Y V Usachev, and V V Polyakov for the fifteenth main expedition.
1 July 1994 - Soyuz TM-19. Mir Expedition EO-16. Soyuz TM-19 docked at the rear port of the Kvant module (vacated by Progress M-23 on July 2) at 13:55:01 GMT on July 3.
14 March 1995 - Soyuz TM-21. Mir Expedition EO-18. Soyuz TM-21 carried the EO-18 Mir crew and American Norman Thagard. Thagard was the first American to be launched in a Soyuz. Soyuz docked with Mir at 07:45:26 GMT on March 16 . On July 4 Soyuz TM-21 undocked and backed off to a distance of 100 m from Mir. The US space shuttle Atlantis, with the EO-18 crew aboard, then undocked and began a flyaround at a distance of 210 m, while the EO-19 crew aboard Soyuz took pictures before redocking with the station. Soyuz TM-21 again undocked with the EO-19 crew on September 11 from the Kvant rear port on Mir and landed at 50 deg 41'N 68 deg 15'E, 108 km northeast of Arkalyk in Kazakhstan, at 06:52:40 GMT .
12 May 1995 - EVA Mir EO-18-1. Retracted solar array.
17 May 1995 - EVA Mir EO-18-2. Began installation of solar array.
22 May 1995 - EVA Mir EO-18-3. Completed installation of solar array.
28 May 1995 - EVA Mir EO-18-4. Repositioned docking adapter.
1 June 1995 - EVA Mir EO-18-5. Repositioned docking adapter.
7 July 1995 - Landing of STS-71. STS-71 landed at 14:55 GMT with the crew of Baker, Dezhurov, Dunbar, Gibson, Harbaugh, Precourt, Strekalov and Thagard aboard.
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