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Personal: Male, Married, two children. Born in Orehovka, Kryam, Ukraine. Soviet Air Force Soviet Air Force Soviet Air Force Astronaut Career Astronaut Group: Air Force Group 8 - 1987. Inactive Entered space service: 26 March 1987. Left space service: 19 June 1998. Number of Flights: 2.00. Total Time: 381.66 days. Number of EVAs: 6.00. Total EVA Time: 0.91 days. Call sign: Sirius (Sirius). Tsibliyev Spaceflight Log
Tsibliyev Chronology 26 March 1987 - Soviet Air Force Cosmonaut Training Group 8 selected.. 1991 End - Soyuz TM-14B (cancelled). Soyuz TM-13 and TM-14 crews were reshuffled extensively due to commercial seat bookings by Austria and Germany and the necessity of flying a Kazakh-born cosmonaut as part of the Baikonur rental agreement. This was the second crew assignment. The Kazakh researchers were moved to the earlier Soyuz TM-13 flight and paying German researchers took their place in the final crew. 24 January 1993 - Soyuz TM-16. Manned two crew. Mir Expedition EO-13. Transported to the Mir manned orbital station a crew of the thirteenth main expedition comprising the cosmonauts G M Manakov and A F Poleschuk.The Soyuz carried the APAS androgynous docking system instead of the usual probe system. 1 July 1993 - Soyuz TM-17. Mir Expedition EO-14. Carried Vasili Tsibliyev, Alexander Serebrov, Jean-Pierre Haignere to Mir; returned Serebrov, Tsibliyev to Earth. Progress M-18 undocked from Mir's front port at around 17:25 GMT on July 3, and Soyuz TM-17 docked at the same port only 20 minutes later at 17:45 GMT. 16 September 1993 - EVA Mir EO-14-1. Began installation of Rapana truss. 20 September 1993 - EVA Mir EO-14-2. Completed installation of Rapana truss. 28 September 1993 - EVA Mir EO-14-3. Installed material samples and retrieved experiment packages. Documented external condition of Mir. 22 October 1993 - EVA Mir EO-14-4. Retrieved micrometeoroid detectors. 29 October 1993 - EVA Mir EO-14-5. Installed equipment on exterior of Mir 14 January 1994 - Landing of Soyuz TM-17. Soyuz TM-17 landed at 08:24 GMT with the EO-14 crew of Serebrov and Tsibliyev aboard. 21 February 1996 - Soyuz TM-23. Mir Expedition EO-21. Soyuz TM-23 docked with Mir at 14:20:35 on February 23. 17 August 1996 - Soyuz TM-24. Mir Expedition EO-22. Valeriy Korzun and Aleksandr Kaleri of the Russian Space Agency (RKA) Claudie Andre-Deshays of the French space agency CNES. This launch was the first of the Soyuz-U booster with a crew aboard following two launch failures of on unmanned flights. Soyuz docked with Mir's front port at 14:50:21 GMT on August 19; Mir was in a 375 x 390 km x 51.6 deg orbit. On Feb 7 at 16:28:01 GMT the EO-22 crew and American astronaut Linenger undocked the Soyuz TM-24 ferry from the front docking port, flew it around to the far side of the complex and redocked at the rear Kvant port at 16:51:27 GMT. This cleared the forward port for the arrival of the EO-23 crew, who brought with them German astronaut Reinhold Ewald on Feb 12. 10 February 1997 - Soyuz TM-25. Mir Expedition EO-23. Soyuz TM-25 docked with Mir at the forward port on February 12 at 15:51:13 GMT. 29 April 1997 - EVA Mir EO-23-1. Test of new spacesuits. Retrieved and installed external equipment. 14 August 1997 - Landing of Soyuz TM-25. Following a mission that seemed to consist of an endless series of collisions, breakdowns, fires, and other emergencies, the EO-23 crew handed over the station to EO-24 and on August 14 entered Soyuz TM-25 landed in Kazakstan at 12:17 UTC, 170 km SE of Dzezkazgan. The Soyuz landing rockets failed to fire on touchdown, giving one of the roughest landings experienced by a returning Mir crew. 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. |
