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Personal: Male, Married, Two children. Born in Zmiev, Kharkov, Ukraine. Soviet Air Force Graduated from Military Pilot School, Kirovograd, 1956 and from Moscow Aviation Institute with an engineering degree, 1969 Soviet Air Force Colonel, Russia Air Force, and civilian test pilot of LII. Astronaut Career Astronaut Group: Buran Group - 1978, MAP Group 1 - 1981. Inactive Entered space service: 30 July 1980. Left space service: 1996. Number of Flights: 1.00. Total Time: 11.80 days. Cosmonaut training December 1978 - July 1980. Buran Test Pilot, Head of Buran test pilot corps. Commander, Gromov Flight Research Center at Gromov Flight Research Institute (LII). After 40 years of working for the LII he retired in February 2002.
Volk Spaceflight Log
Volk Chronology 17 July 1984 - Soyuz T-12. Assignment: Prime Crew. Flight: Salyut 7 EP-4, Salyut 7 EO-3. Docked with Salyut 7. Transported a crew comprising ship's commander V A Dzhanibekov, flight engineer S E Savitskaya and cosmonaut-research I P Volk to the Salyut-7 orbital station to conduct scientific and technical studies and experiments. 29 July 1984 - Landing of Soyuz T-12. Assignment: Return Crew. Flight: Salyut 7 EP-4, Salyut 7 EO-3. Soyuz T-12 landed at 12:55 GMT. 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. 5 October 1987 - Buran Analog BST-02 flight 14. Assignment: Prime Crew. Automatic landing. Time 21 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. 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. 1994 Late or Early 1995 - Buran 5 (cancelled). Assignment: Proposed Prime Crew. Flight: Buran 5. Buran Flight 5 (3K1) would have been the first flight of the third orbiter. It would be the first manned Buran flight; the third orbiter was the first outfitted with life support systems and ejection seats. Two cosmonauts would deliver the 37KBI module to Mir, using the Buran manipulator arm to dock it to the station's Kristall module. Final crew selection had still not been made at the time the program was cancelled. Bibliography and Further Reading
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