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Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Volkov Ukrainian Pilot Cosmonaut. Born 27 April 1948. Father of cosmonaut Sergei Volkov. 391 cumulative days in space.

Personal: Male, Married, Two children. Born in Gorlovka, Donetsk, Ukraine. Soviet Air Force Graduated from Chuguyev Higher Air Force School, Kharkov, 1970. Graduated from Military Academy, Moscow, 1991. Soviet Air Force. Colonel and test pilot, Soviet Air Force.

Astronaut Career

Astronaut Group: Air Force Group 6 - 1976. Inactive Entered space service: 1 December 1978. Left space service: 21 August 1998. Number of Flights: 3.00. Total Time: 391.50 days. Number of EVAs: 2.00. Total EVA Time: 0.42 days. Cosmonaut training 23 August 1976 - 30 January 1979. From 1990-1998 Commander, Cosmonaut Detachment. Retired from active duty on 11 October 1998.

From 2000, President of television channel Mus-TV, Moscow.

Volkov Aleksandr Spaceflight Log

  • 17 September 1985 Flight: Salyut 7 EO-4-2. Flight Up: Soyuz T-14. Flight Back: Soyuz T-14. Flight Time: 64.91 days.
  • 26 November 1988 Flight: Mir EO-4. Flight Up: Soyuz TM-7. Flight Back: Soyuz TM-7. Flight Time: 151.47 days.
  • 2 October 1991 Flight: Mir EO-10. Flight Up: Soyuz TM-13. Flight Back: Soyuz TM-13. Flight Time: 175.12 days.
Volkov Aleksandr Chronology

23 August 1976 - Soviet Air Force Cosmonaut Training Group 6 selected..

1985 March - Soyuz T-13A (cancelled). A mission was planned from 1982 to operate the military experiments aboard TKS-3 after it had docked with Salyut 7. Salyut 7 problems resulted in a complete breakdown of the TKS-3 plans and the crew was split-up and launched on two seperate flights.
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.
21 November 1985 - Landing of Soyuz T-14. Soyuz T-14 landed at 10:31 GMT with the crew of Savinykh, Vasyutin and Volkov Aleksandr aboard.
21 December 1987 - Soyuz TM-4. Mir Expedition EO-03. Carried Musa Manarov, Anatoly Levchenko, Vladimir Titov to Mir; returned crew of Soyuz TM-5 to Earth. Orbits 168 x 243 km, 255 x 296 km, 333 x 359 km. Docked with Mir 12:51 GMT 23 December. 30 December moved to forward port.
26 November 1988 - Soyuz TM-7. Mir Expedition EO-04. Carried Alexander Volkov, Sergei Krikalev, Jean-Loup Chretien to Mir; returned Volkov, Krikalev to Earth. Initial Orbit: 194 X 235 km. Thereafter maneuvered to rendezvous orbit 256 X 291 km before docking with Mir in 337 X 369 km at 17:16 GMT 28 November.
9 December 1988 - EVA Mir EO-4-1. Deployed ERA (French experiment).
27 April 1989 - Landing of Soyuz TM-7. Soyuz TM-7 landed at 02:59 GMT with the crew of Krikalyov, Polyakov and Volkov Aleksandr aboard.
18 May 1991 - Soyuz TM-12. Docked with Mir. Mir Expedition EO-09. Carried Anatoli Artsebarski, Sergei Krikalev, Helen Sharman to Mir; returned Artsebarski, crew of Soyuz TM 8 to Earth. Second commercial flight with paying British passenger. Sponsoring British consortium was not quite able to come up with money, however. Flight continued at Soviet expense with very limited UK experiments.
1991 August - Soyuz TM-13A (cancelled). Soyuz TM-13 and TM-14 crews were reshuffled extensively due to commercial considerations and necessity of flying a Kazakh cosmonaut. This was the original crew assignment. Kaleri and Avdeyev were replaced by Kazakh researchers in the final crew.
2 October 1991 - Soyuz TM-13. Manned three crew. Docked with Mir. Mir Expedition EO-10. Transported to the Mir manned orbital station an international crew comprising the cosmonauts A Volkov (USSR), T Aubakirov (USSR) and F. Viehbock (Austria), to conduct joint scientific and technical research with the cosmonauts A. Artsebarsky and S Krikalev. Austria paid $ 7 million for mission. Kazakh cosmonaut added at last minute.
21 February 1992 - EVA Mir EO-10-1. Dismantled equipment.
25 March 1992 - Landing of Soyuz TM-13. Soyuz TM-13 landed at 08:51 GMT with the crew of Flade, Krikalyov and Volkov Aleksandr aboard.
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