Zaitsev
Zaitsev
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Andrei Yevgenyevich Zaitsev Russian Engineer Cosmonaut. Born 5 August 1957.

Personal: Male. Born in Tula, Russia. Korolev Design Bureau Graduated from Bauman Moscow Higher Technical School with an engineering degree, 1974 Civilian Engineer, Energia NPO.

Astronaut Career

Astronaut Group: Energia Engineer Group 8 - 1985. Inactive Entered space service: 2 September 1985. Left space service: 14 March 1996. Cosmonaut training November 1985 - October 1986. First backup for Serebrov on Soyuz TM-5. Later backup assignment for Soyuz TM-13.

Returned to work with RKK Energia.


Zaitsev Chronology

18 May 1964 - OKB-1 Voskhod candidates. Flight: Voskhod 1. Of 14 engineering cosmonaut candidates finally submitted by Korolev, only 6 survived preliminary screening and were sent for medical screening (Volkov, Grechko, Zaitsev, Kubasov, Makarov, Siborov, Feoktistov, and Yazdovskiy).


2 September 1985 - Energia Engineer Cosmonaut Training Group 8 selected..

Bibliography and Further Reading
  • Becker, Joachim, http://www.spacefacts.de/, "Space Facts Web Site", . Joachim Becker's outstanding collection of facts and photos of astronauts and cosmonauts. Accessed at: http://www.spacefacts.de/.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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