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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
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