Balandin

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Balandin

Aleksandr Nikolayevich Balandin Status: Inactive. Trained as: Cosmonaut. Profession: Engineer. Sex: Male. Marital Status: Married. Children: Two. Birth Date: 30 July 1953. Birth City: Frayzino. Birth State: Moscow. Birth Country: Russia. Nationality: Russian. Affiliation: Civilian Engineer, Energia NPO. Group: 1978 Civilian Engineer Group. Detachment: NPOE-4. Date Selected: 01 December 1978. Date Departed: 17 October 1994. Number of Flights: 1. Total Time: 179.05 days. Number of EVAs: 2. Total EVA Time: 10.78 hours. Comments: .

Flight Log

Soyuz TM-8 - - 1989 Sep 5 - Assignment: Backup Crew. Flight details: Soyuz TM-8.
Manned two crew. Mir Expedition EO-05. Docked with Mir 8 September. Transported to the Mir orbital station a team consisting of A S Viktorenko, commander of the spacecraft, and A A Serebrov, on-board engineer, to carry out scientific and technological research and experiments. Flight cost 80 million rubles. Expected return 25 million rubles net profit.
Soyuz TM-9 - - 1990 Feb 11 - Assignment: Prime Crew. Flight Time: 179.05 days. Flight details: Soyuz TM-9.
Manned two crew. Mir Expedition EO-06. Docked with Mir. Transported to the Mir orbital station a crew comprising the cosmonauts A Y Solovyov and A N Balandin to conduct an extensive programme of geophysical and astrophysical research, experiments on biology and biotechnology and work on space materials science. Recovered August 9, 1990 07:35 GMT. Landed 70 km from Arkalyk at 50 deg 51'E 67 deg 17' N.
EVA Soyuz TM-9-1 - - 1990 Jul 17 - Assignment: EVA Crew. EVA Duration: 7.27 hours.
Repaired Soyuz TM-9 insulation rip.
EVA Soyuz TM-9-2 - - 1990 Jul 26 - Assignment: EVA Crew. EVA Duration: 3.52 hours.
Dismantled equipment. Temporarily closed damaged hatch.
Soyuz Buran Support - - 1991 December - Assignment: Proposed Backup Crew.
Planned Soyuz flight to Mir. Main purpose was to provide spaceflight experience to Bachurin and Borodai, who had been selected as back-up crew of the first manned Buran flight (the original back-up crew of Levchenko and Shchukin both died in 1988). Cancelled in cut-backs after fall of the Soviet Union.

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