Borodai

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Borodai

Alexei Sergeyevich Borodai Status: Inactive. Trained as: Cosmonaut. Profession: Pilot. Sex: Male. Marital Status: Married. Children: Two. Birth Date: 04 August 1947. Birth City: Borodaevka. Birth State: Volgograd. Birth Country: Russia. Nationality: Russian. Affiliation: Soviet Air Force. Group: 1979 Buran Group. Detachment: GKNII-B- 1. Date Selected: 15 January 1979. Date Departed: 29 December 1993. Number of Flights: 0. Comments: BOR test pilot, 1978-1987. Thereafter Buran test pilot. Assigned to crew for first Buran spaceflight 1990.

Flight Log

Buran Analog BST-02 flight 15 - - 1987 Oct 15 - Assignment: Prime Crew.
Time 19 minutes.
Buran Analog BST-02 flight 17 - - 1988 Jan 24 - Assignment: Prime Crew.
Buran Analog BST-02 flight 18 - - 1988 Feb 23 - Assignment: Prime Crew.
Time 22 minutes.
Buran Analog BST-02 flight 20 - - 1988 Mar 12 - Assignment: Prime Crew.
Buran Analog BST-02 flight 21 - - 1988 Mar 23 - Assignment: Prime Crew.
Buran Analog BST-02 flight 22 - - 1988 Mar 28 - Assignment: Prime Crew.
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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