Kovalyonok

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Kovalyonok

Vladimir Vasilyevich Kovalyonok Status: Inactive. Trained as: Cosmonaut. Profession: Pilot. Sex: Male. Marital Status: Married. Children: Two. Birth Date: 03 March 1942. Birth City: Beloe. Birth State: Minsk. Birth Country: Belarus. Nationality: Russian. Affiliation: Soviet Air Force. Group: 1967 Air Force Group. Detachment: TsPK-4. Date Selected: 07 May 1967. Date Departed: 23 June 1984. Number of Flights: 3. Total Time: 216.38 days. Number of EVAs: 1. Total EVA Time: 2.08 hours. Comments: Call sign: Foton (Photon).

Flight Log

Soyuz 18 - - 1975 May 24 - Assignment: Backup Crew. Flight details: Soyuz 18.
Manned two crew. Docked with Salyut 4. Joint experiments with the Salyut scientific orbital station. Recovered July 26, 1975 14:18 GMT. Landed 56 km E Arkalyk.
Soyuz 25 - - 1977 Oct 9 - Assignment: Prime Crew. Flight Time: 2.03 days. Flight details: Soyuz 25.
Manned two crew. Unsuccessful mission. Failed to dock with Salyut 6. Recovered October 11, 1977 3:25 GMT.
Soyuz 26 - - 1977 Dec 10 - Assignment: Backup Crew. Flight details: Soyuz 26.
Manned two crew. Docked with Salyut 6. Carried Yuri Romanenko, Georgi Grechko to Salyut 6; returned crew of Soyuz 27 to Earth. Conduct of joint experiments with the Salyut-6 scientific station. Recovered January 16, 1978 11:25 GMT.
Soyuz 27 - - 1978 Jan 10 - Assignment: Backup Crew. Flight details: Soyuz 27.
Manned two crew. Carried Oleg Makarov, Vladimir Dzhanibekov to Salyut 6; returned crew of Soyuz 26 to Earth. Docked with Salyut 6. Recovered March 16, 1978 11:19 GMT.
Soyuz 29 - - 1978 Jun 15 - Assignment: Prime Crew. Flight Time: 139.62 days. Flight details: Soyuz 29.
Manned two crew. Docked with Salyut 6. Placed on board the Salyut-6 station a crew consisting of V.V. Kovalenko and A.S. Ivanchenkov to conduct scientific and technological investigations and experiments. Recovered September 3, 1978 11:40 GMT.
EVA Soyuz 29-1 - - 1978 Jul 29 - Assignment: EVA Crew. EVA Duration: 2.08 hours.
Retrieved material samples and equipment.
Soyuz T-3 - - 1980 Nov 27 - Assignment: Backup Crew. Flight details: Soyuz T-3.
Manned three crew. Docked with Salyut 6. Tested the improved transport ship of the 'SOYUZ T' series; transported to the Salyut-6 orbital station a crew consisting of L D Kizim, O G Makarov and G M Strekalov to carry out repair and preventive work and scientific and technical investigation and experiments. Recovered December 10, 1980 09:26 GMT.
Soyuz T-4 - - 1981 Mar 12 - Assignment: Prime Crew. Flight Time: 74.73 days. Flight details: Soyuz T-4.
Manned two crew. Docked with Salyut 6. Transported to the Salyut-6 orbital station cosmonauts V V Kovalenko and V P Savinykh to carry out repairs and preventive maintenance and scientific and technical investigations and experiments. Recovered June 10, 1981 12:38 GMT.

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