Laveykin

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Laveykin

Aleksandr Ivanovich Laveykin Status: Inactive. Trained as: Cosmonaut. Profession: Engineer. Sex: Male. Marital Status: Married. Children: One. Birth Date: 21 April 1951. Birth City: Moscow. Birth Country: Russia. Nationality: Russian. Affiliation: Civilian Engineer, Energiya NPO. Group: 1978 Civilian Engineer Group. Detachment: NPOE-4. Date Selected: 01 December 1978. Date Departed: 28 March 1994. Number of Flights: 1. Total Time: 174.14 days. Number of EVAs: 3. Total EVA Time: 8.82 hours. Comments: .

Flight Log

Soyuz Almaz 4 - - 1982 First half - Assignment: Proposed Prime Crew.
Planned Soyuz flight to a dock with the Almaz OPS 4 space station. The mission was cancelled together with the Almaz program in 1981.
Soyuz TM-2 - - 1987 Feb 5 - Assignment: Prime Crew. Flight Time: 174.14 days. Flight details: Soyuz TM-2.
Mir Expedition EO-02. Docked with Mir 7 February 1987. Carried Yuri Romanenko, Aleksander Laveykin to Mir; returned Laveykin, crew of Soyuz TM-3 to Earth. Undocked from Mir 8:34 GMT 29 July. Orbital Module left in a 308 X 356 orbit. Recovered July 30, 1987 01:54 GMT.
EVA Soyuz TM-2-1 - - 1987 Apr 11 - Assignment: EVA Crew. EVA Duration: 3.67 hours.
Removed bag from docking unit that interfered with Kvant docking.
EVA Soyuz TM-2-2 - - 1987 Jun 12 - Assignment: EVA Crew. EVA Duration: 1.90 hours.
Began solar array installation.
EVA Soyuz TM-2-3 - - 1987 Jun 16 - Assignment: EVA Crew. EVA Duration: 3.25 hours.
Continued solar array installation.
Soyuz TM-14B - - 1991 End - Assignment: Proposed Backup Crew.
Soyuz TM-13 and TM-14 crews were reshuffled extensively due to commercial seat bookings by Austria and Germany and the necessity of flying a Kazakh-born cosmonaut as part of the Baikonur rental agreement. This was the second crew assignment. The Kazakh researchers were moved to the earlier Soyuz TM-13 flight and paying German researchers took their place in the final crew.

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