Savinykh

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Savinykh

Viktor Petrovich Savinykh Status: Inactive. Trained as: Cosmonaut. Profession: Engineer. Sex: Male. Marital Status: Married. Children: One. Birth Date: 07 March 1940. Birth City: Berezkiny. Birth State: Kirov . 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: 09 February 1989. Number of Flights: 3. Total Time: 252.73 days. Number of EVAs: 1. Total EVA Time: 5.00 hours. Comments: Rector of Moscow Institute of Engineers of Geodesy, Aerial Surveying, and Cartography, 1989.

Flight Log

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.
Soyuz T-7 - - 1982 Aug 19 - Assignment: Backup Crew. Flight details: Soyuz T-7.
Docked with Salyut 7. Carried Svetlana Savitskaya, Leonid Popov, Alexander Serebrov to Salyut 7 to conduct scientific and technical research and experiments; returned crew of Soyuz T-5 to Earth. Recovered December 10, 1982 19:03 GMT. Landed 118 km E Dzhezkazgan.
Soyuz T-8 - - 1983 Apr 20 - Assignment: Backup Crew. Flight details: Soyuz T-8.
Manned three crew. Unsuccessful mission. Failed to rendezvous with Salyut 7. Recovered April 22, 1983 13:29 GMT. Landed 113 km SE Arkalyk.
Soyuz T-10 - - 1984 Feb 8 - Assignment: Backup Crew. Flight details: Soyuz T-10.
Manned three crew. Docked with Salyut 7. Transported a crew consisting of ship's commander L D Kizim, flight engineer V A Solovyov and cosmonaut-research O Y Atkov to the SALYUT-7 orbital station to conduct scientific and technical studies and experiments. Returned crew of Soyuz T-11 to Earth. Recovered April 11, 1984 10:50 GMT. Landed 160 km E Dzehezkazgan.
Soyuz T-12 - - 1984 Jul 17 - Assignment: Backup Crew. Flight details: Soyuz T-12.
Docked with Salyut 7. Transported a crew comprising ship's commander V A Dzhanibekov, flight engineer S E Savitskaya and cosmonaut-research I P Volk to the Salyut-7 orbital station to conduct scientific and technical studies and experiments. Recovered July 29, 1984 12:55 GMT.
Soyuz T-13a - - 1985 March - Assignment: Proposed Prime Crew.
Planned but cancelled manned flight to Salyut 7. Breakdown of Salyut 7 led to cancellation of this flight and its replacement by the Soyuz T-13 repair mission. Savinykh served on the repair mission while Vasyutin and Volkov flew on Soyuz T-14.
Soyuz T-13 - - 1985 Jun 6 - Assignment: Prime Crew. Flight Time: 168.16 days. Flight details: Soyuz T-13.
Docked with Salyut 7. Delivered to the Salyut-7 orbital station a crew consisting of flight commander V A Dzhanibekov and flight engineer V P Savinykh to carry out emergency repairs to inert Salyut 7 station and to conduct scientific and technical research and experiments. Returned crew of Soyuz T-14 to Earth. Recovered September 26, 1985 9:52 GMT.
EVA Soyuz T-15-1 - - 1985 Aug 2 - Assignment: EVA Crew. EVA Duration: 5.00 hours.
Installed solar array.
Soyuz TM-3 - - 1987 Jul 22 - Assignment: Backup Crew. Flight details: Soyuz TM-3.
Manned three crew. Transported to the Mir orbital space station a Soviet-Syrian crew comprising cosmonauts A S Viktorenko, A P Aleksandrov and M A Faris to conduct joint research and experiments with cosmonauts Y Romanenko and A Laveykin. Maneuvered from initial 231 X 217 km orbit to Mir's 311 X 359 km orbit. Docked with rear Mir port at 3:30 GMT 24 July. Undocked with rear port 30 July and docked to forward port. Undocked 05:55 GMT 29 December. Returned Aleksandrov, Yuri Romanenko (Soyuz TM-2), Anatoly Levchenko (Soyuz TM-4) to Earth. Recovered December 29, 1987 09:16 GMT. Landed near Arkalyk.
Soyuz TM-5 - - 1988 Jun 7 - Assignment: Prime Crew. Flight Time: 9.84 days. Flight details: Soyuz TM-5.
Transported to the Mir orbital station a Soviet/Bulgarian crew comprising cosmonauts A Y Solovyev, V P Savinykh and A P Aleksandrov (Bulgaria) to conduct joint research and experiments with cosmonauts V G Titov and M K Manarov. Interim orbit 343 x 282 km. Maneuvered to Mir's 355 x 349 km orbit. Docked 15:57 GMT 9 June to Mir's aft port. Moved to forward port 18 June. Undocked 22:55 GMT 5 September. Jettisoned Orbital Module 23:35 GMT 5 September. Planned landing 02:15 September 6 1988 failed due to confusion of infrared horizon sensors. Repeat retrofire attempt one orbit later resulted in a partial burn only. The crew had to spend a tense 24 hours in the cramped Descent Module (the Orbital Module having already been jettisoned before the retrofire burn) before making last chance deorbit. Finally Lyakhov and Afghani cosmonaut Mohmand (Soyuz TM-6) returned safely to Earth and landed September 7, 1988 00:50 GMT, 160 km SE Dzhezkazgan.

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