Serebrov

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Serebrov

Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Serebrov Status: Inactive. Trained as: Cosmonaut. Profession: Engineer. Sex: Male. Marital Status: Married. Children: Two. Birth Date: 15 February 1944. Birth City: 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: 01 January 1995. Number of Flights: 4. Total Time: 372.95 days. Number of EVAs: 10. Total EVA Time: 31.63 hours. Comments: .

Flight Log

Soyuz T-7 - - 1982 Aug 19 - Assignment: Prime Crew. Flight Time: 7.91 days. 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: Prime Crew. Flight Time: 2.01 days. 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-15B - - 1986 June - Assignment: Proposed Backup Crew.
Planned flight to Salyut 7. Breakdown of Salyut 7, exhaustion of stock of Soyuz T spacecraft led to cancellation of mission.
Soyuz TM-2 - - 1987 Feb 5 - Assignment: Backup Crew. 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.
Soyuz TM-5 - - 1988 Jun 7 - Assignment: Backup Crew. 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.
Soyuz TM-7 - - 1988 Nov 26 - Assignment: Backup Crew. Flight details: Soyuz TM-7.
Mir Expedition EO-04. Carried Alexander Volkov, Sergei Krikalev, Jean-Loup Chretien to Mir; returned Volkov, Krikalev to Earth. Initial Orbit: 194 X 235 km. Thereafter maneuvered to rendezvous orbit 256 X 291 km before docking with Mir in 337 X 369 km at 17:16 GMT 28 November.
Soyuz TM-8 - - 1989 Sep 5 - Assignment: Prime Crew. Flight Time: 166.29 days. 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.
EVA Soyuz TM-8-1 - - 1990 Jan 8 - Assignment: EVA Crew. EVA Duration: 2.93 hours.
Installed star tracker.
EVA Soyuz TM-8-2 - - 1990 Jan 11 - Assignment: EVA Crew. EVA Duration: 2.90 hours.
Retrieved and installed material samples
EVA Soyuz TM-8-3 - - 1990 Jan 26 - Assignment: EVA Crew. EVA Duration: 3.03 hours.
Tested spacesuit. Examined exterior of Kvant 2.
EVA Soyuz TM-8-4 - - 1990 Feb 1 - Assignment: EVA Crew. EVA Duration: 4.98 hours.
Serebrov tested SPK manoeuvring unit.
EVA Soyuz TM-8-5 - - 1990 Feb 5 - Assignment: EVA Crew. EVA Duration: 3.75 hours.
Viktorenko tested SPK manoeuvring unit.
Soyuz TM-16 - - 1993 Jan 24 - Assignment: Backup Crew. Flight details: Soyuz TM-16.
Manned two crew. Mir Expedition EO-13. Transported to the Mir manned orbital station a crew of the thirteenth main expedition comprising the cosmonauts G M Manakov and A F Poleschuk.The Soyuz carried the APAS androgynous docking system instead of the usual probe system. Soyuz TM-16 landed at 06:42 GMT on July 22.
Soyuz TM-17 - - 1993 Jul 1 - Assignment: Prime Crew. Flight Time: 196.74 days. Flight details: Soyuz TM-17.
Mir Expedition EO-14. Carried Vasili Tsibliyev, Alexander Serebrov, Jean-Pierre Haignere to Mir; returned Serebrov, Tsibliyev to Earth. Progress M-18 undocked from Mir's front port at around 17:25 GMT on July 3, and Soyuz TM-17 docked at the same port only 20 minutes later at 17:45 GMT. The EO-14 crew landed at 08:18 GMT on Jan 14 in the Soyuz TM-17 spaceship. The EO-14 expedition lasted 196 days 18hr 45 m, the 7th longest spaceflight.
EVA Soyuz TM-17-1 - - 1993 Sep 16 - Assignment: EVA Crew. EVA Duration: 4.30 hours.
Began installation of Rapana truss.
EVA Soyuz TM-17-2 - - 1993 Sep 20 - Assignment: EVA Crew. EVA Duration: 3.23 hours.
Completed installation of Rapana truss.
EVA Soyuz TM-17-3 - - 1993 Sep 28 - Assignment: EVA Crew. EVA Duration: 1.87 hours.
Installed material samples and retrieved experiment packages. Documented external condition of Mir.
EVA Soyuz TM-17-4 - - 1993 Oct 22 - Assignment: EVA Crew. EVA Duration: 0.63 hours.
Retrieved micrometeoroid detectors.
EVA Soyuz TM-17-5 - - 1993 Oct 29 - Assignment: EVA Crew. EVA Duration: 4.00 hours.
Installed equipment on exterior of Mir

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