Shchukin

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Shchukin

Alexandr Vladimirovich Shchukin Status: Deceased. Trained as: Cosmonaut. Profession: Pilot. Sex: Male. Marital Status: Married. Birth Date: 19 January 1946. Birth City: Vienna. Birth Country: Austria. Nationality: Russian. Date of Death: 18 August 1988. Cause of Death: Crash of Su-26 acrobatic aircraft. Group: 1977 Buran Group. Detachment: LII-1. Date Selected: 01 January 1977. Date Departed: 18 August 1988. Number of Flights: 0. Comments: Buran Test Pilot, Died 18 Aug 1988 in Su-26 flight.

Flight Log

Soyuz T-15A - - 1986 Early - Assignment: Proposed Backup Crew.
Final expedition to Salyut 7 station was cancelled when control was lost.
Buran Analog BST-02 taxi test 6 - - 1986 Apr 26 - Assignment: Prime Crew.
Time 14 minutes.
Buran Analog BST-02 flight 5 - - 1986 Jun 20 - Assignment: Prime Crew.
Time 25 minutes.
Buran Analog BST-02 flight 6 - - 1986 Jun 28 - Assignment: Prime Crew.
Time 23 minutes.
Buran Analog BST-02 flight 9 - - 1986 Dec 29 - Assignment: Prime Crew.
Time 17 minutes.
Buran Analog BST-02 taxi test 7 - - 1987 Mar 29 - Assignment: Prime Crew.
Time 2 minutes.
Buran Analog BST-02 taxi test 8 - - 1987 Mar 30 - Assignment: Prime Crew.
Time 25 minutes.
Buran Analog BST-02 flight 12 - - 1987 May 21 - Assignment: Prime Crew.
Time 20 minutes.
Buran Analog BST-02 flight 14 - - 1987 Oct 5 - Assignment: Prime Crew.
Automatic landing. Time 21 minutes.
Soyuz TM-4 - - 1987 Dec 21 - Assignment: Backup Crew. Flight details: Soyuz TM-4.
Mir Expedition EO-03. Carried Musa Manarov, Anatoly Levchenko, Vladimir Titov to Mir; returned crew of Soyuz TM-5 to Earth. Orbits 168 x 243 km, 255 x 296 km, 333 x 359 km. Docked with Mir 12:51 GMT 23 December. 30 December moved to forward port. Undocked 06:18 GMT 17 June 88. Recovered June 17, 1988 10:13 GMT. Landed 202 km from Dzehezkazgan.
Buran Analog BST-02 flight 23 - - 1988 Apr 2 - Assignment: Prime Crew.
Time 20 minutes.
Buran Analog BST-02 flight 24 - - 1988 Apr 8 - Assignment: Prime Crew.

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