Vasyutin

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Vasyutin

Vladimir Vladimirovich Vasyutin Status: Inactive. Trained as: Cosmonaut. Profession: Pilot. Sex: Male. Marital Status: Married. Children: Two. Birth Date: 08 March 1952. Birth City: Kharkov. Birth State: Kharkov. Birth Country: Ukraine. Nationality: Russian. Affiliation: Soviet Air Force. Group: 1976 Air Force Group. Detachment: TsPK-6. Date Selected: 23 August 1976. Date Departed: 25 February 1986. Number of Flights: 1. Total Time: 64.91 days. Comments: Employed outside space program, March 1988. Call sign: Cheget (Tcheget - mountain in the Caucasus).

Flight Log

TKS-3 - - 1981 Late - Assignment: Proposed Backup Crew.
Third TKS flight that would have docked with the cancelled Almaz OPS 4 military space station. The spacecraft was instead flown unmanned to Salyut 7 as Cosmos 1686. For that mission the VA reentry capsule was retained but stripped of its heat shield and all recovery equpment. In their place military optical test sensors (infrared telescope and Ozon spectrometer) were installed.
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-14 - - 1985 Sep 17 - Assignment: Prime Crew. Flight Time: 64.91 days. Flight details: Soyuz T-14.
Docked with Salyut 7. Transported a crew comprising ship's commander V V Vasyutin, flight engineer G M Grechko and cosmonaut-researcher A A Volkov to the Salyut-7 orbital station to conduct scientific and technical studies and experiments. Grechko returned in Soyuz T-13 on 25 September 1985 - emergency return.

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