Volk

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Volk

Igor Petrovich Volk Status: Inactive. Trained as: Cosmonaut. Profession: Pilot. Sex: Male. Marital Status: Married. Children: Two. Birth Date: 12 April 1937. Birth City: Zmiev. Birth State: Kharkov. Birth Country: Ukraine. Nationality: Russian. Group: 1977 Buran Group. Detachment: LII-1. Date Selected: 01 January 1977. Date Departed: 30 June 1990. Number of Flights: 1. Total Time: 11.80 days. Comments: Buran Test Pilot, Head of Buran test pilot corps.

Flight Log

Soyuz T-12 - - 1984 Jul 17 - Assignment: Prime Crew. Flight Time: 11.80 days. 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.
Buran Analog BST-02 taxi test 1 - - 1984 Dec 29 - Assignment: Prime Crew.
Maximum speed 45 kph. Time 5 minutes. Thereafter to PRSO test stand for full-scale equipment tests; then to PDST pilot-dynamics test stand for further tests.
Buran Analog BST-02 taxi test 2 - - 1985 Aug 2 - Assignment: Prime Crew.
Maximum speed 200 kph. Time 14 minutes.
Buran Analog BST-02 taxi test 3 - - 1985 Oct 5 - Assignment: Prime Crew.
Maximum speed 270 kph. Time 12 minutes.
Buran Analog BST-02 taxi test 4 - - 1985 Oct 15 - Assignment: Prime Crew.
Maximum speed 300 kph.
Buran Analog BST-02 flight 1 - - 1985 Nov 10 - Assignment: Prime Crew.
Maximum speed 480 kph. Maximum altitude 1500 m. Time 12 minutes.
Buran Analog BST-02 taxi test 5 - - 1985 Nov 15 - Assignment: Prime Crew.
Maximum speed 170 kph. Time 12 minutes.
Buran Analog BST-02 flight 2 - - 1986 Jan 3 - Assignment: Prime Crew.
Maximum speed 520 kph. Maximum altitude 3000 m. Time 36 minutes.
Buran Analog BST-02 flight 3 - - 1986 May 27 - Assignment: Prime Crew.
Maximum speed 540 kph. Maximum altitude 4000 m. Time 23 minutes.
Buran Analog BST-02 flight 4 - - 1986 Jun 11 - Assignment: Prime Crew.
Maximum speed 530 kph. Maximum altitude 4000 m. Time 22 minutes.
Buran Analog BST-02 flight 7 - - 1986 Dec 10 - Assignment: Prime Crew.
First automatic landing from 4000 m altitude. Time 24 minutes.
Buran Analog BST-02 flight 8 - - 1986 Dec 23 - Assignment: Prime Crew.
Time 17 minutes.
Buran Analog BST-02 flight 10 - - 1987 Feb 16 - Assignment: Prime Crew.
Time 28 minutes.
Buran Analog BST-02 flight 11 - - 1987 Feb 25 - Assignment: Prime Crew.
Time 19 minutes.
Buran Analog BST-02 flight 13 - - 1987 Jun 25 - Assignment: Prime Crew.
Time 19 minutes.
Buran Analog BST-02 flight 14 - - 1987 Oct 5 - Assignment: Prime Crew.
Automatic landing. Time 21 minutes.
Buran Analog BST-02 flight 16 - - 1988 Jan 16 - Assignment: Prime Crew.
Buran Analog BST-02 flight 19 - - 1988 Mar 4 - Assignment: Prime Crew.
Time 32 minutes.
Buran Analog BST-02 flight 25 - - 1988 Apr 15 - Assignment: Prime Crew.
Time 19 minutes. Final Buran Analog flight test. At the same time development of the auto-land system aboard the Tu-154 test bed is completed as well.
Buran 5 - - 1994 Late or Early 1995 - Assignment: Proposed Prime Crew.
Buran Flight 5 (3K1) would have been the first flight of the third orbiter. It would be the first manned Buran flight; the third orbiter was the first outfitted with life support systems and ejection seats. Two cosmonauts would deliver the 37KBI module to Mir, using the Buran manipulator arm to dock it to the station's Kristall module. Final crew selection had still not been made at the time the program was cancelled. The original crew was Volk and Stankiavicius, with Levchenko and Shchukin as back-ups. Both Levchenko and Shchukin died in 1988; Bachurin and Borodai were selected as the new back-up crew. By July 1992 the Soviet Air Force and NPO Energia were still arguing about the final crew composition. The Air Force wanted all test pilot crews (those indicated) while Energia wanted to include a flight engineer in each crew. The Buran project was finally cancelled in June 1993 when further funding was deleted from the Russian space budget.

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