Volkov Aleksandr

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Volkov Aleksandr

Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Volkov Status: Inactive. Trained as: Cosmonaut. Profession: Pilot. Sex: Male. Marital Status: Married. Children: Two. Birth Date: 27 May 1948. Birth City: Gorlovka. Birth State: Donetsk. Birth Country: Ukraine. Nationality: Russian. Affiliation: Soviet Air Force. Group: 1976 Air Force Group. Detachment: TsPK-6. Date Selected: 23 August 1976. Date Departed: 20 August 1998. Number of Flights: 3. Total Time: 391.50 days. Number of EVAs: 2. Total EVA Time: 10.15 hours. Comments: .

Flight Log

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.
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.
Soyuz TM-7 - - 1988 Nov 26 - Assignment: Prime Crew. Flight Time: 151.47 days. 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.
EVA Soyuz TM-7-1 - - 1988 Dec 9 - Assignment: EVA Crew. EVA Duration: 5.95 hours.
Deployed ERA (French experiment).
Soyuz TM-12 - - 1991 May 18 - Assignment: Backup Crew. Flight details: Soyuz TM-12.
Docked with Mir. Mir Expedition EO-09. Carried Anatoli Artsebarski, Sergei Krikalev, Helen Sharman to Mir; returned Artsebarski, crew of Soyuz TM 8 to Earth. Second commercial flight with paying British passenger. Sponsoring British consortium was not quite able to come up with money, however. Flight continued at Soviet expense with very limited UK experiments.
Soyuz TM-13a - - 1991 August - Assignment: Proposed Prime Crew.
Soyuz TM-13 and TM-14 crews were reshuffled extensively due to commercial considerations and necessity of flying a Kazakh cosmonaut. This was the original crew assignment. Kaleri and Avdeyev were replaced by Kazakh researchers in the final crew.
Soyuz TM-13 - - 1991 Oct 2 - Assignment: Prime Crew. Flight Time: 175.12 days. Flight details: Soyuz TM-13.
Manned three crew. Docked with Mir. Mir Expedition EO-10. Transported to the Mir manned orbital station an international crew comprising the cosmonauts A Volkov (USSR), T Aubakirov (USSR) and F. Viehbock (Austria), to conduct joint scientific and technical research with the cosmonauts A. Artsebarsky and S Krikalev. Austria paid $ 7 million for mission. Kazakh cosmonaut added at last minute. On March 25, Volkov, Krikalyov and Flade undocked from the front port in Soyuz TM-13 and landed in Kazakhstan at 08:51 GMT on March 25.
EVA Soyuz TM-13-1 - - 1992 Feb 20 - Assignment: EVA Crew. EVA Duration: 4.20 hours.
Dismantled equipment.

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