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Soviet cosmonaut (born 1943)
Aleksandr Pavlovich Aleksandrov
(
Russian
:
Александр Павлович Александров
; born February 20, 1943)
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is a former
Soviet
cosmonaut
and twice
Hero of the Soviet Union
(November 23, 1983, and December 29, 1987).
Biography
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Born in
Moscow
, Russia, he graduated from Moscow Bauman-Highschool in 1969 with a doctorate degree, specialised on spacecraft steering systems.
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He was selected as cosmonaut on December 1, 1978.
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For his first spaceflight, he flew as Flight Engineer on
Soyuz T-9
, which lasted from June to November 1983. For his second spaceflight, he replaced one of the long-duration crew members of
Mir EO-2
. For the spaceflight, he was launched with the spacecraft
Soyuz TM-3
in July 1987, and landed with the same spacecraft in December 1987. All together he spent 309 days, 18 hours, 2 minutes in space.
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He served as backup for
Soyuz T-8
,
Soyuz T-13
, and
Soyuz T-15
.
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He resigned from the cosmonaut team on October 26, 1993, when he became chief of NPOE Cosmonaut-group; since 1996 he is Chief flight test directorate of RKKE. He is married with two children.
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