Biographies of USSR / Russian Cosmonauts
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Nikolai Nikolayevich |
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Personal data
| Birthdate: | 18.09.1932 |
| Birthplace: | Tomsk / Tomsk Oblast / Russian SFSR |
| Marital status: | married |
| Children: | one |
| Selection date: | 27.05.1968 |
| Selection group: | Korolyov-Group / Mishin-Group / TsKBEM-1 |
| Position: | Test Cosmonaut (TC) |
| Status: | Ret. 07.07.1987 |
| Date of death: | 19.10.2002 |
| Place of death: | Moscow / Russian Federation |
Spaceflights
| No. | Mission | Position | Time | Duration |
| 1 | Soyuz 10 | Test Engineer | 22.04. - 24.04.1971 | 1d 23h 45m |
| 2 | Soyuz 16 | Flight Engineer | 02.12. - 08.12.1974 | 5d 22h 23m |
| 3 | Soyuz 33 | Commander | 10.04. - 12.04.1979 | 1d 23h 01m |
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| Total | 9d 21h 09m | |||
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Backup assignments
| No. | Mission | Position |
| 1 | Soyuz 19 EPAS | Flight Engineer |
| 2 | Soyuz 28 | Commander |
Additional information
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Graduated from Moscow Physical-Engineering
Institute, 1957; Candidate of technical sciences degree, 1980; Physicist;
Engineer at Korolyov design bureau; was selected as cosmonaut on 27.05.1968 (TsKBEM-1); was involved in the Soviet Lunar landing
program; first civilian, who has been a
Soyuz
Commander
in the Interkosmos program; he was assigned for
Soyuz T-11,
but he caught a bad cold and was replaced by Gennadi
Strekalov; later he worked on
at
NPOE; hobbies: Amateur-radio, driving. |
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