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Nationality
  
Soviet

Awards
  

First space flight
  
Soyuz T-9

Mission insignia
  


Selection
  
1978 Intercosmos Group

Role
  
Cosmonaut

Time in space
  
309d 18h 02m

Name
  
Aleksandr Aleksandrov

Other occupation
  
Flight engineer

Aleksandr Pavlovich Aleksandrov

Born
  
20 February 1943 (age 81) Moscow, Soviet Union (
1943-02-20
)

Similar People
  
Aleksandr Viktorenko, Anatoli Levchenko, Vladimir Lyakhov, Yury Romanenko, Muhammed Faris

Space missions
  
Soyuz T-9, Soyuz TM-3

Aleksandr pavlovich aleksandrov nos cuenta sobre algunas de sus experiencias en el espacio


Aleksandr Pavlovich Aleksandrov (Russian: Александр Павлович Александров; born February 20, 1943) is a former Soviet cosmonaut and twice Hero of the Soviet Union (November 23, 1983 and December 29, 1987).

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Biography

Born in Moscow, Russia, he graduated from Moscow Bauman-Highschool in 1969 with a doctorate degree, specialised on spacecraft steering systems.

He was selected as cosmonaut on December 1, 1978. 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. He served as backup for Soyuz T-8, Soyuz T-13, and Soyuz T-15.

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.

Honours and awards

  • Twice Hero of the Soviet Union
  • Pilot-Cosmonaut of the USSR
  • Two Orders of Lenin
  • Medal "For Merit in Space Exploration" (Russian Federation)
  • References

    Aleksandr Pavlovich Aleksandrov Wikipedia