Aleksandr Serebrov

Nationality Soviet / Russian Role Cosmonaut Time in space 372d 22h 52m First space flight Soyuz T-7		Selection 1978 Intercosmos Group Other occupation Flight engineer Name Aleksandr Serebrov

Born February 15, 1944 Moscow, USSR (1944-02-15) Died November 12, 2013, Moscow, Russia Space missions Soyuz T-8, Soyuz TM-8, Soyuz T-7, Soyuz TM-17 Education Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology Similar People Aleksandr Viktorenko, Gennadi Strekalov, Leonid Popov, Svetlana Savitskaya, Vladimir Georgiyevich Titov

Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Serebrov (Russian: Алекса́ндр Алекса́ндрович Серебро́в, February 15, 1944 – November 12, 2013) was a Soviet cosmonaut. He graduated from Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (1967), and was selected as a cosmonaut on December 1, 1978. He retired on May 10, 1995. He was married and had one child.

He flew on Soyuz T-7, Soyuz T-8, Soyuz TM-8 and Soyuz TM-17. He was one of very few cosmonauts to fly for both the Soviet Union and the Russian Federation that followed it. He held the record for most spacewalks, 10, until Anatoly Solovyev surpassed it. In all, Serebrov spent 371.95 days in space. Serebrov contributed to the design of Salyut 6, Salyut 7, and the Mir space stations. He helped design, and, according to a New York Times obituary, "was the first to test a one-person vehicle - popularly called a space motorcycle - to rescue space crews in distress and repair satellites." This vehicle, known as Icarus, was tested in February 1990, and remained onboard Mir for several years but was never used after that.