Anatoli Levchenko

Anatoli Semyonovich Levchenko
Cosmonaut
Nationality Soviet
Born May 5, 1941
Krasnokutsk, Ukrainian SSR, USSR (now Ukraine)
Died 6 August 1988(1988-08-06) (aged 47)
Moscow, Russian SFSR, USSR
Other occupation Test Pilot
Rank Captain, Soviet Air Force
Time in space 7d 21h 58m
Selection 1988 Cosmonaut Group
Missions Mir LII-1 (Soyuz TM-4 / Soyuz TM-3)

Anatoli Semyonovich Levchenko (born on May 5, 1941 in Krasnokutsk, Kharkiv Oblast, USSR - August 6, 1988 in Moscow, USSR) was a Soviet cosmonaut.

Levchenko was planned to be the back-up commander of the first Buran space shuttle flight, and in March 1987 he began extensive training for a Soyuz spaceflight, intended to give him some experience in space. [1] In December 1987, he occupied the third seat aboard the spacecraft Soyuz TM-4 to the space station Mir, and returned to Earth about a week later on Soyuz TM-3. His mission is sometimes called Mir LII-1, after the Gromov Flight Research Institute shorthand.[2] In the year following his spaceflight, Levchenko died of a brain tumor, in the Nikolay Burdenko Neurosurgical Institute in Moscow.[3]

Selected as a cosmonaut on July 12, 1980.[4] He was married with one child.[4]

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References

  1. ^ Hendrickx, Bart; Bert Vis (2007-10-04). Energiya-Buran : The Soviet Space Shuttle. Praxis. pp. 526. ISBN 0387698485. 
  2. ^ "Mir LII-1". Encyclopedia Astronautica. http://www.astronautix.com/flights/mirlii1.htm. Retrieved 15 November 2010. 
  3. ^ "Levchenko". Encyclopedia Astronautica. http://www.astronautix.com/astros/levhenko.htm. Retrieved 26 November 2010. 
  4. ^ a b "Cosmonaut Biography: Anatoli Levchenko". spacefacts.de. http://www.spacefacts.de/bios/cosmonauts/english/levchenko_anatoli.htm. Retrieved 26 November 2010.