Yevgeny Wassiljewitsch Chrunow
| Yevgeny Khrunov | |
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| Country: |
 Soviet Union
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| Organization: | WWS |
| selected on | March 7, 1960 (1st cosmonaut group) |
| Calls: | 1 space flight |
| Begin: | 15th January 1969 |
| Landing: | 17th January 1969 |
| Time in space: | 1d 23h 45min |
| EVA inserts: | 1 |
| EVA total duration: | 37 min |
| retired on | December 1980 |
| Space flights | |
Evgeni Wassiljewitsch Chrunow ( Russian Евгений Васильевич Хрунов ; born September 10, 1933 in Prudy in the Tula Oblast ; † May 19, 2000 in Moscow ) was a Soviet cosmonaut .
Life
After school he received training at an agricultural college. He later joined the Red Army and was trained at a military aviation school. In 1960 he was selected for the first cosmonaut group of the USSR . He was being discussed as a replacement pilot for Vostok 5 , but was not nominated.
From the summer of 1964 he was trained for spacecraft operations together with Alexei Leonow . Eventually Leonov was preferred and Chrunow was substituted for the Voschod 2 mission , during which Leonov became the first person to leave a spacecraft in March 1965. Chrunov was also a substitute for the commandant Pavel Belyayev .
From September 1965 Chrunow was trained on the new Soyuz spacecraft , where he belonged to the group of the first eight cosmonauts for whom a new spacesuit should be made, which spoke for an early nomination.
In April 1967 he was supposed to take part in a spectacular double flight of two Soyuz spaceships. The plan was for Vladimir Komarov to start first with Soyuz 1 , and a day later the three cosmonauts Bykowski , Chrunow and Jelissejew with Soyuz 2A . Chrunov and Jelissejew were to transfer from one spacecraft to the other in orbit and land with Komarov.
However, after take-off, Soyuz 1 encountered massive problems, which led to the flight being aborted and Soyuz 2A's mission to be canceled . Soyuz 1's parachutes failed on landing and Komarov was killed on impact. The investigations revealed that the Soyuz 2A parachute system also had the same flaw. The massive problems during the Soyuz 1 flight had saved the lives of Chrunov and his two comrades.
In 1968, Chrunov graduated from the Engineering Academy of the Air Force of the USSR.
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The planned switch from one spaceship to the other took place two years later than originally planned. Chrunow took off on January 15, 1969 for his first space flight. On board Soyuz 5 were Alexej Jelissejew , who was already scheduled with him for the canceled flight of Soyuz 2A , and the commander Boris Wolynow .
The spaceship Soyuz 4, launched the day before, with Vladimir Schatalov on board, carried out the first coupling of two manned spaceships in space as an active spaceship with Soyuz 5 . As planned, Chrunov and Jelissejew switched to Soyuz 4 during an external mission . Chrunov was thus the seventh person to leave his spaceship in space.
In the following years Chrunow was trained to work in the Salyut space station . Only after many years was he again nominated for a mission. During the flight from Soyuz 38 to the Salyut 6 space station , he was a substitute for the commander Yuri Romanenko . During this mission in September 1980, a cosmonaut from Cuba flew into space for the first time .
Chrunov left the Soviet space agency at the end of 1980. He died at the age of 66. Chrunov was married and had two sons.
See also
- List of spacemen
- First cosmonaut group in the Soviet Union
- List of space exits
- List of Soyuz missions
Web links
- Short biography on spacefacts.de
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Chrunow, Evgeni Wassiljewitsch |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Хрунов, Евгений Васильевич (Russian spelling) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | soviet cosmonaut |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 10, 1933 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Prudy , Tula Oblast , Soviet Union |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 19, 2000 |
| Place of death | Moscow |