Alexander Pavlovich Alexandrov

Alexander Alexandrov
Country:	USSR
selected on	December 1, 1978
Calls:	2 space flights
Start of the first space flight:	June 27, 1983
Landing of the last space flight:	December 30, 1987
Time in space:	309d 18h ​​02min
EVA inserts:	2
EVA total duration:	5h 44min
retired on	October 1993
Space flights
Soyuz T-9 (1983) Soyuz TM-3 (1987)

Alexander Pavlovich Alexandrow ( Russian Александр Павлович Александров ; born February 20, 1943 in Moscow ) is a former Soviet cosmonaut .

education

The Moscow State Technical University "N. E. Bauman ” awarded Alexandrov a doctorate in 1969. His specialty was the attitude control of satellites .

Astronaut activity

On December 1, 1978, Alexandrov was selected as a cosmonaut. After he was on the backup team for Soyuz T-8 , he flew into space as a flight engineer with Soyuz T-9 . After that he was a member of the Soyuz T-13 and Soyuz T-15 double teams . With Soyuz TM-3 he flew into space for the second time. He was in space for a total of 309 days and 18 hours.

Subsequent activity

After Alexandrov retired from active service on October 26, 1993, he became head of the RKK Energija cosmonaut corps . From 1996 to 2006 he headed the flight test department and has since been an advisor to the President of RKK Energija.

Private

Alexandrov is married with two children, one son died in 2000.

literature

• Peter Stache: spaceman from A to Z . Military publishing house of the German Democratic Republic, Berlin 1988, ISBN 3-327-00527-3 .

Web links

• spacefacts.de: Short biography
• space.kursknet.ru: Short biography (English / Russian)