Alexander Alexandrovich Serebrov

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Alexander Serebrov
Alexander Serebrov
Alexander Serebrow in April 2011
Country: USSR / Russia
Organization: RKA
selected on December 1, 1978
Calls: 4 space flights
Start of the
first space flight: 		19th August 1982
Landing of the
last space flight: 		January 14, 1994
Time in space: 372 d 22 h 54 min
EVA inserts: 10
EVA total duration: 31 h 49 min
retired on May 10, 1995
Space flights

Alexander Alexandrowitsch Serebrov ( Russian Александр Александрович Серебров , scientific transliteration Aleksandr Aleksandrovič Serebrov ; born February 15, 1944 in Moscow , Russian SFSR ; †  November 12, 2013 ibid) was a Soviet cosmonaut .

Life

Start of career

After graduating from school in 1961, Serebrov studied at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT) until 1967 . He graduated there in 1970 and 1974 from the University of Marxism-Leninism. From September 1970 Serebrow worked as an assistant in the "Physical Mechanics" department of the MIPT.

In December 1974, Serebrow received the degree of candidate in engineering sciences . His thesis dealt with "Heat protection problems of a manned spacecraft when it penetrates the earth's atmosphere after a flight to Mars".

From August 1976 to December 1978 Serebrov worked at the design office NPO Energija , where he was involved in the development and testing of spacecraft. During this time he also went through the selection process for cosmonauts.

Spaceman activity

Selection and basic training

On December 1, 1978, Serebrow was accepted as a cosmonaut candidate. He went through the training together with six other engineers from Energija, four engineers from ZKBM (formerly OKB-52) , two pilots and three doctors. He passed his final exam on October 5, 1980.

First flight in 1982

Serebrow's first space flight took place on August 19-27, 1982 with the Salyut 7 EP-2 mission. Together with Leonid Popov and Svetlana Savitskaya , he flew in the Soyuz T-7 spacecraft to the Salyut 7 space station , which at the time was manned by the first long-term crew Anatoly Berezovoi and Valentin Lebedev . The return flight was with a Soyuz T-5 .

Second flight 1983

In December 1982 Serebrov was assigned to the replacement crew for the next long-term flight Salyut 7 EO-2. In March 1983 he moved up to the main team and replaced Irina Pronina there .

So he made his second space flight after just eight months. The launch with the Soyuz T-8 spacecraft took place on April 20, 1983, together with Vladimir Titov and Gennady Strekalov . The coupling with the Salyut 7 space station failed, however, so that the flight had to be canceled. The landing took place on April 22, 1983.

New assignments

From September 1984 Serebrov was again in training for a flight to Salyut 7. He was assigned to Commander Moskalenko and flight engineer Solovyov . From September 1985 he was reassigned to Commandant Titov and trained for a long stay on board the new Mir space station , which was launched on February 19, 1986.

Titov and Serebrov should have formed the second long-term crew and should have started with Soyuz TM-2 , but Serebrov fell ill, so that the crews were exchanged in January 1987. Instead of Titov and Serebrov, the substitutes Romanenko and Lawejkin flew . Titov then commanded the third long-term crew.

Replacement for TM-5 and TM-7

At the end of 1987, Serebrow resumed preparations for a mission on the Mir. From January 1988 he trained as a substitute for the fourth long-term crew for the Mir, together with Commander Viktorenko . The team also included the French Tognini , the substitute for the Soviet-French Mir-Aragatz mission .

In March 1988, while preparing for the mission, Serebrow was assigned a second flight as a substitute. During the Soviet-Bulgarian Mir EP-2 mission, substitute Andrei Saizew fell ill, and Serebrov moved into the substitute team there, so that he had to prepare for two flights at the same time.

Mir EP-2 took place in June 1988 with Soyuz TM-5 and Soyuz TM-4 , and Serebrov was not used. The start of the fourth long-term mission with Soyuz TM-7 also took place in November 1988 without Serebrov.

Third flight in 1989

For the fifth Mir long-term crew, Serebrov moved up to the main team together with Viktorenko in December 1988. The flight originally planned for April 1989 was delayed due to problems with the Soyuz spacecraft Soyuz TM-8 . The fourth crew, Volkov , Krikalev and Polyakov, had to leave the space station because their Soyuz TM-7 spacecraft had expired. I stayed unmanned for several months.

Soyuz TM-8 was launched on September 5, 1989. Two days later, Viktorenko and Serebrov docked with the unmanned space station and put it back into operation.

On December 6, 1989, Mir was expanded by adding the Kwant 2 module . Viktorenko and Serebrow had to manually align Mir because the automatic control had failed.

Serebrow performed five space exits totaling over 17 hours. In the first, a star sensor was mounted on Kwant 2 on January 8, 1990, and in the second, on January 11, experiments on the outside of Mir were obtained.

The third exit on January 26th was used to test the new Orlan DMA spacesuit . During the fourth exit on February 1, 1990, Serebrow tested the SPK rocket backpack . He moved up to 33 m away from Mir, but was secured by a line. On the fifth exit on February 5, Serebrow assisted Viktorenko's test with the SPK.

Fourth flight 1993/94

From February 1993, Serebrov was again preparing for a space flight, this time together with Vasily Ziblijew as the 14th long-term crew of the Mir. The Frenchman Jean-Pierre Haigneré , who was on board for the short-term Mir-Altair mission , also belonged to the team .

The start with Soyuz TM-17 took place on July 1, 1993. Serebrov was only the third Russian with four space flights after Vladimir Dschanibekow and Gennady Strekalov .

Again, Serebrow performed five space exits , this time with a total duration of over 14 hours. Among other things, Ziblijew and Serebrow built a new lattice structure to accommodate additional experiments.

After landing on January 14, 1994, Serebrow had spent 372 days in space, moving up to 7th place in the ranking of the most experienced space travelers.

After the astronaut work

Serebrow resigned from the cosmonaut corps on May 10, 1995 for reasons of age. He became a consultant for space affairs with the Russian President's advisor, J. Shaposhnikov.

Private

Serebrow was married with one child. On his mother's side, he was of Polish descent and spoke Polish fluently.

Awards

Serebrov received various Soviet awards, including the title Hero of the Soviet Union . He also received French and Bulgarian awards. On November 8, 2019, an asteroid was named after him: (365375) Serebrov .

See also

Web links

Commons : Alexander Alexandrovich Serebrov  - Collection of images

supporting documents

  1. ↑ Советский космонавт Александр Серебров скончался на 70-м году жизни , Russian , accessed November 12, 2013
personal data
SURNAME Serebrov, Alexander Alexandrovich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Серебров, Александр Александрович (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION soviet cosmonaut
DATE OF BIRTH February 15, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Moscow , Russian SFSR
DATE OF DEATH November 12, 2013
Place of death Moscow