Alexander Ivanovich Lasutkin

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Alexander Lasutkin
Alexander Lasutkin
Country: Russia
Organization: RKA
selected on March 3, 1992
Calls: 1 space flight
Begin: February 10, 1997
Landing: August 14, 1997
Time in space: 184d 22h 7min
retired on November 22, 2007
Space flights

Alexander Ivanovich Lasutkin ( Russian Александр Иванович Лазуткин ; born October 30, 1957 in Moscow , Russian SFSR , Soviet Union ) is a former Russian cosmonaut .

Career as an engineer

From 1965 to 1971 Lasutkin attended school No. 347 in Moscow's Pervomaiski district, after which he switched to a sports boarding school, which he graduated in 1975. Lasutkin studied mechanical engineering at the Moscow State Aviation Institute from 1975 to 1981 . From April 1981 he worked there as an engineer and switched to NPO Energija on November 14, 1984 .

Career as a cosmonaut

Beginnings

In 1989, Lasutkin applied to be a cosmonaut and was accepted on March 3, 1992. Together with the other engineers Sergei Trestschow and Pawel Vinogradow he formed the 10th Energija cosmonaut group, the first after the collapse of the Soviet Union . He started training at the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in October 1992 and completed it on February 25, 1994.

Training as a flight engineer

On April 1, 1994, Lasutkin was nominated as a replacement flight engineer for the Mir expedition EO-21 and assigned to the commander Vasily Ziblijew , who had recently returned with Soyuz TM-17 from a six-month stay on the Mir space station. The two were not used and were nominated as the main crew of the Mir Expedition EO-23 after the successful launch of Soyuz TM-23 in February 1996. In April 1996, the German ESA astronaut Reinhold Ewald joined the team.

Stay on the Mir

Ziblijew, Lasutkin and Ewald started with Soyuz TM-25 on February 10, 1997 for Mir, which at that time was manned by Valeri Korsun , Alexander Kaleri and NASA astronaut Jerry Linenger .

While the two expeditions were still overlapping, a fire broke out on board the Mir in a defective air purification system on February 23, 1997, but it was extinguished. On March 2, Korsun and Kaleri left the space station with Ewald and returned to Earth with Soyuz TM-24 .

Further breakdowns occurred during the mission. A serious accident occurred on June 25, 1997 while testing the TORU proximity system . The unmanned freighter Progress M-34 rammed the Spektr space station module , causing a pressure drop throughout the space station. Ziblijew, Lasutkin and Foale did not get to safety in their Soyuz spaceship, but hermetically sealed the module by cutting some cables. Since the solar cells of the Spectrum module supplied a large part of the electrical energy for the Mir, not all systems of the space station were subsequently operational.

Years later, Lasutkin stated that the cosmonauts had alcohol on board to “stimulate their immune systems” and “offset harmful effects of the atmosphere”. At first it was cognac , later a liqueur from Siberian ginseng . Both after the fire and after the collision, the space travelers consumed alcohol, but this has not been officially confirmed.

On August 14, 1997, Ziblijew and Lasutkin returned to Earth with Soyuz TM-25. They had spent 184 days in space.

Reserve for another Soyuz flight

When the maiden flight of the new Soyuz TMA spacecraft was due, Lasutkin was nominated as a replacement flight engineer for the Soyuz TMA-1 mission in March 2002 , but was not used.

Training for the ISS

On December 11, 2003, Lasutkin was nominated as a flight engineer for the replacement crew of ISS Expedition 12 , with the prospect of flying into space again with ISS Expedition 14 . He began the training together with the Americans Jeff Williams and Clayton Anderson . On August 9, 2005, Lasutkin suffered a heart attack while studying in Houston and was hospitalized for several days. Thereupon Lasutkin was taken from the team and replaced by Mikhail Tyurin .

additional

On November 22, 2007, Lasutkin resigned from the cosmonaut corps. In November 2006 he switched to the Siberian State University for Aerospace in Krasnoyarsk .

From February 2010, Lasutkin was deputy director of the Cosmonaut Museum in Moscow and was appointed director in July 2011. He said he discovered financial irregularities in the museum soon after he took office. In some cases, exhibits that had been ordered and paid for were never delivered, and in some cases exhibits were stolen by museum staff and then sold back to the museum via detours. On the other hand, museum staff complained about Lasutkin and his personnel policy. The Moscow Culture Office checked these allegations, found them partially justified and released Lasutkin on February 10, 2014.

Private

Lasutkin is married and has two children.

Honors

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b ESA: Aleksandr Ivanovich Lazutkin. September 27, 2002, accessed February 22, 2016 .
  2. ^ Fire on Russian Space Station Doused, but Raises Concern. New York Times, February 25, 1997, accessed February 25, 2016 .
  3. ^ Clay Morgan: Fire and Controversy. In: Mir Space Station. NASA, accessed February 25, 2016 .
  4. ^ Alan Boyle: Alcohol in space? There! NBC News, October 14, 2010, accessed February 22, 2016 .
  5. ↑ astronaut.ru: Александр Иванович Лазуткин. February 11, 2014, accessed February 29, 2016 (Russian).
  6. ↑ СМИ: Героя России Александра Лазуткина уволили с поста директора Музея космонавтики. TASS, February 11, 2014, accessed February 22, 2016 (Russian).
  7. ↑ warheeroes.ru: Лазуткин Александр Иванович. Retrieved February 27, 2016 (Russian).
  8. ↑ Указ Президента Российской Федерации «О награждении медалью" За заслуги в освоении космоса "». (PDF) Kremlin, April 12, 2011, accessed February 27, 2016 (Russian).

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SURNAME Lasutkin, Alexander Ivanovich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Лазуткин, Александр Иванович (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian cosmonaut
DATE OF BIRTH October 30, 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Moscow , Russian SFSR , Soviet Union