Alexander Sergejewitsch Ivanchenkov
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| Country: | USSR |
| Organization: | RKK |
| Call sign: | Фотон-2 ( Foton 2 ) Памир-2 ( Pamir 2 ) |
| selected on | 1970 / March 27, 1973 |
| Calls: | 2 space flights |
| Start of the first space flight: |
June 15, 1978 |
| Landing of the last space flight: |
2nd July 1982 |
| Time in space: | 147 d 12 h 38 min 24 s |
| EVA inserts: | 1 |
| EVA total duration: | 2 h 5 min |
| retired on | 3rd November 1993 |
| Space flights | |
Alexander Sergejewitsch Iwantschenkow ( Russian Александр Сергеевич Иванченков ; born September 28, 1940 in Iwantejewka , Moscow Oblast , Russian SFSR ) is a former Soviet cosmonaut .
education
The engineer graduated from the Moscow State Aviation Institute of the Ministry of Aviation Industry.
Astronaut activity
Admitted to the cosmonaut program in 1970, he was selected as a cosmonaut on March 27, 1973 by the State Intermediate Commission. In 1975 Ivanchenkov was a member of the support team for the Apollo Soyuz project . He was a substitute for other Soyuz missions. At the same time Alexander Ivanchenkov was employed as an engineer at NPO Energija .
In 1978, Alexander Ivanchenkov flew as a flight engineer from Soyuz 29 with Vladimir Kovaljonok as the second permanent crew to the Salyut 6 space station . On July 29, 1978, Ivanchenkov conducted an EVA to recover equipment and experiments. During their time on board Salyut 6, they received visitors from Soyuz 30 ( Pjotr Klimuk and Mirosław Hermaszewski ). As the lifespan of the Soyuz 29 spaceship was nearing its end, the next visiting crew ( Valery Bykowski and Sigmund Jähn ) brought Soyuz 31 a new spaceship and took Soyuz 29 back to Earth. Kowaljonok and Ivanchenkov landed with Soyuz 31 after 139 days in space. With that they had set a new all-time record in space.
Ivanchenkov completed his second space flight in 1982, also as a flight engineer for the first visiting team from Salyut 7 . The feeder ship was the Soyuz T-6 . As the companion of the first French cosmonaut Jean-Loup Chrétien , he was made a Knight of the Legion of Honor .
Alexander Ivanchenkov was accepted as a cosmonaut in the Buran program and completed his first training. After the project was abandoned in 1993, Ivanchenkov left the cosmonaut corps.
Since November 3rd, 1993 Ivanchenkov has been the deputy director of department 29 of the main design office at RKK Energija.
Ivanchenkov is married and has one daughter.
Awards (selection)
- Hero of the Soviet Union , 1978, 1982
- Order of Lenin , 1978, 1982
- Hero of the GDR , 1978
- Leibniz Medal , 1979
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
- Short biography on spacefacts.de
- Александр Сергеевич Иванченков on astronaut.ru
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Ivanchenkov, Alexander Sergejewitsch |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Иванченков, Александр Сергеевич (Russian) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Soviet cosmonaut, engineer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 28, 1940 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Ivanteevka , Russian SFSR |