Gennady Vasilyevich Sarafanov

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Gennady Sarafanov
Country: USSR
selected on October 23, 1965
Calls: 1 space flight
Begin: August 26, 1974
Landing: August 28, 1974
Time in space: 2d 0h 12min
retired on July 1986
Space flights
Gennady Vasilyevich Sarafanov (left) and Lev Stepanovich Djomin (Soviet postage stamp, 1974)

Gennadi Wassiljewitsch Sarafanow ( Russian Геннадий Васильевич Сарафанов , scientific transliteration Gennadij Vasil'evič Sarafanov ; born January 1, 1942 in Sinenkije , Saratov Oblast , Russian SFSR ; † September 29, 2005 ) was a Soviet cosaut .

Sarafanow was born in January 1942 in the Russian village of Sinenkije near Saratow . He joined the Soviet Army and after a year he joined the Air Force at the age of 18. He became a fighter pilot in a Guard Aviation Regiment before being selected as a member of the National Space Program's third Air Force Group in November 1965 .

After he completed his first cosmonaut training program in 1967 and was appointed to the Soyuz group in 1972, he was named for the Soyuz 13 flight along with Lev Djomin . However, the flight was canceled because the mission target, the Salyut 2 space station , got out of control in orbit. Djomin and Sarafanov were then appointed as replacement crews for the Soyuz 14 mission , before they set off for the first time with Soyuz 15.

Sarafanov was the commander of the unsuccessful mission to the Salyut 3 space station in 1974 and flew the Soyuz 15 mission together with the engineer Lev Stepanowitsch Djomin . It was planned that the two spacemen would act as a second crew on the first military space station of the Soviet Union . But the control system of their Soyuz spaceship failed in the final phase of the flight. They therefore had to return to Earth on August 28, 1974 - just two days after their launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome .

During the early 1980s he was named to fly a planned manned version of the TKS spacecraft , but his mission was also canceled as the TKS did not make manned flights. The development of the TKS system later became the basis for the Russian module Zarya of the international space station .

Sarafanov remained a member of the Soviet space program until July 1986.

He died on Thursday, September 29, 2005 from a complication during an operation. He was 63 years old and left behind his wife and two children.

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SURNAME Sarafanov, Gennady Wassiljewitsch
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Сарафанов, Геннадий Васильевич (Russian); Sarafanov, Gennady
BRIEF DESCRIPTION soviet cosmonaut
DATE OF BIRTH January 1, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Sinenkije , Russian SFSR
DATE OF DEATH September 29, 2005