Gennady Michailowitsch Strekalov

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Gennady Strekalov
Gennady Strekalov
Country: USSR / Russia
selected on March 27, 1973
Calls: 5 space flights
Start of the
first space flight: 		November 27, 1980
Landing of the
last space flight: 		July 7, 1995
Time in space: 268d 22h 22min
EVA inserts: 4th
EVA total duration: 22h 7min
retired on July 1995
Space flights

Gennadi Strekalov ( Russian Геннадий Михайлович Стрекалов ., Scientific transliteration Gennady Michajlovič Strekalov * 28. October 1940 in Mytishchi , Moscow Oblast , Russian SFSR ; † 25. December 2004 in Moscow ) was a Soviet cosmonaut and was part of the crew of the space station Mir .

Strekalov studied engineering for the Soviet missile program at the Moscow State Technological University. He had been in the service of the Russian space authorities since March 27, 1973 and took off on his first flight into space in 1980. By January 17, 1995, he had participated in a total of five Soviet space missions. He was part of the Soyuz missions from 1987 to 2002, and from 1990 to 1995 he was a member of the Russian Mir regular crews. In total, he was in space for 268 days, 22 hours and 22 minutes during his life. Strekalow has received many awards. After his first flight in 1980 he received the highest honor in the USSR, the title " Hero of the Soviet Union ".

Strekalov became known worldwide in September 1983 when he and Vladimir Titov were able to save themselves at the last second. At that time, they were supposed to launch into space from the Baikonur spaceport when the Soyuz launcher caught fire on the launch pad just over a minute before the engines ignited due to leaking fuel. A few seconds before the rocket exploded (which led to the destruction of the launch site), the emergency rescue system brought the Soyuz T-10-1 landing capsule with the two cosmonauts out of the danger zone.

For his last Mir EO-18 mission , Strekalov flew back to Mir on the Soyuz TM-21 mission . For the first time, an American astronaut was on board a Soyuz capsule. He completed the return flight to Earth with the Space Shuttle Atlantis on the STS-71 mission . During this Mir mission, he caused a stir again: For safety reasons, he refused to carry out an unscheduled spacecraft mission in which he should have loosened a jammed solar panel. As a result, the state removed some of his benefits. Strekalov went to court and won the dispute against his former employer.

In 1995 the space veteran retired. On December 25, 2004, Strekalov died of cancer in Moscow.

Web links

Commons : Gennadi Strekalow  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Peter Bond: Obituary: Gennady Strekalov - Cosmonaut on near-fatal missions. The Independent , January 3, 2005, accessed February 26, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Strekalov, Gennady Mikhailovich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Стрекалов, Геннадий Михайлович (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Soviet spaceman
DATE OF BIRTH October 28, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Mytishchi , Moscow Oblast
DATE OF DEATH December 25, 2004
Place of death Moscow