Georgi Stepanowitsch Schonin

Georgi Stepanowitsch Schonin
Country:	Soviet Union
Organization:	AWMF
Call sign:	Антея (Anteja - " Antaios ")
selected on	March 7, 1960 ( 1st cosmonaut group )
Calls:	1 space flight
Begin:	October 11, 1969
Landing:	16th October 1969
Time in space:	4d 22h 42min 47s
retired on	April 28, 1979
Space flights
Soyuz 6 (1969)

Georgy Shonin ( Russian Георгий Степанович Шонин ., Scientific transliteration Georgy Stepanovič Sonin *  3. August 1935 in Rovenki , Oblast Voroshilovgrad , Ukrainian SSR , † 7. April 1997 in zvyozdny gorodok , Moscow Oblast , Russia ) was a Soviet cosmonaut .

Career

Georgi Schonin finished his training as a pilot in 1957 at the military aviation pilot school in Yeisk . After the State Intermediate Commission selected him on March 7, 1960 as a cosmonaut, Schonin began his basic training for OKP cosmonauts in March 1960, which the pilot completed on April 3, 1961. Initially intended for the Vozhod 3 mission, Schonin flew into space as commander with Soyuz 6 , where he took part in the first group flight of three manned spaceships with Soyuz 7 and Soyuz 8 .

Schonin was scheduled to be in command of Soyuz 10 , the first crew to transfer to a space station. Due to alcohol problems, however, he was replaced by Vladimir Shatalov in February 1971 . Schonin lost his flight status, but did not leave the cosmonaut corps until April 18, 1979. He became a department director in the Central Scientific Research Institute of the Soviet Ministry of Defense. Retired in 1990, Schonin held the rank of lieutenant general in the Russian Air Force Reserve. He died on April 7, 1997 of complications from a heart attack .

Schonin was married and had four children.

literature

• Peter Stache: spaceman from A to Z . Military publishing house of the German Democratic Republic, Berlin [East] 1988, ISBN 3-327-00527-3 .

Web links

• Short biography on spacefacts.de
• Biography in the Encyclopedia Astronautica (English)