Yuri Nikolajewitsch Glaskow
Yuri Nikolajewitsch Glaskow | |
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Country: | USSR |
selected on | October 23, 1965 |
Calls: | 1 space flight |
Begin: | 7th February 1977 |
Landing: | February 25, 1977 |
Time in space: | 17d 17h 25min 58s |
retired on | January 26, 1982 |
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Yuri Nikolajewitsch Glaskow ( Russian Юрий Николаевич Глазков ; born October 2, 1939 in Moscow , Russian SFSR , USSR ; † December 9, 2008 in Moscow, Russia ) was a Soviet cosmonaut and officer in the Soviet and Russian air forces .
The doctor of engineering was a parachutist with the Soviet airborne troops. After Glaskow was selected as a cosmonaut by the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center on October 23, 1965 , he completed basic cosmonaut training from November 1965 to December 1967. With Viktor Wassiljewitsch Gorbatko he formed the support team for Soyuz 21 and the replacement team for Soyuz 23 . In 1977 Glaskow and Gorbatko finally flew into space with Soyuz 24 themselves.
After leaving the cosmonaut corps on January 26, 1982, Yuri Glaskow was appointed deputy director of flight affairs at the Gagarin training center. In 1989 Glaskow was promoted to major general in the Soviet Air Force. Glaskow later left the Russian air force and was first deputy head of the Yuri Gagarin cosmonaut training center until May 2000. He then worked as a research assistant at the “Russian State Scientific Research Institute” of the Cosmonaut Training Center.
Glaskow was married and had two 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 .
swell
- spacefacts.de: Short biography
- Notice of death accessed December 9, 2008
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SURNAME | Glaskow, Yuri Nikolajewitsch |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Глазков, Юрий Николаевич (Russian) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | soviet cosmonaut |
DATE OF BIRTH | October 2, 1939 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Moscow , Russian SFSR, Soviet Union |
DATE OF DEATH | December 9, 2008 |
Place of death | Moscow , Russia |