Leonid Denisovich Kisim
Leonid Denisovich Kisim | |
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Leonid Kisim, W. Solowjew and Oleg Atkow (from left to right) | |
Country: | USSR |
Call sign: | Маяк (Mayak - "beacon") |
selected on | October 23, 1965 |
Calls: | 3 space flights |
Start of the first space flight: |
November 27, 1980 |
Landing of the last space flight: |
July 16, 1986 |
Time in space: | 374d 17h 57min 46s |
EVA inserts: | 8th |
EVA total duration: | 31h 40min |
retired on | June 13, 1987 |
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Leonid Denissowitsch Kisim ( Russian Леонид Денисович Кизим , scientific transliteration Leonid Denisovič Kizim ; born August 5, 1941 in Krasnyj Lyman , Donetsk Oblast , Ukrainian SSR ; † June 14, 2010 in Moscow ) was a Soviet cosmonaut .
Life
The test pilot and parachutist of the Soviet Air Force graduated from the Higher Military Aviation School in Chernigov . After Kisim was selected by the cosmonaut training center on October 23, 1965, he completed the OKP basic cosmonaut training from November 1965 to December 1967 . In the following years, Kisim was a substitute for several Soyuz missions until he took off into space on November 27, 1980 as the commander of the ninth visiting team from Salyut 6 with the Soyuz T-3 . In 1984 he flew as the commander of the third regular crew of Salyut 7 , Salyut 7 EO-3 , with Soyuz T-10 . On October 2, 1984, he returned with the Soyuz T-11 . His stay lasted 236 days. During this time, Kisim undertook six spacecraft missions , mainly for repairs and extensions to Salyut 7.
The last time the pilot flew in 1986 as the commander of the first regular crew of the Mir space station with a Soyuz T-15 . On this mission, Kisim undertook two outboard work to erect Mir's lattice mast and to salvage experiments.
After Leonid Kisim left the cosmonaut corps on June 13, 1987, he became the deputy director of the satellite control center of the Soviet Ministry of Defense. From May 1995 until his retirement in 2001, Leonid Kisim was Director of the Military Aerospace Engineering Academy in Saint Petersburg . Since then he has been Colonel General of the Reserve of the Russian Air Force and thus achieved the same rank as German Titov before .
Kisim was married and had two children. His daughter was born when he was in space, he only saw her when she was four months old.
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
- Short biography ( memento from September 12, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) on space.kursknet.ru (English / Russian)
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Kisim, Leonid Denisovich |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Кизим, Леонид Денисович (Russian) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | soviet cosmonaut, pilot |
DATE OF BIRTH | August 5, 1941 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Krasnyj Lyman , Donetsk Oblast , Ukrainian SSR , Soviet Union |
DATE OF DEATH | June 14, 2010 |
Place of death | Moscow |