Rimantas Stankevičius
Rimantas Antanas Stankevičius ( Russian Римантас Антанас Станкявичюс ; born July 26, 1944 in Marijampolė , Lithuanian SSR ; † September 9, 1990 in Salgareda , Italy ) was a Soviet pilot and cosmonaut . He died before he could go on a space flight.
Life
He received his education at the secondary school for military pilots of the air force "Lenin Komsomol" in Chernigov . He was a lieutenant colonel in the reserve of the Soviet Air Force and a civilian test pilot of the LII .
Stankevičius was selected on December 1, 1978 as one of five pilots for the planned space shuttle Buran . He received his basic training from February 1979 to February 1982. He was intended as copilot for the first manned space flight from Buran. By 1989 he had completed a total of 14 atmospheric flights with the space shuttle prototype OK-GLI , most of them together with Igor Wolk .
On September 9, 1990, Stankevičius had a fatal accident when a Su-27 crashed during an air show in Salgareda in the Italian province of Treviso due to a loop that was performed too deeply, and one of the organizers of the air show was also killed on the ground.
Web links
- Rimantas Stankevičius in the encyclopedia of cosmonautics (Russian)
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| SURNAME | Stankevičius, Rimantas |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Stankevičius, Rimantas Antanas-Antono (full name); Станкявичюс, Римантас Антанас (Russian) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Soviet pilot and cosmonaut |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 26, 1944 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Marijampolė , Lithuanian SSR |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 9, 1990 |
| Place of death | Salgareda , Treviso Province , Italy |