Vladimir Georgievich Titov
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 Soviet Union Russia
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| selected on | 23rd August 1976 |
| Calls: | 4 space flights |
| Start of the first space flight: |
April 20, 1983 |
| Landing of the last space flight: |
October 6, 1997 |
| Time in space: | 387d 0h 45min |
| EVA inserts: | 4th |
| EVA total duration: | 18h 48min |
| retired on | August 1998 |
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Wladimir Georgijewitsch Titow ( Russian Владимир Георгиевич Титов , scientific transliteration Vladimir Georgievič Titov ; born January 1, 1947 in Sretensk , Chita Oblast , Russian SFSR ) is a former Soviet and Russian spaceman / cosmonaut.
Titov left school in 1965, worked temporarily in an oil production facility and operated the drill pipe before he became a professional soldier. From 1966 he attended the College for Pilots of the Air Force in Chernigov ( Ukraine ), which he successfully completed four years later. He remained at the air force base as a pilot instructor until 1974 and was then commander of the regiment that gave the cosmonauts flight instruction.
Cosmonaut activity
In August 1976 Titov was accepted into the cosmonaut squad with the sixth group. His first excursion into space took place with Gennady Strekalov and Alexander Serebrov in April 1983. He headed the Soyuz T-8 company , which was supposed to repair the defective solar sails of the Salyut 7 space station launched a year earlier . Since all attempts to couple failed, the flight was canceled after only two days.
Titow and Strekalow were to undertake their next flight six months later, on September 26, 1983, with the Soyuz T-10-1 . But just a minute before the scheduled start, a defective fuel line caught fire - an explosion threatened. After several unsuccessful attempts, the control center managed to manually trigger the rescue system, which blew the two cosmonauts off the rocket. After five and a half minutes, they landed safely around four kilometers from the ramp.
Titov used the time up to his next space flight as a graduate of the military academy of the air forces "JA Gagarin" in Monino . He completed the three-year officer course in 1987.
Three and a half years after his debut, Titov actually set off on his second mission with Soyuz TM-4 . Together with Mussa Manarov and Anatoly Levtschenko , he took off for the Mir space station on December 21, 1987 . While Levchenko returned to Earth after just a week, Manarov and Titov spent a full year in near-Earth space for the first time. During their stay, they left the station three times to carry out repairs and other work: at the end of February 1988 they exchanged a solar module in four and a half hours and four months later they replaced a defective detector on an X-ray telescope . However, this did not work correctly and so they got out again in October 1988 to repair the telescope. On December 21, 1988, the two cosmonauts landed back on earth and set a new record with just under 366 days in earth orbit.
One month after the signing of a space agreement between Russia and the United States , Titov and Sergei Krikalev arrived at the Johnson Space Center in November 1992 to prepare for a mission on the space shuttle . The cooperation agreement included sending a NASA astronaut on a long-term flight of over 90 days on board the Mir space station and having a cosmonaut fly on board the STS-60 shuttle flight .
Both cosmonauts initially trained equally for participation in the US space flight until the beginning of April 1993, when the choice fell on Krikalev. After that, Titow acted as a substitute for STS-60, but got his "own" shuttle flight from NASA in September 1993: he flew as a mission specialist with the STS-63 mission in February 1995. A US space shuttle approached the company for the first time the Russian space station. Me and Discovery had an eleven-meter rendezvous. In the further course of the flight Titov deployed the SPARTAN platform and caught it again after two days.
Titov then headed training at the Yuri Gagarin cosmonaut training center before undertaking his fourth and final space flight, which again took him to the Mir space station. STS-86 was carried out by the orbiter Atlantis in the fall of 1997 and brought a new crew member to the station in addition to supplies. The scheduled change of guard was carried out by David Wolf , who replaced his colleague Michael Foale after more than four months . During the eleven-day flight, Titow and his American colleague Scott Parazynski disembarked for five hours and carried out maintenance work.
Private
Titow and his wife Alexandra have a son and a daughter.
Awards
- Hero of the Soviet Union (1988)
- Order of Lenin (1983 and 1988)
- Commander of the Legion of Honor (1988)
- US Harmon Prize (1990), together with Mussa Manarow
See also
Web links
- Short biography of Wladimir Georgijewitsch Titow at spacefacts.de
- Biography of Vladimir Georgievich Titov in the Encyclopedia Astronautica (English)
- Biography of Vladimir Georgievich Titov at the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center (Russian)
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Titov, Vladimir Georgievich |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Титов, Владимир Георгиевич (Russian) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | soviet and russian cosmonaut |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 1, 1947 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Sretensk , Chita Oblast , Russian SFSR |