From: vsa@msd.orbi.kostroma.su (Voevodin S.A.)
Subject: VSA028: HOT URGENT - Russian cosmonauts for US Shuttle called
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Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1992 23:19:43 GMT


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     *  VSA028       02.10.1992       (c) Sergey  A. Voevodin  *
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            Russian cosmonauts for US Shuttle called


On the 1st of October 1992 Yuri Koptev, Chief of the Russian Space
Agency, called two Russian cosmonauts for the  flight  on  the  US
Shuttle board in October 1993, they are Titov and Krikalyov.

Colonel VLADIMIR GEORGIYEVICH TITOV:

Vladimir Titov was born on January 1, 1947, in Sretensk town of the
Chita region.

He complited secondary school in 1965.

In 1966, he enrolled at the Higher Pilots Training Air Force College
named by Lenin's Komsomol in Chernigov in the Ukraine. On graduating
from the College in 1970 he served as a pilot-instructor at the Col-
lege.

He joined the CPSU in 1971.

>From 1974 he served as a flight-commander of an air regiment.

He had flown 10 different types of airplanes and had logged over 1300
flying hours, he also holds the qualifications of 1st Class Military
Pilot and 3rd Class Military Test-Pilot.

In August 1976 he was selected for the Soviet Cosmonaut Detachment.

>From 1976 until 1978 he underwent General Space Flight Training (OKP)
according to the "Almaz" program.

April 1981 - April 1983 he prepared for Special Mission on the Kosmos-1443
board (the first Soviet Manned "Star" Module).

20 - 22 April 1983 Titov had the first spaceflight with crew Titov/Stre-
kalov/Serebrov on Soyuz T-8 board. The aims of the flight were not fulfilled
because of the Soyuz T Rendezvous Radar Antenna failure. Flight duration was
2 d 00 h 17 m 48 s.

After the flight he was reselected for the 3rd resident mission to Salyut-7.

On 26 September 1983 he and Strekalov were ready for spaceflight on
Soyuz T-10  but space launcher fired and the crew was saved by the Soyuz
launch escape system. Flight duration - 5 m 30 s ( the shortest space
flight all over the world ).

>From May 1983 till December 1984 Titov was in "Pion" Group, the special
military group trained for military Kosmos-1686 with secret purposes.

April 1984 - March 1986 he was in Salyut-7 and Mir training group.

March 1986 - February 1987 Titov and Serebrov tained as the prime crew
for 2nd Mir resident mission but the State Commisson did not assign the
crew for the flight due to Serebrov's health problems right in the cosmo-
drome.

March 1987 - December 1987 Titov continued to prepare for the next Mir
mission with a new Flight Engineer - Manarov.

December 21, 1987 - December 21, 1988 Titov had his second flight on
Mir station board, the flight duration - 365 d 22 h 38 m 57 s

Since the beginning of 1989 Titov is the Deputy Chief of the TsPK Science
Administration.

Since August 1990 he has been preparing for Buran flight.

Titov had 3 EVAs with total duration: 13 hours 47 minutes.



SERGEY KONSTANTINOVICH KRIKALYOV:

Sergey Krikalyov was born on 27 August 1958 in Leningrad (St. Petersburg).

In 1975 he finished  school and the same year he enrolled at the Lenin-
grad Mechanical Institute. He went in for aerobatics in the Institute aero-
club, and was later awarded the title of Master of Sports of the USSR for
airplane sport. He graduated from the Institute in 1981 and began to work
in the Korolyov's Design Bureau.

He never was a member of CPSU.

In November 1985 he was selected for the Soviet Cosmonaut Team.

Until 1988 he was in the Soviet shuttle "Buran" program (OKP).

>From March 1988 till November 1988 Krikalyov trained for the second
Soviet-French flight with Volkov and Chretien.

November 26, 1988 - April 27 1989 he had the first space flight on Mir
station board, flight duration - 151 d 11 h 08 m 23 s.

After the mission Krikalyov was in Buran group again.

In 1990 Sergey Krikalyov was added to Mir group.

>From June 1990 to December 1991 Krikalyov and Artsebarsky trained as
back-up crew for the Mir resident mission.

>From January 1991 till May 1991 they continued their training but as a
prime crew.

May 5 ,1991 - March 25, 1992 Krikalyov had his second space flight,
flight duration more than 310 days.

Krikayov had 6 EVAs with total duration - 31 hours 58 minutes.
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