Aleksandr Laveykin

Template:Short description Template:Infobox astronaut Aleksandr Ivanovich Laveykin (Template:Langx; born April 21, 1951<ref name=SFbio>Template:Cite web</ref>) is a retired Soviet cosmonaut.

Biography

Born in Moscow, Laveykin was selected as a cosmonaut on December 1, 1978.<ref name=SFbio/> He flew on one spaceflight, for the first part of the long duration expedition Mir EO-2. He flew as a flight engineer, and was both launched and landed with the spacecraft Soyuz TM-2. He spent 174 days 3 hours 25 minutes in space.<ref name=SFbio/><ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Married with one child, Laveykin retired on March 28, 1994.<ref name=SFbio/>

Launched in February 1987, his spaceflight was intended to last until December 1987, but doctors on the ground determined that he was having minor heart irregularities.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> For this reason, in July he was replaced by Soviet cosmonaut Aleksandr Pavlovich Aleksandrov, who stayed on Mir to the end of the expedition in December.