Aleksandr Pavlovich Aleksandrov

Template:Short description Template:Distinguish Template:Infobox astronaut Aleksandr Pavlovich Aleksandrov (Template:Langx; born February 20, 1943)<ref name=SFbio>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> is a former Soviet cosmonaut and twice Hero of the Soviet Union (November 23, 1983, and December 29, 1987).

Biography

Born in Moscow, Russia, he graduated from Moscow Bauman-Highschool in 1969 with a doctorate degree, specialised on spacecraft steering systems.<ref name=EA-bio>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

He was selected as cosmonaut on December 1, 1978.<ref name=SFbio/> For his first spaceflight, he flew as Flight Engineer on Soyuz T-9, which lasted from June to November 1983. For his second spaceflight, he replaced one of the long-duration crew members of Mir EO-2. For the spaceflight, he was launched with the spacecraft Soyuz TM-3 in July 1987, and landed with the same spacecraft in December 1987. All together he spent 309 days, 18 hours, 2 minutes in space.<ref name=SFbio/> He served as backup for Soyuz T-8, Soyuz T-13, and Soyuz T-15.<ref name=SFbio/>

He resigned from the cosmonaut team on October 26, 1993, when he became chief of NPOE Cosmonaut-group; since 1996 he is Chief flight test directorate of RKKE. He is married with two children.<ref name=SFbio/>

Honours and awards

• Twice Hero of the Soviet Union
• Pilot-Cosmonaut of the USSR
• Two Orders of Lenin
• Medal "For Merit in Space Exploration" (Russian Federation)

References

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