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Personal: Male. Born in Zhuravka, Voronezh, Russia. Soviet Air Force Graduated from Air Force Navigation School, 1957 Soviet Air Force. Soviet Air Force. Astronaut Career Astronaut Group: Air Force Group 4 - 1967. Inactive Entered space service: 7 May 1967. Left space service: 4 December 1978. Cosmonaut training May 1967 - 18 August 1969. Retired due to medical reasons (injured during parachute training). Worked as an engineer until 1988, when he retired from all work for medical reasons.
Gaidukov Chronology 12 April 1967 - Soviet Air Force Cosmonaut Training Group 4 selected.. 8 December 1967 - TsKBEM confirms Mishin's decision to cancel Soyuz VI. Mishin is away on 'cure' for his drinking problem. A 'Podlipki Soviet' is held at TsKBEM. The issue is cancellation of Kozlov's 7K-VI military Soyuz. Bushuyev, Chertok, Okhapkin, Feoktistov are in favour of cancelling it. Opposed are Karas, Shcheulov, Kostonin, Gaidukov, and the various military representatives at the meeting. It was now six years since OKB-1 was required to put a military manned spacecraft into space - and, factually speaking, nothing has been done. Military experiments proposed for each manned flight by OKB-1 to date had been rejected on various grounds - no weight, no space aboard the spacecraft. Good progress has been made with Kozlov's VI and Chelomei's Almaz - now they've managed to kill the VI, and Mishin and Kerimov are constantly denigrating Almaz (saying it is too heavy, and unsuited for the purpose). The whole thing is a replay of the LK-1 situation. In 1963, a resolution was issued to send a Soviet man around the moon. Instead, after two years of development, Korolev managed to get Chelomei's LK-1 lunar spacecraft cancelled, and started all over with his own L1. On 13 October 1967 Mishin began his efforts to kill the VI program. From the point ...more... Bibliography and Further Reading
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