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Vitali Andreyevich Grishchenko Ukrainian Navigator Cosmonaut. Born 26 April 1942. Died 4 May 1992.

Personal: Male. Born in Naifeld, Sumy, Ukraine. Suicide Soviet Air Force Graduated from Higher Air Force School. Candidate of military sciences degree, 1980. Soviet Air Force Soviet Air Force.

Astronaut Career

Astronaut Group: Air Force Group 3 - 1965. Deceased Entered space service: 23 October 1965. Left space service: 5 February 1968. Cosmonaut training November 1965 - December 1967. Discharged from cosmonaut group in 1968.

Member of the staff, Gagarin-Academy of the Soviet Air Force.

Grishchenko Chronology

23 October 1965 - Cosmonaut selection. Although Kamanin desired 40 new cosmonaut-trainees, in the end only 17 were selected. They were:

  • Pilots: Voloshin, Sharafutdinov, Shcheglov, Kramarenko, Yakovlev, Petrushenko,Skvortsov, Fyodorov,Klimuk, Sarafanov, Zudov, Kizim
  • Engineers: Kolesnikov,Stepanov Eduard, Lisun, Rozhdestvensky, Khludeyev, Glazkov, Preobrazhensky
  • Navigator: Grishchenko
  • Physician: Degtyarov
28 October 1965 - Soviet Air Force Cosmonaut Training Group 3 selected..
25 December 1967 - 1965 Air Force Group cosmonaut trainees are examined.. Of the 18, 13 scored a '5', four scored '4', and one '3'. Belousov, Grishchenko, Skvortsov, Sharafutdinov, and Voloshin - the low scorers - are all to be dismissed from the cosmonaut corps.
4 May 1992 - Cosmonaut Vitali Andreyevich Grishchenko dies at age of 50 -- Natural causes..
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