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Leonid Denissovich Kizim Ukrainian Pilot Cosmonaut. Born 5 August 1941. Member of first crew to fly between two space stations during a single mission. 374 cumulative days in space.

Personal: Male, Married, Two children. Born in Krasnyi Liman, Donetsk, Ukraine. Soviet Air Force Graduated from Higher Air Force School, 1975 Soviet Air Force. Test pilot and parachutist.

Astronaut Career

Astronaut Group: Air Force Group 3 - 1965. Inactive Entered space service: 23 October 1965. Left space service: 13 June 1987. Number of Flights: 3.00. Total Time: 374.75 days. Number of EVAs: 8.00. Total EVA Time: 1.32 days. Cosmonaut training November 1965 - December 1967. Call sign: Mayak (Beacon).

Later Deputy Director Satellite Control-Center of Russian Ministry of Defense. From May 1995 Director Military Engineering Academy of Aeronautics and Astronautics in St. Petersburg.. From 2001 retired from Air Force as General Colonel.

Kizim Spaceflight Log

  • 27 November 1980 Flight: Salyut 6 EO-5. Flight Up: Soyuz T-3. Flight Back: Soyuz T-3. Flight Time: 12.80 days.
  • 8 February 1984 Flight: Salyut 7 EO-3. Flight Up: Soyuz T-10. Flight Back: Soyuz T-11. Flight Time: 236.95 days.
  • 13 March 1986 Flight: Mir EO-1. Flight Up: Soyuz T-15. Flight Back: Soyuz T-15. Flight Time: 125.00 days.
Kizim 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..
1967 December - New Spiral cosmonaut team. A new cosmonaut training group for the Spiral spaceplane was established: Titov, Kizim, Kozelskiy, Lyakhov, Malyshev, Petrushenko.
5 June 1980 - Soyuz T-2. Test flight of new Soyuz T; docked with Salyut 6. Conducted testing and development of on-board systems in the improved Soyuz T series transport vehicle under piloted conditions.
27 November 1980 - Soyuz T-3. Manned three crew. Docked with Salyut 6. Tested the improved transport ship of the 'SOYUZ T' series; transported to the Salyut-6 orbital station a crew consisting of L D Kizim, O G Makarov and G M Strekalov to carry out repair and preventive work and scientific and technical investigation and experiments.
10 December 1980 - Landing of Soyuz T-3. Soyuz T-3 landed at 09:25 GMT.
24 June 1982 - Soyuz T-6. Manned three crew. Docked with Salyut 7. Transported to the Salyut-7 orbital station the Soviet-French international crew, comprising V A Dzhanibekov (USSR), A S Ivanchenkov (USSR) and Jean-Loup Chretien (France) to conduct scientific research and experiments.
26 September 1983 - Soyuz T-10-1. Aborted September 27, 1983 19:38 GMT. Unsuccessful mission. Launch vehicle blew up on pad at Tyuratam; crew saved by abort system.
8 February 1984 - Soyuz T-10. Manned three crew. Docked with Salyut 7. Transported a crew consisting of ship's commander L D Kizim, flight engineer V A Solovyov and cosmonaut-research O Y Atkov to the SALYUT-7 orbital station to conduct scientific and technical studies and experiments.
23 April 1984 - EVA Salyut 7 EO-3-1. Installed external equipment.
26 April 1984 - EVA Salyut 7 EO-3-2. Began repair of Salyut 7 propulsion system fuel lines.
29 April 1984 - EVA Salyut 7 EO-3-3. Continued repair of Salyut 7 propulsion system fuel lines.
4 May 1984 - EVA Salyut 7 EO-3-4. Completed repair of Salyut 7 propulsion system fuel lines.
18 May 1984 - EVA Salyut 7 EO-3-5. Installed solar array.
8 August 1984 - EVA Salyut 7 EO-3-6. Repaired Salyut 7 propulsion system fuel lines.
2 October 1984 - Landing of Soyuz T-11. Soyuz T-11 landed at 10:57 GMT with the crew of Atkov, Kizim and Solovyov Vladimir aboard.
13 March 1986 - Soyuz T-15. Mir Main Expedition EO-01. Epic repair mission. The crew, consisting of ship's commander L D Kizim and flight engineer V A Solovyov first docked with the Mir orbital station to conduct scientific and technical studies and experiments. Mir then maneuvered 17 April to match Salyut 7's orbit at 4000 km separation, then again on 4 May to catch up. After six weeks aboard Mir, Soyuz T-15 undocked on 5 May, then rendezvoused and manually docked with the inoperative Salyut 7 station. This was the only flight in history by a single spacecraft between two space stations. The Salyut-7 station was found to be ice bound and without electrical power. The crew repaired the station, regaining power, heat, and environmental control. The also removed experimental results left behind by last crew. Soyuz T-15 undocked Salyut 7 on 25 June, and redocked with Mir on 26 June, delivering 400 kg of scientific material from Salyut 7, including a multichannel spectrometer. Following further work aboard Mir, the crew landed on July 16, 1986 at 12:34 GMT. No crew ever revisited Salyut 7; it made an uncontrolled reentry over Argentina.
28 May 1986 - EVA Mir EO-1-1. Installed truss.
31 May 1986 - EVA Mir EO-1-2. Tested truss structure.
16 July 1986 - Landing of Soyuz T-15. Soyuz T-15 landed at 12:34 GMT, 55 km NE of Arkalyk.
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