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Gennadi Mikhailovich Kolesnikov Russian Engineer Cosmonaut. Born 7 October 1936.

Personal: Male. Born in Dauriya, Chita, Russia. Soviet Air Force Graduated from Higher Air Force School of Engineering with a candidate of technical sciences degree, 1966. Doctorate of military sciences degree, 1989. Soviet Air Force. Soviet Air Force.

Astronaut Career

Astronaut Group: Air Force Group 3 - 1965. Inactive Entered space service: 23 October 1965. Left space service: 16 December 1967. Cosmonaut training November 1965 - December 1967. Left cosmonaut group due to medical reasons.

Worked at Gagarin Center. Later a research scientist and professor at Air Force Academy, Monino. He authored more than 220 scientific papers.

Kolesnikov 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..
2 September 1966 - Cosmonaut military program training groups. Kamanin organises the cosmonauts into the following training groups:

  • Voskhod: Volynov, Shonin, Beregovoi, Shatalov.
  • Spiral: Titov, Kuklin, Filipchenko, Beregovoi, Shatalov.
  • Soyuz VI: Popovich, Gubarev, Artyukhin, Gulyayev, Belousov, Kolesnikov
  • Almaz: Belyayev, Shonin, Matinchenko, Demin, Zaikin, Vorobyev, Lazarev
31 December 1966 - 18 cosmonauts in lunar training. Gagarin, Komarov, Nikolayev, Bykovsky, Khrunov, Gorbatko, Voronov, Kolodin, Popovich, Gubarev, Artyukhin, Gylyayev, Belousov, Kolesnikov, Volynov, Doborvolsky, Zhobolov.
1969 Early - Soyuz VI Flight 1 (cancelled). The planned first flight of the Soyuz VI combat spacecraft was planned for early 1969, beating America's equivalent Manned Orbiting Lab. The project was cancelled in 1968.
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