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Anatoli Semyonovich Levchenko Ukrainian Pilot Cosmonaut. Born 21 May 1941. Died 6 August 1988.

Personal: Male, Married, One child. Born in Krasnokutsk, Ukraine. Natural causes - Brain tumor - at Nikolai Burdenko Neurosurgical Institute in Moscow. Soviet Air Force Graduated from Chernigov Higher Air Force School, 1964 Pilot in the Soviet Air Force Soviet Air Force

Astronaut Career

Astronaut Group: Buran Group - 1978, MAP Group 1 - 1981. Deceased Entered space service: 30 July 1980. Left space service: 6 August 1988. Number of Flights: 1.00. Total Time: 7.92 days. Cosmonaut training December 1978 - July 1980. Buran Test Pilot,

Civil test pilot in for Soviet Air Force Ministry.

Levchenko Spaceflight Log

  • 21 December 1987 Flight: Mir LII-1. Flight Up: Soyuz TM-4. Flight Back: Soyuz TM-3. Flight Time: 7.92 days.
Levchenko Chronology

1986 Early - Soyuz T-15A (cancelled). Final expedition to Salyut 7 station was cancelled when control was lost.

26 April 1986 - Buran Analog BST-02 taxi test 6. Time 14 minutes.
20 June 1986 - Buran Analog BST-02 flight 5. Time 25 minutes.
28 June 1986 - Buran Analog BST-02 flight 6. Time 23 minutes.
29 December 1986 - Buran Analog BST-02 flight 9. Time 17 minutes.
29 March 1987 - Buran Analog BST-02 taxi test 7. Time 2 minutes.
30 March 1987 - Buran Analog BST-02 taxi test 8. Time 25 minutes.
21 May 1987 - Buran Analog BST-02 flight 12. Time 20 minutes.
21 December 1987 - Soyuz TM-4. Mir Expedition EO-03. Carried Musa Manarov, Anatoly Levchenko, Vladimir Titov to Mir; returned crew of Soyuz TM-5 to Earth. Orbits 168 x 243 km, 255 x 296 km, 333 x 359 km. Docked with Mir 12:51 GMT 23 December. 30 December moved to forward port.
29 December 1987 - Landing of Soyuz TM-3. Soyuz TM-3 undocked from Mir at 05:55 GMT and landed near Arkalyk at 09:16 GMT with the crew of Aleksandrov, Levchenko (Soyuz TM-4) and Romanenko (Soyuz TM-2) aboard.
6 August 1988 - Cosmonaut Anatoli Semyonovich Levchenko dies at age of 47 -- Natural causes - Brain tumor - at Nikolai Burdenko Neurosurgical Institute in Moscow..
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