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Personal: Male. Born in Saidobad, Uzbekistan. Chelomei Design Bureau Studied from 1957 to 1963 at Leningrad Institute of Aircraft Design (LIAP). Civilian Engineer, Chelomei OKB. Astronaut Career Astronaut Group: Almaz Engineer Group 1 - 1972. Inactive Entered space service: 22 March 1972. Left space service: 8 April 1987. Returned to NPO Mashinostroenniye.
Makrushin Chronology 22 March 1972 - Almaz Engineer Cosmonaut Training Group 1 selected.. The group was selected to provide flight engineers for planned Almaz military space station missions. 1981 Beginning of - TKS-1 (cancelled). Planned first test manned flight of the TKS large ferry craft. Would have docked with the Almaz OPS 4 military space station. Flight cancelled with the rest of the Almaz program in 1981. The spacecraft was instead flown unmanned to Salyut 6 as Cosmos 1267. Late 1982 - Salyut 7/TKS-2 (cancelled). Following the cancellation of the Almaz military station it was still planned that two of the TKS ferries would be flown manned to Salyut stations. In September/October 1979 three crews were formed. In December 1981 Ustinov killed Chelomei's plans for manned TKS flights. The TKS training group was dissolved and TKS-2 flew unmanned to Salyut 7 as Cosmos 1443. Bibliography:
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