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Aleksandr Yakovlevich Petrushenko Ukrainian Pilot Cosmonaut. Born 1 January 1942. Died 11 November 1992.

Personal: Male. Born in Martovy, Kharkov, Ukraine. Lung cancer. Soviet Air Force Graduated from Higher Air Force School, Chernigov, 1964 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: 15 June 1973. Cosmonaut training November 1965 - December 1967.

Worked at Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center, later moving to the satellite control center in Monino until his retirement 1991.

Petrushenko 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.
11 November 1992 - Cosmonaut Aleksandr Yakovlevich Petrushenko dies at age of 50 -- Natural causes..
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