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Personal: Male, Married, Two children. Born in Tavda, Russia. Soviet Air Force Graduated from Kachinsk Higher Air Force School, 1971, Lieutenant Colonel, Soviet Air Forces Reserve Soviet Air Force. Soviet Air Force. Astronaut Career Astronaut Group: Air Force Group 6 - 1976. Inactive Entered space service: 23 August 1976. Left space service: 1 October 1987. Cosmonaut training 23 August 1976 - 30 January 1979. Withdrawn from cosmonaut team for medical reasons, July 1987. Deputy Commander, Flight Training, Chkalov Central Air Club, Moscow. Retired from active duty in 1996.
Saley Chronology 23 August 1976 - Soviet Air Force Cosmonaut Training Group 6 selected.. 1985 March - Soyuz T-13A (cancelled). A mission was planned from 1982 to operate the military experiments aboard TKS-3 after it had docked with Salyut 7. Salyut 7 problems resulted in a complete breakdown of the TKS-3 plans and the crew was split-up and launched on two seperate flights. 17 September 1985 - Soyuz T-14. Docked with Salyut 7. Transported a crew comprising ship's commander V V Vasyutin, flight engineer G M Grechko and cosmonaut-researcher A A Volkov to the Salyut-7 orbital station to conduct scientific and technical studies and experiments. Grechko returned in Soyuz T-13 on 25 September 1985 - emergency return. 1986 June - Soyuz T-15B (cancelled). Planned second crew to opeate TKS-3 military experiments aboard Salyut 7 before control of the station was lost. Salyut 7 and Cosmos 1686 burned up in the atmosphere together in a fiery show over Argentina on February 7, 1991. Bibliography:
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