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Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Serebrov Russian Engineer Cosmonaut. Born 15 February 1944. Ten spacewalks. 372 cumulative days in space.

Personal: Male, Married, one child. Born in Moscow, Russia. Korolev Design Bureau Civilian Engineer, Energia NPO.

Astronaut Career

Astronaut Group: Energia Engineer Group 5 - 1978. Inactive Entered space service: 1 December 1978. Left space service: 10 May 1995. Number of Flights: 4.00. Total Time: 372.95 days. Number of EVAs: 10. Total EVA Time: 1.43 days.

Serebrov Spaceflight Log

  • 19 August 1982 Flight: Salyut 7 EP-2. Flight Up: Soyuz T-7. Flight Back: Soyuz T-5. Flight Time: 7.91 days.
  • 20 April 1983 Flight: Soyuz T-8. Flight Up: Soyuz T-8. Flight Back: Soyuz T-8. Flight Time: 2.01 days.
  • 5 September 1989 Flight: Mir EO-5. Flight Up: Soyuz TM-8. Flight Back: Soyuz TM-8. Flight Time: 166.29 days.
  • 1 July 1993 Flight: Mir EO-14. Flight Up: Soyuz TM-17. Flight Back: Soyuz TM-17. Flight Time: 196.74 days.
Serebrov Chronology

1 December 1978 - Energia Engineer Cosmonaut Training Group 5 selected..

19 August 1982 - Soyuz T-7. Docked with Salyut 7. Carried Svetlana Savitskaya, Leonid Popov, Alexander Serebrov to Salyut 7 to conduct scientific and technical research and experiments.
27 August 1982 - Landing of Soyuz T-5. Soyuz T-5 landed at 15:04 GMT with the crew of Popov, Savitskaya and Serebrov aboard.
20 April 1983 - Soyuz T-8. Manned three crew. Unsuccessful mission. Failed to rendezvous with Salyut 7. Recovered April 22, 1983 13:29 GMT. Landed 113 km SE Arkalyk.
22 April 1983 - Landing of Soyuz T-8. Soyuz T-8 landed at 13:29 GMT, 113 km SE of Arkalyk.
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.
5 February 1987 - Soyuz TM-2. Mir Expedition EO-02. Docked with Mir 7 February 1987. Carried Yuri Romanenko, Aleksander Laveykin to Mir; returned Laveykin, crew of Soyuz TM-3 to Earth.
7 June 1988 - Soyuz TM-5. Transported to the Mir orbital station a Soviet/Bulgarian crew comprising cosmonauts A Y Solovyev, V P Savinykh and A P Aleksandrov (Bulgaria) to conduct joint research and experiments with cosmonauts V G Titov and M K Manarov. Interim orbit 343 x 282 km. Maneuvered to Mir's 355 x 349 km orbit. Docked 15:57 GMT 9 June to Mir's aft port. Moved to forward port 18 June.
26 November 1988 - Soyuz TM-7. Mir Expedition EO-04. Carried Alexander Volkov, Sergei Krikalev, Jean-Loup Chretien to Mir; returned Volkov, Krikalev to Earth. Initial Orbit: 194 X 235 km. Thereafter maneuvered to rendezvous orbit 256 X 291 km before docking with Mir in 337 X 369 km at 17:16 GMT 28 November.
5 September 1989 - Soyuz TM-8. Manned two crew. Mir Expedition EO-05. Docked with Mir 8 September. Transported to the Mir orbital station a team consisting of A S Viktorenko, commander of the spacecraft, and A A Serebrov, on-board engineer, to carry out scientific and technological research and experiments. Flight cost 80 million rubles. Expected return 25 million rubles net profit.
8 January 1990 - EVA Mir EO-5-1. Installed star tracker.
11 January 1990 - EVA Mir EO-5-2. Retrieved and installed material samples
26 January 1990 - EVA Mir EO-5-3. Tested spacesuit. Examined exterior of Kvant 2.
1 February 1990 - EVA Mir EO-5-4. Serebrov tested SPK manoeuvring unit.
5 February 1990 - EVA Mir EO-5-5. Viktorenko tested SPK manoeuvring unit.
19 February 1990 - Landing of Soyuz TM-8. Soyuz TM-8 landed at 04:36 GMT.
24 January 1993 - Soyuz TM-16. Manned two crew. Mir Expedition EO-13. Transported to the Mir manned orbital station a crew of the thirteenth main expedition comprising the cosmonauts G M Manakov and A F Poleschuk.The Soyuz carried the APAS androgynous docking system instead of the usual probe system.
1 July 1993 - Soyuz TM-17. Mir Expedition EO-14. Carried Vasili Tsibliyev, Alexander Serebrov, Jean-Pierre Haignere to Mir; returned Serebrov, Tsibliyev to Earth. Progress M-18 undocked from Mir's front port at around 17:25 GMT on July 3, and Soyuz TM-17 docked at the same port only 20 minutes later at 17:45 GMT.
16 September 1993 - EVA Mir EO-14-1. Began installation of Rapana truss.
20 September 1993 - EVA Mir EO-14-2. Completed installation of Rapana truss.
28 September 1993 - EVA Mir EO-14-3. Installed material samples and retrieved experiment packages. Documented external condition of Mir.
22 October 1993 - EVA Mir EO-14-4. Retrieved micrometeoroid detectors.
29 October 1993 - EVA Mir EO-14-5. Installed equipment on exterior of Mir
14 January 1994 - Landing of Soyuz TM-17. Soyuz TM-17 landed at 08:24 GMT with the EO-14 crew of Serebrov and Tsibliyev aboard.
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