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Personal: Male, Married, Two children. Born in Kharkov, Kharkov, Ukraine. Cancer. Soviet Air Force Graduated from Chuguyev Higher Military Pilot School named after Sergei Grizewez, Kharkov, 1973 and from Gagarin Military Academy, Monino, 1987. Candidate of military sciences degree, 1990. Graduated from General Staff Academy 1995. Soviet Air Force. Soviet Air Force. Astronaut Career Astronaut Group: Air Force Group 6 - 1976. Deceased Entered space service: 1 December 1978. Left space service: 25 February 1986. Number of Flights: 1.00. Total Time: 64.91 days. Cosmonaut training 23 August 1976 - 30 January 1979. Left cosmonaut team for medical reasons. Call sign: Cheget (Tcheget - mountain in the Caucasus) Deputy Faculty Chief, VVA - Gagarin Aviation Academy, Monino. Employed outside space program, March 1988.
Vasyutin Spaceflight Log
Vasyutin Chronology 23 August 1976 - Soviet Air Force Cosmonaut Training Group 6 selected.. 1981 Late - TKS-3 (cancelled). Assignment: Proposed Backup Crew. Flight: TKS-3. Third TKS flight that would have docked with the cancelled Almaz OPS 4 military space station. The spacecraft was instead flown unmanned to Salyut 7 as Cosmos 1686. 8 February 1984 - Soyuz T-10. Assignment: Backup Crew. Flight: Salyut 7 EO-3. Manned three crew. Docked with Salyut 7. Transported a crew consisting of ship's commander L D Kizim, flight engineer V A Solovyov and cosmonaut-research O Y Atkov to the SALYUT-7 orbital station to conduct scientific and technical studies and experiments. 17 July 1984 - Soyuz T-12. Assignment: Backup Crew. Flight: Salyut 7 EP-4, Salyut 7 EO-3. Docked with Salyut 7. Transported a crew comprising ship's commander V A Dzhanibekov, flight engineer S E Savitskaya and cosmonaut-research I P Volk to the Salyut-7 orbital station to conduct scientific and technical studies and experiments. 1985 March - Soyuz T-13A (cancelled). Assignment: Proposed Prime Crew. Flight: Soyuz T-13A. 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. Assignment: Prime Crew. Flight: Salyut 7 EO-4-2, Salyut 7 EP-5, Salyut 7 EO-4-1a, Salyut 7 EO-4-1b. 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. 21 November 1985 - Landing of Soyuz T-14. Assignment: Return Crew. Flight: Salyut 7 EO-4-2, Salyut 7 EO-4-1a. Soyuz T-14 landed at 10:31 GMT with the crew of Savinykh, Vasyutin and Volkov Aleksandr aboard. Bibliography and Further Reading
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