Zaitsev Credit - www.spacefacts.de

Personal: Male. Born in Tula, Russia. Korolev Design Bureau Graduated from Bauman Moscow Higher Technical School with an engineering degree, 1974 Civilian Engineer, Energia NPO.

Astronaut Career

Astronaut Group: Energia Engineer Group 8 - 1985. Inactive Entered space service: 2 September 1985. Left space service: 14 March 1996. Cosmonaut training November 1985 - October 1986. First backup for Serebrov on Soyuz TM-5. Later backup assignment for Soyuz TM-13.

Returned to work with RKK Energia.

18 May 1964 - OKB-1 Voskhod candidates. Of 14 engineering cosmonaut candidates finally submitted by Korolev, only 6 survived preliminary screening and were sent for medical screening (Volkov, Grechko, Zaitsev, Kubasov, Makarov, Siborov, Feoktistov, and Yazdovskiy).