Laveykin, Aleksandr Ivanovich

1951 April 21

• Birth of Aleksandr Ivanovich Laveykin - . Nation: Russia. Related Persons: Laveykin. Russian engineer cosmonaut 1978-1994. 1 spaceflight, 174.1 days in space. Flew to orbit on Soyuz TM-2 (1987)..

1978 December 1

• Energia Engineer Cosmonaut Training Group 5 selected. - . Nation: Russia. Related Persons: Aleksandrov, Balandin, Laveykin, Manarov, Savinykh, Serebrov, Solovyov, Vladimir.

1982 First half

• Soyuz Almaz 4 (cancelled) - . Crew: Laveykin, Malyshev. Nation: Russia. Related Persons: Laveykin, Malyshev. Program: Almaz. Flight: Soyuz Almaz 4. Spacecraft Bus: Soyuz. Spacecraft: Soyuz 7K-T. Planned Soyuz flight to a dock with the Almaz OPS 4 space station. The mission was cancelled together with the Almaz program in 1981..

1987 February 5

21:38 GMT - . Launch Site: Baikonur. Launch Complex: Baikonur LC1. LV Family: R-7. Launch Vehicle: Soyuz-U2.

• Soyuz TM-2 - . Call Sign: Taimyr (Taimyr - Russian peninsula). Crew: Laveykin, Romanenko. Backup Crew: Serebrov, Titov, Vladimir. Payload: Soyuz TM s/n 52. Mass: 7,100 kg (15,600 lb). Nation: Russia. Agency: MOM. Program: Mir. Class: Manned. Type: Manned spacecraft. Flight: Soyuz TM-2, Soyuz TM-2 Mir LD-1. Spacecraft Bus: Soyuz. Spacecraft: Soyuz TM. Duration: 174.14 days. Decay Date: 1987-07-30 . USAF Sat Cat: 17482 . COSPAR: 1987-013A. Apogee: 365 km (226 mi). Perigee: 341 km (211 mi). Inclination: 51.60 deg. Period: 91.60 min. 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..

1987 April 11

19:41 GMT - .

• EVA Mir EO-2-1 - . Crew: Laveykin, Romanenko. EVA Duration: 0.15 days. Nation: Russia. Related Persons: Laveykin, Romanenko. Program: Mir. Class: Manned. Type: Manned space station. Flight: Soyuz TM-2, Soyuz TM-2 Mir LD-1. Spacecraft: Mir. Removed bag from docking unit that interfered with Kvant docking..

1987 June 12

16:55 GMT - .

• EVA Mir EO-2-2 - . Crew: Laveykin, Romanenko. EVA Duration: 0.0792 days. Nation: Russia. Related Persons: Laveykin, Romanenko. Program: Mir. Class: Manned. Type: Manned space station. Flight: Soyuz TM-2, Soyuz TM-2 Mir LD-1. Spacecraft: Mir. Began solar array installation..

1987 June 16

15:30 GMT - .

• EVA Mir EO-2-3 - . Crew: Laveykin, Romanenko. EVA Duration: 0.14 days. Nation: Russia. Related Persons: Laveykin, Romanenko. Program: Mir. Class: Manned. Type: Manned space station. Flight: Soyuz TM-2, Soyuz TM-2 Mir LD-1. Spacecraft: Mir. Continued solar array installation..

1987 July 30

• Landing of Soyuz TM-2 - . Return Crew: Faris, Laveykin, Viktorenko. Nation: Russia. Related Persons: Faris, Laveykin, Viktorenko. Program: Mir. Flight: Soyuz TM-2, Soyuz TM-2 Mir LD-1, Soyuz TM-3, Soyuz TM-3 Mir EP-1. Undocked from Mir at 8:34 GMT on 29 July. The Orbital Module was jettisoned before retrofire and left in a 308 X 356 orbit. Soyuz TM-2 landed at 01:05 GMT with the crew of Faris, Laveykin and Viktorenko aboard..

1991 End

• Soyuz TM-14B (cancelled) - . Crew: Aleksandrov, Aubakirov, Korzun. Backup Crew: Laveykin, Musabayev, Tsibliyev. Nation: Russia. Program: Mir. Flight: Soyuz TM-14B. Spacecraft Bus: Soyuz. Spacecraft: Soyuz TM.

  Soyuz TM-13 and TM-14 crews were reshuffled extensively due to commercial seat bookings by Austria and Germany and the necessity of flying a Kazakh-born cosmonaut as part of the Baikonur rental agreement. This was the second crew assignment. The Kazakh researchers were moved to the earlier Soyuz TM-13 flight and paying German researchers took their place in the final crew.