Biography of Ivanchenkova

Ivanchenkov Alexander Sergeevich - Bortinzhener of the Soyuz spacecraft; The sorcerer of the Soyuz T-6 spacecraft. Born on September 28 in the city of Ivanteevka, Pushkinsky district of the Moscow region, is now the city of regional subordination of the Moscow region. In the year he graduated from 10 classes of the school in his hometown. In the year he graduated from the Moscow Aviation Institute.

He was engaged in the design and construction of units for the N-1 launch vehicle and the lunar ship. In the group of testers, he was engaged in the development of on -board documentation and testing of systems of manned spacecraft.

In the Cosmonauts detachment from March to November. He made 2 space flights with a total length of 2 hours 38 minutes, completed 1 exit into outer space lasting 2 hours 20 minutes. In May-November, directed training was undergoing a duplicate crew as a sorcerer for the first test flight according to the Soviet-American program of Epas. In January - June, he was prepared as a sorcerer of the reserve crew under the Epas program.

Since September, he has been preparing according to the first expedition program to the Salyut-6 orbital station as a bortinger of a duplicate crew. After that, he continued preparations for the flight to Salyut-6 as a bartinzhener of a duplicate crew. Grechko, and on January 10,-the double-sided by the Soyuz spacecraft, O. since January, has been preparing for the flight as a barrandizer of the main expedition to the Salyut-6 orbital station.

Kovalenk made a space flight lasting day 14 hours 47 minutes. This was the second main expedition to the Salyut-6 orbital station. During his stay at the Cosmonauts station, two visits expeditions accepted-on the Ships of Soyuz with the Soviet-Polish crew and Soyuz with the Soviet-German crew. Kovalenok along with A. Ivanchenkov for 2 hours 20 minutes worked in outer space.

They installed equipment on the outer surface of the station for registering space rays. Also, a device for registration of micrometeors, cassettes with polymer and optical materials and a cassette block with biopolymers, designed to study the micrometeric environment and study the influence of the space environment on the properties of various materials were also dismantled.

Kovalenok and A. Ivanchenkov returned to the ground on the Soyuz spacecraft. It was the longest cosmic flight at that time. For the successful implementation of a long space flight on the orbital research complex “Salyut-6”-“Soyuz” and at the same time the courage and heroism by the Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR dated November 2, Ivanchenkov, Alexander Sergeyevich, was awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union and the presentation of the Order of Lenin and the Golden Star Horestale.

Since September, he has been preparing to fly to the Salyut-7 orbital station as a flight engineer of the Soviet-French crew. Dzhanibekov and J. Chretin France made a second space flight lasting 7 days 21 hours 51 minutes. This was the first expedition to visit the Salyut-7 orbital station, at which the first main expedition worked at that time-A. Berezova and V. Lebedev, and the first flight of the astronaut from the capitalist country on the Soviet spaceship.

For the successful implementation of the space flight on the orbital research complex “Salyut-7”-“Soyuz” and the at the same time courage and heroism by decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of July 2, Alexander Sergeyevich, awarded the Order of Lenin and the second medal “Golden Star”. In the years, he worked as deputy head of the flight test service of the NGO "Energia".

In the years, he was trained in a group under the program of the reusable spacecraft "Buran". It was planned to be the first crew as a barrarifier, but the program was touched. The Cosmonaut Pilot lives in Moscow. The hero of the German Democratic Republic was awarded by 2 orders of Lenin awarded the Golden Medal named after K. Honorary Citizen of the cities of Kaluga Bronze Bust A.

Ivanchenkova was installed in the city of Ivanteevka of the Moscow Region. Works: The atmosphere of the Earth with Salute-6. Lazarev, V. Kovalenk and S. Avakian; Million league over the planet.