Aleksandr Poleshchuk
Alexander Fyodorovich Poleschtschuk (Russian Александр Фёдорович Полещук, scientific transliteration Aleksandr Fedorovic Poleščuk; born October 30, 1953 in Cheremkhovo, Irkutsk Oblast, Russian SFSR ) is a former Russian cosmonaut.
Training
Alexander Poleschtschuk completed his engineering studies at the Moscow Aviation Institute in 1977 and began working for RKK Energia. There he worked on perfecting the repair and assembly techniques for space flights. He is very experienced, to work under simulated weightlessness.
In February 1989, he was selected as a candidate for a Raumflüg ( Group 14 civilian specialists ). From September 1989 to January 1991 he took part in the complete basic training and qualified as a test cosmonaut then until March 1992 at the advanced training for the Soyuz -TM spacecraft and take part in the Mir station.
Space flights
In 1992, he was the flight engineer of the backup crew for Soyuz TM -15 and was, as usual, was nominated for the subsequent flight Soyuz TM -16. During this mission, he was with Gennadi Manakov 179 days in space. The two spacewalks, which he undertook at this time, together lasted nine hours and 58 minutes. It was also tested an androgynous docking system at the crystal module.
From October 1994 to March 1995 he was preparing as a replacement flight engineer prior to the flight of Soyuz TM -21 and the Mir EO -18 long-term expedition.
Poleschtschuk is married and has one daughter.
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