Gennadi Sarafanov
Gennady Vasilyevich Sarafanov (Russian Геннадий Васильевич Сарафанов, scientific transliteration Gennady Vasil'evič Sarafanov; * January 1, 1942 in Sinekije, Russian SFSR, † 29 September 2005) was a Soviet cosmonaut.
Sarafanov was born in January 1942 in the Russian village Sinekiye. He went to the Soviet Army and after a year at the age of 18 years for the Air Force. He was a fighter pilot in a guard regiment before he was selected in November 1965 as a member of the third group of the Air Force 's national space program.
After he had completed his first cosmonaut training program in 1967 and was appointed to the Soyuz group in 1972, he was named along with Lew Dyomin for the flight Soyuz 13. The flight was canceled because the mission objective, the space station Salyut 2, fell into the orbit of control. Dyomin and Sarafanov were then ordered for the Soyuz 14 mission as a replacement crew before then with Soyuz 15 for the first time broke up into space.
Sarafanov 1974 was commander of the unsuccessful mission to the space station Salyut 3 and flew with the engineer Lev Stepanovich Dyomin the mission Soyuz 15 It was planned that the two astronauts would then act as a second crew on the first military space station of the Soviet Union. But the control system of their Soyuz spacecraft fell out in the final phase of flight. They had, therefore, on August 28, 1974 - just two days after its launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome - return to earth.
During the early 1980s, he was named for the Flight of a planned manned version of the TKS spacecraft, but its mission has also been deleted as no manned flights of TKS were made. The development of the TKS system was later among other things, the basis for the Russian Zarya module of the International Space Station.
Sarafanov remained until July 1986 Member of the Soviet space program.
He died on Thursday, September 29, 2005 after a complication during surgery. He was 63 years old and leaves behind his wife and two children.