Yury Artyukhin

• Soyuz 14 (1974 )

Yuri Petrovich Artjuchin (Russian Юрий Петрович Артюхин; born June 22, 1930 ( other source: 22 July) in Perschutino, Moscow Oblast; † 4 August 1998 Zvezdny Gorodok, Moscow Oblast ) was a Soviet cosmonaut.

Life

Air Force

After graduating from middle school Artjuchin occurred in 1948 in a flying school one. Thereafter, he served as an engineer with the air forces of the USSR. Artjuchin been delegated to the military engineering academy, Zhukovsky, which he successfully completed in March 1958. After graduation, he remained at the Academy and worked in a research laboratory. Among other things, he used while the Soviet mainframe Minsk 2

Selection as a cosmonaut

During the year 1962 Artjuchin went through the selection process for cosmonauts and was inducted into the cosmonaut group on 8 January 1963. This was the second group of candidates from the Air Force, and the first in which not only pilots were permitted.

The basic training included Artjuchin from the exam on January 21, 1965. From March 1965 to January 1966, he trained for the planned long-duration flight Voskhod 3 This flight was repeatedly postponed, but never officially canceled.

From the summer of 1965 Artjuchin was as a flight engineer for an early Soyuz mission in conversation. The group classification was, however, subject to constant change. At times he worked in the moon program of the USSR, which was demolished in 1969.

The group flight of Soyuz 6, Soyuz 7 and Soyuz 8 in October 1969 accompanied Artjuchin on the ship Kosmonawt Vladimir Komarov, which was specially equipped to communicate with the spacecraft. This was repeated for the long-duration flight of Soyuz 9 in June 1970.

As of January 1970, he coached for coupling flights of Soyuz spacecraft in orbit. He was assigned to Commander Pyotr Klimuk. This training was interrupted by an insert on the communications ship Akademik Sergei Korolev for the flights of Soyuz 10 in April 1971 and Soyuz 11 in June 1971 to the DOS space station Salyut 1 Even during the flight of Soyuz 11 were Klimuk and Artjuchin for use on the second DOS space station nominated. These plans were put on hold after the crew of Soyuz 11 had arrived at the landing killed.

Almaz

From November 1971 Artjuchin trained for use on board the military Almaz space station. Its first commander was Anatoly Fedorov, Pavel Popovich later. The station was started under the designation Salyut 2 on 3 April 1973 but the ground station lost after a short time in control, so they could not be manned.

Flight to the Salyut 3

The next Almaz station was launched on June 24, 1974 under the name Salyut 3, this time successfully. On July 3, 1974 Popovich and Artjuchin launched in Soyuz 14 and coupled on the following day at the space station. In the following two weeks, the cosmonauts performed Earth observations to determine their military value. Also various medical experiments were performed. The landing took place on July 19. This was the first successful space station mission of the Soviet Union. At this time, NASA had just successfully completed the third and final flight to the space station Skylab.

Salyut 5

As of December 1974 Artjuchin worked as an instructor for cosmonauts in Almaz program. During this time, started three missions Almaz station Salyut 5: Soyuz 21, Soyuz 23, and Soyuz 24 With the landing of Soyuz 24 in February 1977, this program came to a temporary end.

TKS

From 1977 Artjuchin was trained as a crew for the TKS spacecraft. It was much larger than the Soyuz spacecraft and should be used for personnel and material transport to space stations. Artjuchin was assumed together with Valery Romanov the command of Vladimir Koselski. A flight to another Almaz station could have taken place in 1981, but the Almaz program was canceled. Instead flights to the DOS space stations Salyut 6 and Salyut 7 were planned. Artjuchin was this in the team by Anatoly Beresowoi, along with Flight Engineer Dmitry Jujukow. In December 1981, these plans were canceled. The TKS group was disbanded.

After the Cosmonaut career

Artjuchin occurred on January 26, 1982 from the cosmonaut corps and worked until December 1987 as an executive in the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Centre. In March 1988, Artjuchin retired with the rank of colonel from the Air Force. He joined the development office NPO Molniya and was responsible for the simulation software in the Buran program. In May 1992, he sat down to rest. He died in August 1998 after a long illness and was buried with military honors.

Private

Artjuchin was married and had two children.

Others

• Artjuchin was appointed on July 20, 1974 Hero of the Soviet Union and was also awarded the Order of Lenin
• From 1975 to 1992 he was president of the Russian Ski Association
• He was the author of a book on stabilized rotation of spacecraft