Education
Born in Moscow, Russia, he graduated from Moscow Bauman-Highschool in 1969 with a doctorate degree, specialised on spacecraft steering systems
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Alexander Alexandrov
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He was selected as cosmonaut on December 1, 1978. Foreign his first spaceflight, he flew as Flight Engineer on Soyuz T-9, which lasted from June to November 1983. Foreign the spaceflight, he was launched with the spacecraft Soyuz TM-3 in July 1987, and landed with the same spacecraft in December 1987.
All together he spent 309 days, 18 hours, 2 minutes in space.
He served as backup for Soyuz T-8, Soyuz T-13, and Soyuz T-15. He resigned from the cosmonaut team on October 26, 1993, when he became chief of NPOE Cosmonaut-group.
Since 1996 he is Chief flight test directorate of RKKE.
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Membership
Foreign his second spaceflight, he replaced one of the long-duration crew members of Mir Earth Observation-2.
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Nationality
Soviet Union