Background
Viktorenko Alexander Stepanovich was born March 29, 1947, p. Olginka, Sergievsky district, North Kazakhstan region, Kazakh SSR (Kazakhstan).
Viktorenko Alexander Stepanovich was born March 29, 1947, p. Olginka, Sergievsky district, North Kazakhstan region, Kazakh SSR (Kazakhstan).
1954-1965 - graduated 11 classes of Suharabiv secondary school of North-Kazakhstan region;
1969 - graduated with honors Orenburg VVAUL them. I.S. Polbina and received the specialty of the pilot-engineer.
August 11, 1965 - April 25, 1969 - cadet of the Orenburg VVAUL.
Since June 9, 1969 - senior pilot of the 759 separate mine-torpedo aviation regiment of the DKBF.
From October 12, 1971 - Assistant Commander of the ship - right pilot of the 240 Guards Marine Missile Regiment of the DKBF.
Since August 13, 1973 - the commander of the ship of 15 separate distant reconnaissance aviation regiment of the DKBF.
May 23, 1978 - by order of the Commander-in-Chief of the Air Force enlisted in the detachment of cosmonauts 1 Research Institute of the CTC for the position of the listener-cosmonaut (7th set).
Since February 24, 1982 - a test cosmonaut of a group of international space programs.
1983 - February 1984 - commander of the reserve crew on the visiting expedition program together with V. Sevastyanov and R. Stankevičius, and since November 1983 - only with V. Sevastyanov.
September 1, 1984 - August 1985 - the commander of the backup crew of the Soyuz T-14 spacecraft on the program of the main expedition to the Salyut-7 OS first with A. Aleksandrov and E. Salem, and from March 1985 - with G. Strekalov and E. Salei.
November 1985 - March 1986 - commander of the backup crew of the Soyuz T-15 spacecraft under the EO-1 program on the Mir space station together with A. Aleksandrov.
January-November 11, 1988 - the commander of the backup crew of EO-4 to the Mir "OK" on the Soviet-French program, together with A. Serebrov and M. Tonini (France).
December 5, 1990 - May 1991 - backup crew commander for the EO-9 program together with S. Avdeev.
May 19 - June 1991 - commander of the backup crew EO-10 together with S. Avdeev and K. Lothaller (Austria). In connection with the decision to combine the Austrian and Kazakh flights, the crew was re-formed.
July 17 - September 13, 1991 - commander of the backup crew under the EO-10 program together with T. Musabaev and K. Lothaller;
October 2, 1991 - backup of commander of the Soyuz TM-13 spacecraft A. Volkov.
August - December 1993 - in the reserve crew of EO-14 together with E. Kondakova.
February - June 1994 - the commander of the backup crew for the flight to the Mir space station under the EO-16 program together with E. Kondakova.
