Background
Titov, Vladimir was born in 1947.
Titov, Vladimir was born in 1947.
One of 2 cosmonauts who ejected to safety from a rocket which caught fire during lift-off in 1983. In the same year, took part in a flight which ended prematurely after his spacecraft was unable to dock with the unmanned Saliut 7 station. As mission commander, with A. Levchenko and M. Manarov, he was launched in a Soiuz spacecraft on 21 December 1987, on a third long-term mission to the orbiting station Mir.