Background
Titov Vladimir Geogrievich was born on hte 1 of January in 1947 in Sretensk, the Chita Region, the RSFSR (now Sretenskaya, Novosibirsk, Russian Federation).
Titov Vladimir Geogrievich was born on hte 1 of January in 1947 in Sretensk, the Chita Region, the RSFSR (now Sretenskaya, Novosibirsk, Russian Federation).
In 1965 Vladimir graduated from 11 classes of secondary school No. 2 in Borzna, Chernihiv region and finished his education in the VVA named after YA Gagarin.
He started his career on the 4 of September in 1965 as a stoker of Borznyansky district of the Kozhinsky office of the intelligence service of the Chernigov Trust.
He is military pilot-instuktor of first class (1975), instructor of the Air Force's PAP (1979), a military pilot of the 1st class (1980), cosmonaut of the 1st class (1989).
He made four flights:
April 20-22, 1983 as commander of the Soyuz T-8 spacecraft together with G. Strekalov and A. Serebrov. The flight was to be carried out according to the program of the 2nd main expedition to the OS "Salyut-7". The docking with the station could not be performed due to the non-opening of the antenna rod of the approach and docking system "Igla" on the spacecraft. Flight duration was 2 days. 00 hours. 17 min. 48 seconds. Callsign was "Ocean-1".
December 21, 1987 - December 21, 1988 as commander of the Soyuz TM-4 spacecraft together with M. Manarov and A. Levchenko. At the first stage of the flight he worked for OK Mir together with the crew of the 2nd main expedition - Yu. Romanenko and A. Alexandrov. After landing on December 29, 1987, Yu. Romanenko, A. Aleksandrov and A. Levchenko, Titov continued his flight on the program of the third main expedition to the Mir orbital station together with M. Manarov. He completed three spacewalks with a total duration of 13 hours. 47 min. Flight duration was 365 days. 22 hours. 38 mins. 58 seconds. Callsign was "Ocean-1".
3-11 February 1995 as a specialist in the space shuttle Discovery program STS-63 with J. Wetherby, A. Collins, B. Harris. M. Fole and J. Voss. For the first time, the Space Shuttle became close to OK Mir to a distance of 10 meters. Flight Duration was 8 days. 06 hour 28 min. 15 seconds.
September 26 - October 7, 1997 as a specialist in the flight to the MTKK Atlantis STS-86 and OK Mir (the seventh docking of the shuttle). He worked with astronauts - M. Bloomfield, S. Parazinski, J.-L. (September 26-October 3, 1997), M. Foul (September 27 - October 7, 1997), and also by the crew of EO-24 - A. Soloviev and P. Vinogradov (27 September-October 3, 1997). David Wolf was brought to the Mir station, and Michael Foul was brought back to Earth after a 144-day flight. During the joint flight, Atlantis and Mir made a spacewalk with S. Parazinski for 5 hours. 01 min. Flight duration was 10 days. 19 hours 20 minutes. 50 seconds.
