Anatoly Semenovich Levchenko

Picture autographed by Anatoly Levchenko

Anatoly
Semenovich Levchenko
(Civilian Buran Cosmonaut #2)
| Born
on... |
21 May 1941 |
| Join
Buran Team in: |
1977 |
| Left Buran Team in: |
Died of brain tumor, 6 Aug.
1988 |
| As... |
Civilian Test Pilot |
| Major assignments: |
Cosmonaut-researcher aboard
Soyuz TM-4 |
Captain Soviet Airforce Res.; graduated from Chernigov Higher
Air Force School, 1964; pilot in the Soviet Air Force; later civil test pilot in
for Soviet Air Force Ministry; was selected as cosmonaut on 30.07.1980 (LII-1);
OKP (cosmonaut basic training): 12/78 - 7/80; test pilot for the Soviet
Shuttle-program; was assigned as double for the first Buran test flight; died on
the complications of a brain tumor.
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