Viktor Vasilyevich Zabolotsky

Signed photograph by Viktor Zabolotsky, with the Buran atop
Antonov-224.

Viktor
Vasilyevich Zabolotsky
(Civilian Buran Cosmonaut #6)
| Born
on... |
19 Apr. 1946 |
| Join
Buran Team in: |
12
Jun. 1984 |
| Left Buran Team in: |
Early 1997 |
| As... |
Civilian Test Pilot |
| Major assignments: |
Back-up commander for 1st Buran
mission |
Graduated from Moscow Air Force Technical School and from a
civil test pilot school; civilian test pilot at LII; was selected as cosmonaut
on 15.02.1984 (LII-3); OKP (cosmonaut basic training): 9/85 - 1987; Zabolotsky
was assigned as back-up commander for the first Buran mission, schedulled for
late 1993; he workes now at the Zhukovsky Flight Test Center of LII.
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