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Biography of Aleksandr Balandin - Astronaut
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Aleksandr Nikolayevich Balandin (born July 30, 1953 in Fryazino, Moscow Oblast, Russian SFSR) is a Russia|Russian astronaut|cosmonaut. He is married with two children. He was selected as a cosmonaut on December 1, 1978, and retired on October 17, 1994. He flew as a flight engineer on Soyuz TM-9.

