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Biography of Aleksandr Pavlovich - Astronaut
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Aleksandr Pavlovich Aleksandrov (Cyrillic alphabet|Cyrillic Алексан& #1076;р Павлови& #1095; Алексан& #1076;ров, born February 20 1943) is a former Russian cosmonaut. Born in Moscow, Russia, he graduated from Moscow Bauman-Highschool in 1969 with a doctorate degree, specialised on spacecraft steering systems. He was selected as cosmonaut on December 1 1978. After being backup for Soyuz T-8, he flew as Flight Engineer on Soyuz T-9. He was backup again on Soyuz T-13 and Soyuz T-15, and had his second spaceflight on Soyuz TM-3. Altogether he spend 309 days 18 hours 3 minutes in space. He resigned from the cosmonaut team on October 26 1993, when he became chief of NPOE Cosmonaut-group; since 1996 he is Chief flight test directorate of RKKE. He is married with two children.
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