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Gennady Mikhailovich Strekalov (October 26 1940 -
December 25, 2004) was an
Instructor-Test-Cosmonaut and Department Head at
Russian aerospace firm RSC Energia.

==Background==

Strekalov was born on October 26 1940 in the
Mytishohi Moscow region of Russia.  He graduated
from N.E. Bauman Moscow Higher technical
school|Technical School in 1965 with an engineer's
diploma. He died in Moscow on December 25, 2004
from cancer. He was 64 years old.

==Awards and Honors==

* Order of Lenin (3)
* Gold Star (2) 
* Order of People's Friendship

==Space Experience==

Strekalov had worked as an engineer at RSC Energia
since graduation from the N. E. Bauman Moscow
Higher Technical School. He was involved in
experimental investigations and testing of space
technology. He held the degree of candidate of
technical sciences. He independently developed and
released documentation for a series of
enterprise-related products. As part of an
operations group, he participated in mission
control for flights of scientific research
vehicles belonging to the
Russian_Academy_of_Sciences|Academy of Sciences.
In January 1974, he began training as a crew
member for a Soyuz_program|mission aboard the
Soyuz spacecraft as a flight engineer and, in
1976, was part of the backup crew for the Soyuz 22
mission.

Starting October 1978, he underwent flight
training to be the flight engineer for a Soyuz
expedition to visit the long-term Salyut space
station. From November 27 to December 10 1980, he
successfully completed an experimental mission
aboard the Soyuz T-3 spacecraft as a research
engineer as part of the crew composed of L. D.
Kizim, O. G. Malcarov, and G. M. Strekalov. During
the flight, a docking of the Soyuz T-3 spacecraft
with the Salyut 6-Process-11 orbital complex was
accomplished.

From June 1981 to April 1983, he underwent direct
flight training to be the flight engineer of the
primary expedition for a mission aboard the
Soyuz-T spacecraft and the long-term Salyut 7
orbiting station. In the period from April 20|20 -
22 April 1983, he flew aboard the Soyuz T-8
spacecraft as part of a crew comprising V. G.
Titov, G. M. Strekalov, and A. A Screbrov.

From April 3|3 to 11 April 1984, he participated
in a third space mission aboard the Salyut-7
orbital scientific-research complex as part of an
international Soviet-Indian crew including Yu. V.
Malishev, G. M. Strekalov, and R. Sharma, of
India.

In the period from 1 August to 10 December 1990,
he completed a fourth space fight as flight
engineer of the seventh primary expedition to the
Soyuz TM-10 station and the Mir orbital
scientific-research complex as part of a crew
including G. M. Manakov and G. M. Strekalov.

From 3 October to 4 November 1994, he was flight
engineer of the Soyuz TM-21 / Mir EO-18 / STS-71
mission. 


==External link==
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http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/strekalo.htm
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