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Biography of Valentin Lebedev - Astronaut
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Valentin Vitaliyevich Lebedev (Russian language|Russian: Валенти& #1085; Виталье& #1074;ич Лебедев; born April 14, 1942 in Moscow) was a Soviet Union|Soviet astronaut|cosmonaut who made two crewed space mission|flights into space. Lebedev was a graduate of the Higher Air Force School in Orenburg with a doctorate in technical sciences. He worked as an aircraft designer before joining the cosmonaut team in 1972 as a civilian engineer. He was the flight engineer for the Soyuz 13 mission the following year, and for the Soyuz T-5 mission to the Salyut 7 space station in 1982. At the end of his stay on the station, he returned in the Soyuz T-7 capsule. His Diary of a Cosmonaut: 211 Days in Space, provides a rare glipse of what life on board the Salyut 7 was like for the Cosmonauts who lived and worked there. He retired from the space programme in 1993.
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