Jonathan's Space Report Oct 23 1990 (no.57) ---------------------------------------------------- Tanking tests on Atlantis and Columbia are set for the next week. Discovery is in the orbiter processing facility. Launch of Atlantis is expected around Nov 10 with the AFP-658 recon satellite. Gennadiy Manakov and Gennadiy Strekalov continue in orbit aboard the Mir/Kvant/Kvant-2/Kristall/Soyuz TM-10/Progress M-5 complex. The spacewalk has been delayed to Oct 30 because Strekalov has a cold. Pioneer 11, in the outer solar system, is experiencing communications difficulties. The Kosmos-2102 recon satellite began a 2 month mission on Oct 16, in a 184x338 km orbit at 62.8 degrees inclination. BOOK PLUG:***: "The Soviet Cosmonaut Team" by Gordon Hooper. Available from GRH Publications, 2 Wayne Close, Gunton 2001, LOWESTOFT, Suffolk NR32 4SX, England. 2 vols, paperback, 22 pounds sterling for sea mail, about 35 pounds sterling for airmail. (01144 502 508585) This book gives complete biographies of all the Soviet cosmonauts and cosmonaut trainees, updated to July 1990. It includes discussions of how the cosmonauts were trained, missions that were planned but never flew, details of previously unknown cosmonaut trainees. Quality and accuracy are excellent throughout. Another example of the fine work done by the British Interplanetary Society's Soviet space analysts. Disclaimer: I have no connection with Gordon Hooper or GRH Pubs., I just think its a good book. Since news is light this week, here's a summary of the current Soviet cosmonaut team, with selection dates, drawn from Hooper's book and from Soviet sources: [This list may be incomplete; and I have omitted cosmonauts who are still officially attached to the team although no longer eligible for flights. The 1965 engineers who have not yet flown must be somewhat unlikely to get a chance now, in their fifties.] Soviet Air Force Cosmonaut Detachment 1960 Boris Volynov, Commander of Detachment (inactive) 1965 Yevgeniy Khludeev 1965 Edvard Stepanov 1967 Vladimir Lyakhov (Soyuz 32,T9,TM6) 1967 Yuriy Malyshev (Soyuz T2,T11) 1970 Anatoliy Berezovoy (Soyuz T5) 1970 Nikolai Fefelov 1976 Vladimir Titov (Soyuz T8,TM4) 1976 Aleksandr Volkov (Soyuz T14,TM7) 1976 Anatoliy Solov'yov (Soyuz TM5,TM9) 1978 Aleksandr Viktorenko (Soyuz TM3,TM8) 1987 Gennadiy Manakov (Soyuz TM10; in orbit) 1987 Viktor Afanas'ev 1987 Anatoli Artsebarskiy 1987 Yuriy Gidzenko 1987 Vladimir Dezhurov 1987 Valeriy Kazun 1987 Yuriy Malenchenko 1987 Vasiliy Tsibliev 1989 Yuriy Anufrienko 1989 Sergei Krichevskiy 1989 Gennadiy Padalko Civilian cosmonaut group 1973 Gennadiy Strekalov (Soyuz T3,T8,T11,TM10; in orbit) 1978 Aleksandr Serebrov (Soyuz T7,T8,TM8) 1978 Aleksandr Laveykin (Soyuz TM2) 1978 Musa Manarov (Soyuz TM4) 1978 Aleksandr Balandin (Soyuz TM9) 1980 Svetlana Savitskaya (Soyuz T6,T12) 1980 Irina Pronina 1980 Ekaterina Ivanovna 1985 Sergei Krikalyov (Soyuz TM7) 1985 Aleksandr Kaleri 1985 Andrei Zaitsev 1985 Sergei Yemelyanov 1987 Sergei Avdeev 1989 Nikolai Budarin 1989 Elena Kondakova 1989 Aleksandr Polishchuk 1989 Yuriy Usachyov Institute of Medical-Biological Problems Cosmonaut-Physician Team: 1972 Valeriy Polyakov (Soyuz TM6) 1976 German Arzamazov, Aleksandr Borodin 1982 Elena Dobrokvashina, Larisa Pozharskaya, Tamara Zakharova 1983 Yuriy Stepanov 1984 Robert Dyakonov, Anatoli Zhernovkov Ministry of Aviation Buran Test Pilots 1983 Mohammed Tolboev, Ural Sultanov 1985 Yuriy Sheffer, Sergei Tresvyatskiy, Viktor Zabolotskiy 1988 Yuriy Prikhodko Air Force Buran test pilots 1979 Ivan Bachurin,Aleksei Boroday,Nail Sattarov 1983 Leonid Kadenyuk ___________________________________ |Current STS status: | |Orbiters | | | |OV-102 Columbia LC39B | |OV-103 Discovery OPF Bay 1 | |OV-104 Atlantis LC39A | | | |ML/ET/SRB stacks | | | |ML3/STS-35/ET/OV102 LC39B | |ML1/STS-38/ET/OV104 LC39A | |ML2 VAB | ----------------------------------- (c) 1990 Jonathan McDowell