Aleksandr Lazutkin

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Aleksandr Ivanovich Lazutkin
1992
Missions	Soyuz TM-25
Mission insignia
Aleksandr Lazutkin's voice recorded October 2012

Aleksandr Ivanovich Lazutkin (

Life and career

Lazutkin attended the Moscow Aviation Institute and received a mechanical engineering degree.^[1] He was selected as cosmonaut on March 3, 1992. His first spaceflight was Soyuz TM-25, on which he was the flight engineer.

Lazutkin has said that Russian cosmonauts were given cognac for extended missions in space.^[2]

1997 Progress supply mission

Lazutkin was aboard the Mir Space Station when a collision occurred with the uncrewed Progress M34, its supply craft which was piloted by Vasily Tsibliyev while on the Mir.^[3][4] The collision, which is considered the worst in the history of the space age,^[4] knocked out the Spektr's solar panels and took the Mir out of its alignment with the sun, also causing it to lose power.^[4] It also caused the cabin to decompress.^[5]

Quick action by the three crewmen managed to stave off immediate disaster.^[4] Lazutkin and fellow crewman Michael Foale quickly severed the connecting cables with the module and sealed off the hatches to the module, saving the rest of the station.^[6] Lazutkin managed to successfully cut some of the wires connecting the Mir and the Spektr using a tiny dinner knife.^[3] A few days after the collision, Tsibliyev and Lazutkin were ordered to attempt to repair the Mir. Foale was ordered to the Soyuz-TM escape pod.^[3] The station was eventually secured safely.^[4]

See also

• List of Heroes of the Russian Federation

References

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