Anatoly Levchenko
Anatoly Semyonovich Levchenko | |
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Mir LII-1 (Soyuz TM-4 / Soyuz TM-3 ) |
Anatoly Semyonovich Levchenko (
Trained as a test pilot and selected as a cosmonaut on 12 July 1980,
In March 1987, Levchenko began extensive training for a Soyuz spaceflight, intended to give him some experience in space.
In the year following his spaceflight, Anatoly Levchenko died of a brain tumor, in the Nikolay Burdenko Neurosurgical Institute in Moscow.[4]
He was married with one child.[1]
Awards
He was awarded the titles of Hero of the Soviet Union and Pilot-Cosmonaut of the USSR and the Order of Lenin.
Commemoration
- Anatoly Levchenko is buried at the Bykovskoye Memorial Cemetery in Zhukovsky.
- There is a memorial plate with his image installed on the wall of house 2 at Chkalova Street where Anatoly once lived in Zhukovsky.
See also
- List of notable brain tumor patients
References
- ^ a b "Cosmonaut Biography: Anatoli Levchenko". spacefacts.de. Archived from the original on 21 December 2010. Retrieved 26 November 2010.
- ISBN 978-0-387-69848-9.
- ^ "Mir LII-1". Encyclopedia Astronautica. Archived from the original on 30 November 2010. Retrieved 15 November 2010.
- ^ "Levchenko". Encyclopedia Astronautica. Archived from the original on 20 October 2010. Retrieved 26 November 2010.
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