Vladimir Georgiyevich Titov
Vladimir Georgiyevich Titov is a retired Russian Air Force colonel and cosmonaut whose career spans a failed Salyut docking, a dramatic launch-pad abort, a year-long Mir , and two Shuttle-Mir missions. Few profiles show the risk and international transition of late Soviet and post-Soviet spaceflight as clearly.
- Born
- January 1, 1947
- Died
- N/A
- Birthplace
- Sretensk, Chita Oblast,Soviet Union
Flights
5
Spacewalks
4
EVA time
18 hours, 48 minutes
In space
387 days, 52 minutes
Bio
Titov trained as a military pilot and instructor before selection as a cosmonaut in 1976. His early assignments were tied to Salyut 7 repair and station operations, but his first two crewed mission attempts both encountered serious trouble.
Soyuz T-8 reached orbit in 1983 but could not dock with Salyut 7 after -equipment failure. Later that year, Soyuz T-10-1 suffered a launch-vehicle fire on the pad, and Titov and Gennady Strekalov survived after the escape tower pulled their spacecraft clear.
Titov's major long-duration mission launched on Soyuz TM-4 in 1987 and returned on Soyuz TM-6 after a year aboard Mir. He later flew STS-63 and STS-86, helping connect Russian station experience with Shuttle-Mir operations and performing an from Atlantis on STS-86.