Anatoli Semyonovich Levchenko was a Soviet Cosmonaut. Levchenko graduated from Chernigov Higher Air Force School in 1964. Buran test pilot, later a civil test pilot for the Soviet Air Force Ministry. Levchenko was planned to be the back-up commander of the first Buran space shuttle flight, and in March 1987 he began extensive training for a Soyuz spaceflight. In December 1987, he occupied the third seat aboard the spacecraft Soyuz TM-4 to the space station Mir, and returned to Earth a week later on Soyuz TM-3. His mission is sometimes referred to as Mir LII-1. In the year following his spaceflight, Levchenko developed a brain tumor and died in the Nikolay Burdenko Neurosurgical Institute in Moscow at the age of 47.He was awarded the titles of Hero of the Soviet Union and Pilot-Cosmonaut of the USSR and the Order of Lenin.
He was married with one child.
He was married with one child.
Anatoli Semyonovich Levchenko was a Soviet Cosmonaut. Levchenko graduated from Chernigov Higher Air Force School in 1964. Buran test pilot, later a civil test pilot for the Soviet Air Force Ministry. Levchenko was planned to be the back-up commander of the first Buran space shuttle flight, and in March 1987 he began extensive training for a Soyuz spaceflight. In December 1987, he occupied the third seat aboard the spacecraft Soyuz TM-4 to the space station Mir, and returned to Earth a week later on Soyuz TM-3. His mission is sometimes referred to as Mir LII-1. In the year following his spaceflight, Levchenko developed a brain tumor and died in the Nikolay Burdenko Neurosurgical Institute in Moscow at the age of 47.He was awarded the titles of Hero of the Soviet Union and Pilot-Cosmonaut of the USSR and the Order of Lenin.
He was married with one child.
He was married with one child.
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