Gennady Strekalov, born October 26, 1940, went into space 5 times. He lived on Salyut 6, Salyut 7 and Mir.
His first mission into space was aboard Soyuz T-3 as a research cosmonaut November-December 1980 to Salyut 6. He and the rest of the crew of Soyuz T-3 stayed aboard for almost 13 days.
His second trip was as flight engineer on Soyuz T-8 in April 1983 to Salyut 7. The craft failed to dock with the space station and due to damage to Soyuz T-8, the decision was made to return to Earth after only 2 days.
In September 1983, Strekalov attempted to go into space on Soyuz T-10-1 with fellow cosmonaut Vladimir Titov. The launch vehicle was destroyed by fire before the countdown had completed. The escape system fired two seconds before the rocket exploded, saving the crew, battered and bruised but alive.
His third trip, which was successful, was as Flight Engineer on Soyuz T-11 in April 1984 to Salyut 7. He returned to Earth on Soyuz T-10 about a week later.
Gennady's fourth trip was on Soyuz TM-10 as flight engineer to Mir in August 1990. He and Gennadi Manakov spent over 4 months on Mir and returned to Earth December.
His fifth and final trip was on Soyuz TM-21 as flight engineer, launched in March 1995 to Mir. He was part of the crew of the expedition Mir EO-18. He returned to Earth on Atlantis (STS-71) in July.
He passed away Christmas Day 2004 from cancer.
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