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Popov, Leonid Ivanovich
 Popov Credit: www.spacefacts.de |
Status: Inactive; Active 1970-1987. Born: 1945-08-31. Spaceflights: 3 . Total time in space: 200.61 days. Birth Place: Aleksandrya, Kirovograd.
Graduated from Higher Air Force School Chernigov, with a degree in electrical engineering, 1968. Graduated from Gagarin Military Academy, Monino, 1976. Graduated from Military General Staff Academy, Moscow, 1989. Call sign: Dnepr (Dnieper). Worked in the General Staff of the Air Forces within the Ministry of Defense. Resigned from active duty in 1995.
More at: Popov.
Family: Cosmonaut. Country: Ukraine. Spacecraft: Salyut 6, Salyut 7. Flights: Soyuz 22, Soyuz 32, Soyuz 35, Soyuz 37, Soyuz 40, Soyuz T-5, Soyuz T-7, Soyuz T-13 EO-4-a, Soyuz T-13 EO-4-b. Projects: ASTP. Agency: VVS. Bibliography: 4452, 5904.
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1945 August 31 - .
- Birth of Leonid Ivanovich Popov - . Nation: Ukraine. Related Persons: Popov. Ukrainian pilot cosmonaut 1970-1987. 3 spaceflights, 200.6 days in space. Flew to orbit on Soyuz 35 (1980), Soyuz 40, Soyuz T-7..
1970 March 24 - .
- Only nine of 16 cosmonaut-finalists cleared by the KGB and Communist Party - .
Nation: Russia.
Related Persons: Berezovoi,
Dedkov,
Dzhanibekov,
Fefelov,
Illarionov,
Isaulov,
Kozlov, Vladimir,
Popov,
Romanenko.
Kamanin reports that only nine of 16 cosmonaut-candidates that completed the arduous selection process have been cleared by the KGB and Communist Party for actual acceptance for cosmonaut training. He feels this makes the whole time-consuming selection process a waste of time. The VVS is reluctant to submit officers as cosmonaut candidates, fearing that if they fail the vestibular table tests they will not only be rejected as cosmonauts, but be unable to return to flight duty with the Air Force. The result is a final selection of dullards, who are not intellectual, or literary, or sports enthusiasts, who are poor readers and not really interested in spaceflight or cosmonautics. The final decree has been issued reorganising TsUKOS as GUKOS.
1970 April 27 - .
- Soviet Air Force Cosmonaut Training Group 5 selected. - . Nation: Russia. Related Persons: Berezovoi, Dedkov, Dzhanibekov, Fefelov, Illarionov, Isaulov, Kozlov, Vladimir, Popov, Romanenko.
1970 April 30 - .
- Pressure on cosmonauts for more public relations tasks. - . Nation: Russia. Related Persons: