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Personal: Male, Married. Born in Vienna, Austria. Crash of a Su-26M aerobatic aircraft on LII (Zhukovsky Flight Research Center). Soviet Air Force Graduated from Kachinsk Higher Military Pilot School, 1970. Graduated from Zhukovsky Test Pilot School. Graduated from Moscow Aviation Institute, 1980. Soviet Air Force Civilian test pilot at LII. Astronaut Career Astronaut Group: Buran Group - 1978, MAP Group 1 - 1981. Deceased Entered space service: 30 July 1980. Left space service: 18 August 1988. Cosmonaut training December 1978 - July 1980. Buran Test Pilot.
Shchukin Chronology 1986 Early - Soyuz T-15A (cancelled). Final expedition to Salyut 7 station was cancelled when control was lost. 26 April 1986 - Buran Analog BST-02 taxi test 6. Time 14 minutes. 20 June 1986 - Buran Analog BST-02 flight 5. Time 25 minutes. 28 June 1986 - Buran Analog BST-02 flight 6. Time 23 minutes. 29 December 1986 - Buran Analog BST-02 flight 9. Time 17 minutes. 29 March 1987 - Buran Analog BST-02 taxi test 7. Time 2 minutes. 30 March 1987 - Buran Analog BST-02 taxi test 8. Time 25 minutes. 21 May 1987 - Buran Analog BST-02 flight 12. Time 20 minutes. 5 October 1987 - Buran Analog BST-02 flight 14. Automatic landing. Time 21 minutes. 21 December 1987 - Soyuz TM-4. Mir Expedition EO-03. Carried Musa Manarov, Anatoly Levchenko, Vladimir Titov to Mir; returned crew of Soyuz TM-5 to Earth. Orbits 168 x 243 km, 255 x 296 km, 333 x 359 km. Docked with Mir 12:51 GMT 23 December. 30 December moved to forward port. 2 April 1988 - Buran Analog BST-02 flight 23. Time 20 minutes. 8 April 1988 - Buran Analog BST-02 flight 24. 18 August 1988 - Cosmonaut Alexandr Vladimirovich Shchukin dies at age of 42 -- Crash of Su-26 acrobatic aircraft.. Bibliography:
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