- Valentin Lebedev
Infobox Astronaut
name =Valentin Vitaliyevich Lebedev
type =Cosmonaut
Russia =Russia
nationality =Soviet
date_birth =birth date and age|1942|04|14
place_birth =Moscow ,Russia
occupation =Engineer
selection =1965 Cosmonaut Group
time =219d 05h 59m
mission =Soyuz 13 ,Soyuz T-5
insignia =Salyut |Valentin Vitaliyevich Lebedev ( _ru. Валентин Витальевич Лебедев; born
April 14 ,1942 inMoscow ) was a Soviet cosmonaut who made two flights into space.Lebedev was a graduate of the
Higher Air Force School inOrenburg with a doctorate in technical sciences. He worked as an aircraft designer before joining the cosmonaut team in 1972 as a civilian engineer.He was the flight engineer for the
Soyuz 13 mission the following year, and for theSoyuz T-5 mission to theSalyut 7 space station in 1982. At the end of his stay on the station, he returned in theSoyuz T-7 capsule. His "Diary of a Cosmonaut: 211 Days in Space," provides a rare glimpse of what life on board theSalyut 7 was like for the Cosmonauts who lived and worked there.He retired from the space programme in 1993.
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