Vladimir Nikolayevich Dezhurov (Russian: Влади́мир Никола́евич Дежу́ров) was born on July 30, 1962 in the settlement of Yavas, Zubovo-Polyansky District, Mordovia, Russia. He attended and graduated from the S.I. Gritsevits Kharkov Higher Military Aviation School in 1983 with a pilot engineer’s diploma. After graduating, he served as a pilot and senior pilot in the Air Force.
In 1987, he was assigned to the Cosmonaut Training Center. From December...
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Vladimir Nikolayevich Dezhurov (Russian: Влади́мир Никола́евич Дежу́ров) was born on July 30, 1962 in the settlement of Yavas, Zubovo-Polyansky District, Mordovia, Russia. He attended and graduated from the S.I. Gritsevits Kharkov Higher Military Aviation School in 1983 with a pilot engineer’s diploma. After graduating, he served as a pilot and senior pilot in the Air Force.
In 1987, he was assigned to the Cosmonaut Training Center. From December 1987 to June 1989, he underwent a course of general space training. Since September 1989, he has continued training as a member of a group of test cosmonauts. Since 1991, he has been a correspondence student at the Yuri A. Gagarin Air Force Academy.
In March 1994, Dezhurov began flight training as commander of the prime crew of the Mir-18 mission. The crew launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on March 14, 1995 aboard a Soyuz TM-21 transport vehicle. Following a 115 day flight, the mission concluded with landing at the Kennedy...
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