Valentin Vitalievich Lebedev is a famous Soviet test cosmonaut. He was awarded the highest state awards.
Biography
Valentin was born in Moscow in 1942. His father was a military man and his mother was an accountant. The younger sister Lyudmila was born at the end of 1945.
The future cosmonaut graduated from secondary school in Naro-Fominsk, Moscow Region. Then the army and admission to the aviation school as a navigator, where the study lasted only a year, since the military institution was disbanded.
In 1960, Valentin Vitalievich entered the Moscow Aviation Institute. Here the future famous space explorer studies aircraft in detail at the faculty of the same name. In practical classes, he and his fellow students begin to learn to fly in small cars, which he later changed to more powerful ones, including helicopters. In his student years, Lebedev was sent to the detachment of novice cosmonauts.
Valentin Vitalievich graduated from the institute and went to work at the Central Design Bureau of Mechanical Engineering, headed by designer and scientist S. P. Korolev.
Career
In 1967, as a representative from the Central Design Bureau, V. V. Lebedev. is a member of the Navy's flight search expedition. A year later, he became the head of the maintenance team for the famous space station "Probe", which circled the moon and brought materials for research from there.
Valentin Lebedev:
- He was engaged in preparations for the tests of the Soyuz and orbital stations.
- He led the Baikonur group.
- He trained future space explorers on simulators.
- Drafted documents for orbital stations.
- Created methods for the approach and docking of ships.
In 1965, Lebedev successfully passed an authoritative medical commission and received permission to special. training, and since he was already a member of the cosmonaut corps, preparations for space flights began immediately.
Dreams Come True
Valentin Lebedev made his first flight on the Soyuz-13 spacecraft. This important fact of the cosmonaut's public and private life came true in 1973. Its duration lasted more than 7 days. Lebedev V. V. for his contribution to space exploration he was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union, awarded the Order of Lenin and the Golden Star.
Lebedev's second flight was noted in the Guinness Book of Records in 1984. The Soyuz spacecraft flight engineer was in flight for almost 212 days. He made a spacewalk for 2 hours 33 minutes. And again rewarding: the Order of Lenin and the "Golden Star".
Valentin Vitalievich was a member of the National Olympic Committee. He also held the position of Deputy Director for Science of the Institute of Geography for four years. The cosmonaut showed his creative talent by writing the book "Staying on the Road to Space". There are other works on his account.
Since 1993 V. V. Lebedev is the Director of the Scientific Geoinformation Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Corresponding Member, Doctor of Technical Sciences, Professor. He wrote many scientific papers and made a lot of inventions.
