Aleksandr Lazutkin

Russian cosmonaut (born 1957)

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Aleksandr Ivanovich Lazutkin

Born	(1957-10-30) 30 October 1957 (age 66) Moscow, Soviet Union
Status	Retired
Nationality	Russian
Occupation	Flight engineer
Space career
Roscosmos cosmonaut
Time in space	184d 22h 07m
Selection	1992
Missions	Soyuz TM-25
Mission insignia

Aleksandr Lazutkin's voice recorded October 2012

Aleksandr Ivanovich Lazutkin (Russian: Александр Иванович Лазуткин; born October 30, 1957)^[1] is a former Russian cosmonaut.

Life and career

Lazutkin attended the Moscow Aviation Institute and received a mechanical engineering degree.^[1] He was selected as cosmonaut on March 3, 1992. His first spaceflight was Soyuz TM-25, on which he was the flight engineer.

Lazutkin has said that Russian cosmonauts were given cognac for extended missions in space.^[2]

1997 Progress supply mission

Lazutkin was aboard the Mir Space Station when a collision occurred with the uncrewed Progress M34, its supply craft which was piloted by Vasily Tsibliyev while on the Mir.^[3]^[4] The collision, which is considered the worst in the history of the space age,^[4] knocked out the Spektr's solar panels and took the Mir out of its alignment with the sun, also causing it to lose power.^[4] It also caused the cabin to decompress.^[5]

Quick action by the three crewmen managed to stave off immediate disaster.^[4] Lazutkin and fellow crewman Michael Foale quickly severed the connecting cables with the module and sealed off the hatches to the module, saving the rest of the station.^[6] Lazutkin managed to successfully cut some of the wires connecting the Mir and the Spektr using a tiny dinner knife.^[3] A few days after the collision, Tsibliyev and Lazutkin were ordered to attempt to repair the Mir. Foale was ordered to the Soyuz-TM escape pod.^[3] The station was eventually secured safely.^[4]

References

^ ^a ^b "Aleksandr Ivanovich Lazutkin". European Space Agency. Retrieved 2016-01-08.
^ "Why Astronauts Were Banned From Drinking Wine In Outer Space". Gizmodo. 31 January 2014. Retrieved 2016-01-08.
^ ^a ^b ^c Hollingham, Richard. "The five greatest space hacks of all time". BBC. Retrieved 2016-01-08.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Burrows, William E. (2010-09-29). This New Ocean: The Story of the First Space Age. Random House Publishing Group. ISBN 9780307765482.
^ Kamler, Kenneth (2004-01-20). Surviving the Extremes: A Doctor's Journey to the Limits of Human Endurance. Macmillan. ISBN 9781429976114.
^ Hall, Rex; Shayler, David (2003-05-07). Soyuz: A Universal Spacecraft. Springer Science & Business Media. ISBN 9781852336578.