Cancelled Spaceflights
TKS
-1
USSR
Planning data
Launch date (planned):
January 1981
Crew
No.
Surname
Given names
Position
1
Stepanov
Eduard Nikolayevich
Commander
2
Glazkov
Yuri Nikolayevich
Flight Engineer
3
Makrushin
Valeri Grigoriyevich
Research Engineer
Backup Crew
No.
Surname
Given names
Position
1
Sarafanov
Gennadi Vasiliyevich
Commander
2
Preobrazhensky
Vladimir Yevgeniyevich
Flight Engineer
3
Romanov
Valeri Aleksandrovich
Research Engineer
Mission objectives
Instead of the
Soyuz
craft, the
TKS
spacecraft was envisaged for missions to the
Almaz
space stations. In 1979, three conditional crews were appointed. These missions never received an official designation.
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Last update on April 26, 2018.