Anatoli Levchenko
| Anatoli Semyonovich Levchenko | |
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| Cosmonaut | |
| Nationality | Soviet |
| Born | 5 May 1941 Krasnokutsk, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union |
| Died | 6 August 1988 (aged 47) Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union |
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Other occupation
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Test Pilot |
| Rank | Captain, Soviet Air Force |
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Time in space
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7d 21h 58m |
| Selection | 1988 Cosmonaut Group |
| Missions | Mir LII-1 (Soyuz TM-4 / Soyuz TM-3) |
| Awards |
 
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Anatoli Semyonovich Levchenko (Russian: Анатолий Семёнович Левченко; May 5, 1941 – August 6, 1988) was a Soviet cosmonaut.
Levchenko was planned to be the back-up commander of the first Buran space shuttle flight, and in March 1987 he began extensive training for a Soyuz spaceflight, intended to give him some experience in space. In December 1987, he occupied the third seat aboard the spacecraft Soyuz TM-4 to the space station Mir, and returned to Earth about a week later on Soyuz TM-3. His mission is sometimes called Mir LII-1, after the Gromov Flight Research Institute shorthand. In the year following his spaceflight, Levchenko died of a brain tumor, in the Nikolay Burdenko Neurosurgical Institute in Moscow.
Selected as a cosmonaut on July 12, 1980. He was married with one child.
He was awarded the titles of Hero of the Soviet Union and Pilot-Cosmonaut of the USSR and the Order of Lenin.
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