Friday, May 21, 2021, marks 80 years since the birth of the Hero of the Soviet Union, the pilot-cosmonaut of the USSR Anatoly Semenovich Levchenko.
He graduated from Chernihiv Vwaul: Military pilot (1964), School of Test pilots, Lii Map, Zhukovsky Moscow region. (1971). From 1964 to 1970 – served in the Air Force of Turkestan. In 1970 he went to the reserve. Since 1971, the test pilot (since 1979 – the pilot test of the 1st class) Lii. In 1981, a detachment of cosmonauts tests created in Lii MAP is enrolled. In 1977, included in a group for OK “Buran”. Since 1983, on the Lii’s base, it was prepared for the Space Flight to OK Buran, during which the manual control systems and automatic landing on the Tu-154 laboratory and the MiG-25 aircraft, equipped with Su “Burana”, was worked out. Completed four flights to BTS-02 (analogue OK “Buran”) as the crew commander (06/20/1986-21.05.1987).
made one space flight: KC “Union TM-4” – OK “Mir” – KK “Union TM-3” in 1987. After returning to the Earth, he conducted an experiment in order to evaluate the pilot reaction when controlling OK “Buran” after exposure to space flight factors. From 1987 – Deputy. Head of the Sectoral Test Cosmonaut Preparation Complex. He was awarded the Order of Lenin (1987). “Honored Test pilot of the USSR” (1986).
Pilot-cosmonaut of the USSR Anatoly Semenovich Levchenko died on August 6, 1988. Buried on the Bykovsky cemetery in the city of Zhukovsky Moscow region