Gennady Strekalov

He is Gennady Strekalov (http://www.sovkos.ru/kosmonavty/strekalov-gennadij (This picture was created before first his flight.))

Gennady Strekalov was a Soviet and Russian cosmonaut, who experienced five space flights. He was born in 1940. Gennady Strekalov finished the school in which I am studying now. My school has a memorial plaque, which was installed at the 70th-anniversary of the cosmonaut. He graduated from Bauman Higher Technical School in 1965 and began to work at the Korolev design bureau taking part in the development of the Soyuz spacecraft.

Strekalov joined the cosmonaut group in 1973 and he made his first flight on 27 November in 1980 as a research engineer on the mission to the Salyut 6 station. Strekalov's next mission was to have been an eight-month expedition to the Salyut 7 station but after launching in April 1983, the crew discovered that their Soyuz T-8's radar had failed and, unable to dock, returned to Earth. The next mission was a disaster for Gennady Strekalov There was a fire on the pad but the launch escape system  pulled the spacecraft away from the rocket to safety only 20 seconds before explosion. Gennady Strekalov called this day his second birthday.

Russian spacemen (http://virtualcosmos.ru/index.php/2015/09/19/strek ())

It took a brave man only half a year to overcome the stress and be ready for the next flight on the Soviet-Indian mission.

The first space flight (http://virtualcosmos.ru/index.php/2015/09/19/strek ())

Strekalov's fourth launch came five years later in August 1990, on a mission to the Mir space station. When Gennady Strekalov passed away, historians found a lot of letters in his archive. People asked him for help. Strekalov helped everyone.

Gennady Strekalov is during training. (http://www.worldharmonyrun.org/russia/friends/huma ())

Gennady Strekalov was a wonderful and extraordinary man. He made a great contribution in the development of the world cosmonautics. I am very proud to be a student of the school where he studied.