Aleksandr Nikolayevich Balandin

Aleksandr Nikolayevich Balandin
Born (1953-07-30) 30 July 1953 (age 71)
StatusRetired
NationalitySoviet / Russian
OccupationFlight engineer
AwardsHero of the Soviet Union
Space career
Cosmonaut
Time in space
179d 01h 17m
Selection1978 Cosmonaut Group
MissionsSoyuz TM-9

Aleksandr Nikolayevich Balandin (Russian: Александр Николаевич Баландин; born July 30, 1953) is a Russian cosmonaut. He is married with two children. He was selected as a cosmonaut on December 1, 1978, and retired on October 17, 1994.

He flew as a flight engineer on Soyuz TM-9.[1]

He worked at NPO Energia until 1994, and was then President of Lendint-Association until 2000.[2]

  1. ^ "Cosmonaut Biography: Aleksandr Balandin".
  2. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2010-01-31. Retrieved 2010-03-04.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)