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Grechko believes the feat of creating a satellite, a mission and launching it within a month is impossible for anyone in the world to accomplish today.
Grechko believes the risk, and the expected or probable loss of life, was too high to continue the project especially in the light of the highly successful Apollo landings.
Grechko and Savinykh were positioned at a port hole to photograph the various layers of the atmosphere as the sun set on the horizon.
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 Georgi Grechko   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Grechko - I told them 2 or 3 years ago my opinion about free flyers they rejected and didn't appreciate my idea because it was too new for them, because they are bureaucrats, because they had their money for Freedom and nobody would speak up.
Grechko - When they began to make plans for Mir station it was crazy that after docking they throw away the engine module and I told them its crazy, you should use this modules like free flyers with engines and shouldn't discard the engines after docking [like Kvant 1].
Grechko - The lunar program was ended because the lander was technologically inferior to the Apollo and the risk and expected or probable loss of life was too high to continue the project in the light of the highly successful Apollo landings.
www.launchpad9.hpg.ig.com.br /historia/interview.htm   (3694 words)

  
 Soviet cosmonauts endured many hardships during their training on Earth - PRAVDA.Ru   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Georgi Grechko became part of the Soviet team of cosmonauts in 1966.
Grechko says that the vestibular apparatus tests which cosmonauts had to take during the selection procedures were the hardest experience.
Grechko, when a cosmonaut is on his own taking a spacewalk, he feels like he has been turned upside down.
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 Georgi Grechko   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Georgi Michailovich Grechko was very interested in mathematics and physics at school and later enrolled at the Leningrad Institute of Mechanics, graduating in 1955 with honours, his speciality being computers.
Grechko examined the cone of the docking unit, and noted that it had not even been scratched by the Soyuz 25 docking attempt.
Romanenko and Grechko prepared for their return by starting to mothball the Salyut 6 equipment at the same time increasing their own exercise programme so that their bodies might be prepared for the return to earth.
www.asss.utvinternet.com /articles1/GeorgiGrechko.htm   (1204 words)

  
 TIME Magazine Archive Article -- On the Mississippi: Cruising Peaceful Waters -- Aug. 18, 1986   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Georgi Grechko, the Soviet cosmonaut whose three trips into space have made him a national hero, was at it again.
Grechko is a natural when it comes to pleasing a crowd, more than willing to press the flesh and fortified with a broad, kind smile that adds a human touch to his celebrity status.
Grechko waited as long as he could before getting back on board, and as the Delta Queen slowly churned away from the lock, a song broke out from those on deck: Let There Be Peace on Earth.
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 Grechko
Carried Yuri Romanenko, Georgi Grechko to Salyut 6; returned crew of Soyuz 27 to Earth.
Transported a crew comprising ship's commander V V Vasyutin, flight engineer G M Grechko and cosmonaut-researcher A A Volkov to the Salyut-7 orbital station to conduct scientific and technical studies and experiments.
Grechko returned in Soyuz T-13 on 25 September 1985 - emergency return.
www.friends-partners.org /partners/mwade/astros/grechko.htm   (519 words)

  
 Nat' Academies Press, Leaving Earth: Space Stations, Rival Superpowers, and the Quest for Interplanetary Travel (2003)
Grechko was to open the front docking port, inspect it for damage, and then climb out to inspect the Igla radar antenna on the outside to see if it was in good working order.
Aghast at the pos- sibility, Grechko grabbed at Romanenko's tether, yelling "What's your hurry?!" Grechko had forgotten that Romanenko was still tethered by his umbilical cord, which had to be attached to the station.
Grechko and Romanenko, entirely unaware of the crisis, climbed out of their suits and re-entered the main body of Salynt 6.~° With the port fixed, the two men settled into their planned daily routine.
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 Encyclopedia: Georgi Grechko
Human spaceflight is space exploration with a human crew, and possibly passengers (in contrast to unmanned space missions, which are remotely-controlled or robotic space probes).
Crew Georgi Grechko (1) Aleksei Gubarev (1) Mission Parameters Mass: 6800 kg Perigee: 185 km Apogee: 249 km Inclination: 51.
Crew Launched: Vladimir Vasyutin (1) Georgi Grechko (3) Alexander A. Volkov (1) Landed: Viktor Savinykh (2) Vladimir Vasyutin (1) Alexander A. Volkov (1) Mission Parameters Mass: 6850 kg Perigee: 196 km Apogee: 223 km Inclination: 51.
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Georgi Mikhailovich Grechko was born on 25 May 1931 in Leningrad.
He was evacuated to Chernigov in the Ukraine at the start of the second world war, returning to Leningrad in 1944.
Georgi Grechko joined the cosmonaut detachment in 1966.
www.zarya.info /Diaries/Salyut7/T14crew.html   (254 words)

  
 Active Skim View of: 5. Salyut 6: The End of Isolation
Grechko and Romanenko watched forlornly from Salynt ' + '6, describing to mission control how they could see the spacecraft\'s re-entry engines firing.~7 The two men had decidedly mixed feelings about the departure ' + 'of their guests.
Grechko and Romanenko were ordered to use their vacuum ' + 'cleaner to suck them up.2i Then came the lethal: There was a fire far more serious than anything that had occurred on Salynt 1.
Grechko and Romanenko, entirely unaware of the crisis, ' + 'climbed out of their suits and re-entered the main body of Salynt 6.~° With the port fixed, the two men settled into their planned daily routine.
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 Georgi Grechko explained   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
right Georgi Mikhailovich Grechko (Russian: Георгий Михайлович Гречко; born May 25, 1931 in Leningrad) was a Soviet cosmonaut who flew on three space flights: Soyuz 17, Soyuz 26, and Soyuz T-14.
Grechko, Georgi Mikhailovich Grechko, Georgi Mikhailovich ru:Гречко, Георгий Михайлович
I could give rare descriptions of snug junketing parties at which Tom-come-tickle-me, and other choice old games, and where we Roger de Coverley.
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 Georgi Grechko - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
Georgi Grechko - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
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The article about Georgi Grechko contains information related to Georgi Grechko.
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 Space Exploration Interviews: Historical Reminiscences of Cosmonaut Georgi Grechko, Part 2   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
What follows is part two of an interview with cosmonaut Dr. Georgi Mikhailovich Grechko made on April 7, 1993 by Dennis Newkirk(DN), author of the Almanac of Soviet Manned Space Flight, and James Plaxco(JP).
Grechko was gracious enough to skip lunch to answer our questions in between his CSSS sponsored appearances in the Chicago area recently.
Grechko describes his English as being of the broken variety, or the international language of scientists.
www.astrodigital.org /space/intgrechko2.html   (2247 words)

  
 Georgi Grechko   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Georgi Mikhailovich Grechko (Ruso: ; de mayo nato el 25 de 1931 en Leningrad) era un cosmonaut soviético que voló en tres vuelos espaciales: Soyuz 17, Soyuz 26, y Soyuz T-14.
Grechko graduó del instituto de Leningrad de mecánicos con un doctorate en matemáticas.
English version: Georgi Grechko Next: Viento de Foehn Up
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 Suspect Russian Space Covers   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Georgi Michailovich Grechko and Yuri Viktorovich Romanenko was on board Salyut 6 since Dec. 10.
Moreover, the vibrations of the space station frequently lead to double impressions of individual portions of the handstamp.
Grechko processed a number of envelopes with this onboard stamp.
www.spacephilatelics.com /suchap8-30.html   (248 words)

  
 Georgi Grechko -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Georgi Grechko -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article
He went on to work at (Click link for more info and facts about Sergei Korolev) Sergei Korolev's design bureau and from there was selected for cosmonaut training for the Soviet moon programme.
He resigned from the space programme in 1992 to lecture in atmospheric physics at the (Click link for more info and facts about Soviet Academy of Sciences) Soviet Academy of Sciences.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/G/Ge/Georgi_Grechko.htm   (122 words)

  
 S26   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
He became a became a member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in 1965.
Flight-Engineer Georgi Mikhailovich Grechko, 46, is a Hero of the Soviet Union and comes from Leningrad, where he graduated from the Mechanical Institute in 1955 and started work at a design bureau.
Georgi Grechko joined the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in 1960.
www.zarya.info /Diaries/Salyut6/S26.htm   (177 words)

  
 Georgi Grechko 2   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Grechko, I met Yuri Romanenko a few years ago so it's great to meet you as well, seeing that you both flew together..
I gather we were one of the best crews in space, because we never had trouble between us in space.
Grechko, I believe that you are a Philatelist, you collect stamps?
www.asss.utvinternet.com /articles1/GeorgiGrechko2.htm   (1886 words)

  
 Space Today Online - Answers To Your Questions
Georgi Grechko, a veteran of three Soviet space flights, said in 1991 he witnessed the dummy flights and all early manned flights as assistant to the Soviet Union's chief space rocket designer Sergei Korolev.
Grechko said some rockets blew up before the Gagarin flight.
Grechko, 60 years old at the time of his report in the February 1991 issue of the Russian newspaper Completely Secret, confirmed Gagarin was the first man in space.
www.spacetoday.org /Questions/FirstMannedMission.html   (1516 words)

  
 The National Online - Race to the Moon   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Georgi Grechko was one of those young engineers on Korolev's team.
It wasn't simply to have an office full of engineers but rather to build a real team with the right stuff.
That's why we were ahead of America in those early years," Grechko says.
tv.cbc.ca /national/pgminfo/moon/index.html   (438 words)

  
 Gubarev
Later, he trained for space flight on Soyuz type spacecraft and on orbital stations of Salyut.
In September 1973 he commanded the reserve crew (with Georgi Mikhailovich Grechko) for the Soyuz-12 flight.
He performed his first flight from January 11 through February 9, 1975, together with Grechko, as commander of Soyuz-17 and the orbital complex Salyut-4 - Soyuz-17 (call sign Zenit).
www.friends-partners.org /partners/mwade/astros/gubarev.htm   (743 words)

  
 Grechko
Kubasov, Volkov, and Grechko have been accepted by the VVS for cosmonaut training, with some relaxation in health requirements.
Grechko, Zakharov, Shtemenko, Ivashutin, Vershinin, Rudenko and with dozens of other generals view a film prepared by the GRU on the American Apollo program.
Soyuz 27 landed at 11:19 GMT with the crew of Grechko and Romanenko aboard.
www.astronautix.com /astros/grechko.htm   (2902 words)

  
 Georgi
1995 Georgi Timofeyevich Beregovoi, U.S.S.R., cosmonaut (Soyuz 3), dies at 74
1942 Georgi Ivanov, born in Bulgaria, cosmonaut, Soyuz 33
1921 Georgi Timofeyevich Beregovoi, U.S.S.R., cosmonaut, Soyuz 3
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 Flown and Autographed Soviet Flag
It is from the personal collection of Soyuz-26 flight engineer Georgi Grechko and hand signed by him and cosmonaut Yuri Romanenko as illustrated in the photo's below.
This picture shows cosmonauts Yuri Romanenko and Georgi Grechko arriving for launch December 10, 1977.
Both Cosmonauts Romanenko and Grechko set a space endurance record aboard Salyut-6 station, which they had boarded on December 11, 1977.
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 KhodorkovskyTrial.com - Press Center for Mikhail Khodorkovsky.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
July 7, 2005: In a letter published by Novaya Gazeta, Mikhail Khodorkovsky's mother, Marina, admonishes cosmonaut Georgi Grechko, one of 50 well-known Russians who signed a letter supporting Khodorkovsky's prison sentence.
In the letter, Marina states her doubts that Grechko has enough knowledge of the case to pass judgment and invites him to visit the orphanage supported financially by Mikhail and managed by Marina and Boris, his parents.
June 28, 2005: In an interview with Komsomolskaya Pravda, Mikhail Khodorkovsky's wife, Inna, discusses her reaction to the verdict and describes how she has had to adjust to being the head of the household.
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 Soyuz T-13 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Viktor Savinykh and Vladimir Dzhanibekov salvaged the Salyut 7 station, which had been crippled by a solar array problem.
Savinykh remained aloft for 169 days, returning to Earth in Soyuz-T 14; Dzhanibekov returned to Earth in Soyuz-T 13 with Grechko after spending 110 days on Salyut 7.
Before deorbiting, Soyuz-T 13 spent about 30 h conducting rendezvous and docking tests.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Soyuz_T-13   (503 words)

  
 Salyut 6 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Cosmos 1267 proved that large modules could dock automatically with space stations, a major step toward the multimodular Mir station and the International Space Station.
On December 10 1977 the first crew, Yuri Romanenko and Georgi Grechko, arrived on Soyuz 26 and remained aboard Salyut 6 for 96 days.
On June 15 1978, Vladimir Kovalyonok and Aleksandr Ivanchenkov (Soyuz 29) arrived and remained on board for 140 days.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Salyut_6   (778 words)

  
 Salyut41
One of these was unmanned and another suffered a launch failure.
The Soyuz 17 crew, Aleksei Gubarev and Georgi Grechko, launched from Baikonur on Jan. 10, 1975.
They were greeted to the station by a note left inside from the preparation crew that read, "Wipe your feet!" They spent 29 days in space, and then returned, landing 100 kilometers northeast of Tselinograd on Feb. 9.
www.aerospaceguide.net /spacestation/salyut4.html   (462 words)

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