Valentin Lebedev
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| Cosmonaut | |
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| Nationality | Soviet |
| Born | April 14, 1942 (age 64) Moscow, Russia |
| Occupation1 | Engineer |
| Space time | 219d 05h 59m |
| Selection | 1965 Cosmonaut Group |
| Mission(s) | Soyuz 13, Soyuz T-5 |
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Valentin Vitaliyevich Lebedev (Russian: Валентин Витальевич Лебедев; born April 14, 1942 in Moscow) was a Soviet cosmonaut who made two flights into space.
Lebedev was a graduate of the Higher Air Force School in Orenburg with a doctorate in technical sciences. He worked as an aircraft designer before joining the cosmonaut team in 1972 as a civilian engineer.
He was the flight engineer for the Soyuz 13 mission the following year, and for the Soyuz T-5 mission to the Salyut 7 space station in 1982. At the end of his stay on the station, he returned in the Soyuz T-7 capsule. His Diary of a Cosmonaut: 211 Days in Space, provides a rare glimpse of what life on board the Salyut 7 was like for the Cosmonauts who lived and worked there.
He retired from the space programme in 1993.
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