Aleksandr Ivanovich Lazutkin

Aleksandr Lazutkin

Born 30 October 1957 in Moscow. Married with two children. Hobbies are sport and astronomy.
 
Education

Graduated from Moscow Aviation Institute with a mechanical engineering degree.

Experience

Worked as a research scientist with MAI. Since 14 November 1984 he worked as an engineer with NPO Energiya.

Selected as a cosmonaut on 3 March 1992.

Back-up crew for Soyuz TM-23 and TM-24 missions to Mir

Spaceflight experience

From 10 February 1997 to 14 August 1997, Flight Engineer of the Mir-23 mission. Spent 184.92 days in orbit.

Currently assigned as back-up Flight Engineer to the 5S taxi-flight crew scheduled for launch to the International Space Station on 28 October 2002.
 
 
 
Last update: 27 September 2002