Valentin Lebedev
Valentin Vitaliyevich Lebedev (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.
He retired from the space programme in 1993.
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