12 Facts About Valentin Lebedev

Valentin Vitalyevich Lebedev is a former Soviet cosmonaut who made two flights into space.

Valentin Lebedev's stay aboard the Space Station Salyut 7 with Anatoly Berezovoy in 1982, which lasted 211 days, was recorded in the Guinness Book of Records.

Valentin Lebedev continues as that Center's Director through the present day.

Valentin Lebedev is a corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Professor, and Honored Scientist of the Russian Federation.

Valentin Lebedev continued his studies at the Moscow Aviation Institute, from which he graduated in 1966.

In 1967 Valentin Lebedev participated in an expedition of the Eighth Naval Squadron to locate, rescue, and rehabilitate the spaceship Zond after its landing in the Indian Ocean.

In 1968 Valentin Lebedev led the specialists in Bombay supporting Zond 5, which flew around the Moon and returned to Earth.

Valentin Lebedev continued leading technical detachments in the flying, design, testing and control of the spaceship Soyuz and Soyuz T, and the orbiting space stations Salyut 4, Salyut 5, and Salyut 6.

Valentin Lebedev earned a diploma in 1972, given the title Cosmonaut Investigator, and taken on to the cosmonaut's team ZKBEM.

From 1989 until 1991, Valentin Lebedev worked as deputy director of science at the Institute of Geography AS USSR, completely dedicated to scientific work.

One of the latest scientific projects of Valentin Lebedev and his staff, executed within a program called "Science To Moscow", is a work to remotely monitor Moscow transport traffic flow.

Valentin Lebedev was awarded 26 authors certificates for inventions introduced in the Soyuz and Salyut missions.