Name: Zabolotsky, Viktor Country: Soviet Union M/F: M Number of Flights: 0* / 1

Buran Flights Date of Flight - Buran Analogue Buran Flight Notes
*1. Buran Analogue
Taxi Test 9
December 29, 1989 - BST-02 Taxi Test with Stankyavichus

Space Flights Descriptions
Buran Analogue Buran Analogue Test Pilot
*1. Taxi Test 9
- December 29, 1989 - BST-02 (Taxi Test with Stankyavichus)
* Doesn't count as a flight for Zabolotsky
Buran Flight 5 (3K1)
(Cancelled)
By July 1992 the Soviet Air Force wanted Zabolotsky as a member of the backup crew.
Buran Flight 5 would have been the first flight of the third Buran space shuttle; the first shuttle to equipped with life support systems and ejection seats. Two cosmonauts would have attached the 37KBI module to Mir's Kristall module with the Buran robotic arm. The Buran program was cancelled in June 1993.

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Buran Analogue Flights - 1989

Updated - March 26, 2006