Anatoli Semyonovich Levchenko (May 5 1941 – August 6 1988) was a Soviet cosmonaut.Levchenko was planned to be the back-up commander of the first Buran space shuttle flight and in March 1987 he began extensive training for a Soyuz spaceflight intended to give him some experience in space. In December 1987 he occupied the third seat aboard the spacecraft Soyuz TM-4 to the space station Mir and returned to Earth about a week later on Soyuz TM-3.
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