Multiple Solos

Mike Melville has two spaceflights under his belt, now.

As far as I can tell, that puts him in rare company for person's who've
had more then one astronaut wing qualifying flight, solo.

These are the only ones I can find, offhand:

Joseph Walker
Bill Dana
Joe Engle
Mike Melville

Does anyone any others? (I know this is a useless bit of trivia.)

On 2004-09-29, readme_D0t_Text / wrote:
Mike Melville has two spaceflights under his belt, now.

As far as I can tell, that puts him in rare company for person's who've
had more then one astronaut wing qualifying flight, solo.

There's eight CMPs who've soloed... would you count them? Ditto the
small number of people who've operated free-flying MMUs, perhaps.

Komarov came close - he was prime for the cancelled Vostok 7 - but I
can't think of any others. Alan Shephard? If they had gone for the
long-duration Mercury flight, he'd have been the likely crew...

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On or about 30 Sep 2004 15:51:01 GMT, Andrew Gray made the sensational claim that:
There's eight CMPs who've soloed... would you count them? Ditto the
small number of people who've operated free-flying MMUs, perhaps.

No, not unless they'd soloed on another flight.
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On 2004-10-01, LooseChanj wrote:
On or about 30 Sep 2004 15:51:01 GMT, Andrew Gray made the sensational claim that:
There's eight CMPs who've soloed... would you count them? Ditto the
small number of people who've operated free-flying MMUs, perhaps.

No, not unless they'd soloed on another flight.

Doesn't look like it; only two Mercury crew flew on Apollo, both CDRs.
(Okay, three. But he hadn't soloed before...)

Roosa came close - he was backup CMP for A-16 and -17, and had
previously soloed on -14.

Soyuz solos:

Vladimir Komarov, Soyuz 1
Georgi Beregovoi, Soyuz 3
Vladimir Shatalov, Soyuz 4; Boris Volynov, Soyuz 5.

(There were two additional crew, who flew up on 5 and returned on 4 - so
both of the above only soloed part of the flight)

None of the above soloed on anything else, although some were previously
Vostok backups.

I had a vague memory of a Soyuz soloed (at least flown up solo) in the
Mir era, but can't find anything about it.

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On 1 Oct 2004 17:22:56 GMT, Andrew Gray
wrote:

The last person to be launched solo was Shatalov. There were no solo
Soyuz flights after that one. (Soyuz 4)

I had a vague memory of a Soyuz soloed (at least flown up solo) in the
Mir era, but can't find anything about it.

On 2004-10-02, wrote:

I had a vague memory of a Soyuz soloed (at least flown up solo) in the
Mir era, but can't find anything about it.

The last person to be launched solo was Shatalov. There were no solo
Soyuz flights after that one. (Soyuz 4)

On examination, it seemed I was thinking of Soyuz 34, launched unmanned
to replace Soyuz 32 (which then returned unmanned) at Salyut 6.

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"readme_D0t_Text" /\\/\\ wrote in message
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Bill Dana

"My name -- Jose Jimenez."


Jim McCauley

On Sat, 2 Oct 2004 15:32:29 -0600, "Jim McCauley" jematfriidotnet
wrote:

"readme_D0t_Text" /\\/\\ wrote in message
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Bill Dana

"My name -- Jose Jimenez."

Right age, wrong Bill Dana. Although our Bill Dana got pretty good at
Bill Dana imitations.

Mary

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