In the history of technology, Aleksandr Nikolayevich Balandin is one of the names that keeps returning.
The record lists Aleksandr Nikolayevich Balandin as Soviet cosmonaut.
Aleksandr Nikolayevich Balandin was born at Fryazino in 1953. His recorded nationality is the Soviet Union. He was educated at Bauman Moscow State Technical University.
The twentieth century made work collective, expensive and political, with consequences that reached well beyond the people doing it.
He worked as engineer, astronaut and flight engineer.
Technology is judged by adoption: an invention nobody uses is a curiosity.
His work was formally recognised with the Order of Lenin, Hero of the Soviet Union and Pilot-Cosmonaut of the USSR.
That the work was done from the Soviet Union matters. Opportunity has never been evenly distributed, and where a person is based shapes which doors open and whose work gets seen.
Aleksandr Nikolayevich Balandin is still at work, and the final assessment has not been made - the ordinary condition of a living career.
Achievements
- Educated at Bauman Moscow State Technical University
- Worked as engineer, astronaut and flight engineer
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