Yuri Malenchenko
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| Yuri Ivanovich Malenchenko | |
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| Status | Active |
| Born | December 22, 1961 Svitlovodsk, Ukrainian SSR, USSR |
| Other occupation | Fighter pilot |
| Rank | Colonel, Russian Air Force |
| Time in space | 514d 11h 59m |
| Selection | 1987 |
| Missions | Soyuz TM-19, STS-106, Soyuz TMA-2, Expedition 7 Soyuz TMA-11, Expedition 16 |
| Mission insignia |   .png){kind=small}  |
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Yuri Ivanovich Malenchenko (Russian: Юрий Иванович Маленченко ; born December 22, 1961) is a Ukrainian-Russian cosmonaut.
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[edit] Early life
Malenchenko was born in Svitlovodsk, Kirovohrad Oblast, Ukrainian SSR.[1]
Malenchenko graduated from the Kharkov Military Aviation School in 1983, and attended the Zhukovsky Air Force Engineering Academy, graduating in 1993.[1]
Malenchenko became the first person to marry in space, on 10 August 2003, when he married Ekaterina Dmitrieva, who was in Texas, while he was 240 miles over New Zealand, on the International Space Station.
[edit] Spaceflight experience
- Soyuz TM-19: MIR 16 Commander, July 01, 1994 - November 4, 1994 - 125d 22h 53m [2]
- STS-106: Mission Specialist August 08, 2000 - August 20, 2000 - 11d 19h 12m[2]
- Soyuz TMA-2: ISS Expedition 7 Commander, April 26, 2003 - October 28, 2003 - 184d 22h 46m
- Soyuz TMA-11: ISS Expedition 16 Flight Engineer 1 - October 10, 2007 - April 19, 2008 - 191d 19h 8m[1]
[edit] References
- ^ a b c NASA (2007). "Yuri Ivanovich Malenchenko". National Aeronautic and Space Administration. http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/malenchenko.html. Retrieved on October 10 2007.
- ^ a b "Cosmonaut biography: Yuri Malenchenko". SPACEFACTS. http://www.spacefacts.de/bios/cosmonauts/english/malenchenko_yuri.htm. Retrieved on 2008-03-29.
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