Yuri Valentinovich Lontschakow
Yuri Lonchakov | |
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Country: | Russia |
Organization: | Roscosmos |
Call sign: | Титан (" Titan ") |
selected on | July 28, 1997 |
Calls: | 3 space flights |
Start of the first space flight: |
April 19, 2001 |
Landing of the last space flight: |
April 8, 2009 |
Time in space: | 200d 18h 39min |
EVA inserts: | 2 |
EVA total duration: | 10h 27min |
retired on | September 14, 2013 |
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Yury Lonchakov ( Russian Юрий Валентинович Лончаков ., Scientific transliteration Jurij Valentinovič Lončakov ; * 4. March 1965 in Balkhash , Kazakhstan SSR , Soviet Union ) is a former Russian cosmonaut . Since 2014 he has been the head of the Yuri Gagarin cosmonaut training center .
Military training
Yuri Lonchakov joined the Soviet Air Force after graduating from school in 1982. He served as a parachutist and pilot and was accepted into the cosmonaut corps in 1997.
Cosmonaut activity
His first space flight was on a space shuttle on the STS-100 mission that was visiting the International Space Station . Lonchakov paid another visit to the ISS in 2002 with Soyuz TMA-1 .
Since October 27, 2003 he was the commander of the cosmonaut group of the cosmonaut training center.
Lonchakov was on the substitute team of the 18th long-term crew for the International Space Station. At the beginning of May 2008, Salishan Sharipov , who was supposed to be the commander, fell ill and Lonchakov moved up. On October 12, 2008, he took off for the ISS on the Soyuz TMA-13 and returned on April 8, 2009.
On September 6, 2013 it was announced that Lontschakow had resigned at Roscosmos and will be leaving on September 14. Until then, it was scheduled for a flight to the ISS as part of ISS expeditions 43 and 44 with the Soyuz TMA-16M spacecraft . After that, he was assistant to the head of Roscosmos, Oleg Ostapenko , who appointed him on April 1, 2014 as director of the Yuri Gagarin cosmonaut training center.
Private
Lonchakov is married and has one son. His hobbies are books, traveling, skiing, playing the guitar, astronomy and photography.
See also
- List of spacemen
- List of manned missions to the International Space Station
- List of space shuttle missions
- List of Soyuz missions
Web links
- NASA biography in the Encyclopedia Astronautica (English)
- spacefacts.de: Short biography
- space.kursknet.ru Short biography ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) (English / Russian)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Before the flight to the ISS: Russian cosmonaut quits his job. September 6, 2013, accessed September 6, 2013 .
- ↑ Yuri Lonchakov Has Been Appointed Head of Cosmonaut Training Center. Center for Operation of Space Ground-Based Infrastructure, April 9, 2014, accessed July 12, 2014 .
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Lontschakow, Yuri Walentinowitsch |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Лончаков, Юрий Валентинович (Russian) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Russian cosmonaut |
DATE OF BIRTH | March 4, 1965 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Balkhash , Kazakh SSR , USSR |