Yuri Mikhailovich Baturin

Yuri Baturin
Country:	Russia
Organization:	Roscosmos
selected on	September 16, 1997
Calls:	2 space flights
Start of the first space flight:	August 13, 1998
Landing of the last space flight:	May 6, 2001
Time in space:	19d 17h 45min
retired on	May 31, 2009
Space flights
Soyuz TM-28 / Soyuz TM-27 (1998/1999) Me EP-4 Soyuz TM-32 / Soyuz TM-31 (2001)

Juri Michailowitsch Baturin ( Russian Юрий Михайлович Батурин , scientific transliteration Jurij Michajlovič Baturin ; born June 12, 1949 in Moscow , Russian SFSR ) is a former Russian politician and Russian cosmonaut.

Baturin was the first Russian politician to fly into space. As a national security advisor to Russian President Boris Yeltsin , he was selected to take a flight as a visitor to the Mir space station , and in 1998 flew to the Mir space station as a research cosmonaut on the Soyuz TM-28 mission .

After this flight he lost his political offices, but he completed the full cosmonaut training that enables him to be used as a flight engineer on Soyuz spacecraft. From 2000 he was a civilian member of the cosmonaut contingent of the Russian Air Force.

On April 28, 2001, he took off on board a Russian Soyuz spacecraft on the Soyuz TM-32 flight to the International Space Station . Two days later, on April 30, the spacecraft docked at the station at 7:59 a.m. UTC. On this mission, the space flight of the first space tourist Dennis Tito , he served as a flight engineer.

Baturin was not the first incumbent politician in space; a US senator and a US congressman flew into space before him. However, Baturin was the first and so far only politician who subsequently became a professional spaceman and undertook another space flight.

See also

• List of spacemen
• List of manned missions to the Mir space station
• List of manned missions to the International Space Station
• List of Soyuz missions
• Russian space travel

Web links

• spacefacts.de: Short biography