Yuri Pavlovich Gidsenko

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Yuri Gidsenko
Yuri Gidsenko
Country: RussiaRussia Russia
Organization: RoscosmosRoscosmos Roscosmos
selected on March 26, 1987
Calls: 3 space flights
Start of the
first space flight:
September 3, 1995
Landing of the
last space flight:
May 5, 2002
Time in space: 329d 22h 44min
EVA inserts: 2
EVA total duration: 3h 43min
retired on May 2002
Space flights

Juri Pawlowitsch Gidsenko ( Russian Юрий Павлович Гидзенко , scientific transliteration Jurij Pavlovič Gidzenko ; born March  26, 1962 in Jelanez , Mykolaiv Oblast , Ukrainian SSR , USSR ) is a former colonel in the Russian Air Force and Russian spaceman . He is married and has two sons.

Gidsenko attended the Higher Military Aviation School "Sergei Grizewez" in Kharkov ( Ukraine ), which he graduated in 1983. For the next four years he served in the Soviet Air Force as a pilot in the Odessa region .

In March 1987, Gidsenko was selected as a cosmonaut candidate and began basic training at the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center, which he successfully completed in the summer of 1989. A further training course to become a test cosmonaut followed. From Lomonossow University he received a diploma in geodesy and cartography in 1994 .

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