Yuri Valentinovich Lontschakow

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Yuri Lonchakov
Yuri Lonchakov
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
Space flights

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

Web links

Commons : Yuri Lonchakov  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Before the flight to the ISS: Russian cosmonaut quits his job. September 6, 2013, accessed September 6, 2013 .
  2. 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 .