Yuri Viktorovich Romanenko
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| Yuri Romanenko on a Soviet postage stamp (left, with Georgi Grechko ) |
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| Country: | USSR |
| Call sign: | Таймыр (" Taimyr ") |
| selected on | April 27, 1970 |
| Calls: | 3 space flights |
| Start of the first space flight: |
December 10, 1977 |
| Landing of the last space flight: |
December 29, 1987 |
| Time in space: | 430d 18h 21min 31s |
| EVA inserts: | 4th |
| EVA total duration: | 10h 16min |
| retired on | October 11, 1988 |
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Juri Wiktorovič Romanenko ( Russian Юрий Викторович Романенко , scientific transliteration Jurij Viktorovič Romanenko ; born August 1, 1944 in Koltubanowski , Chkalov Oblast , Russian SFSR ) is a pilot and former Soviet cosmonaut . As a spaceship commander, he used the callsign Таймыр (" Taimyr ").
Life
After Juri Romanenko successfully completed his visit to the Air Force College in Chernigov in 1966 , he was selected as a cosmonaut by the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center on April 27, 1970. The pilot had his first mission in 1977 as the commander of the first regular crew of Salyut 6 , which he reached with the Soyuz 26 . On December 20, 1977 he undertook a space exit to remove foreign objects from a coupling socket. Romanenko returned to Earth after 95 days with Soyuz 27 . In 1980 he flew into space with Soyuz 38 as the commander of the eighth visiting team from Salyut 6 .
After Yuri Romanenko successfully completed his training as an engineer pilot at the Air Force Military Academy in Monino in 1981 , he flew to the Mir space station in 1987 as the commander of the first regular crew with Soyuz TM-2 . During three outboard works on April 11, June 12 and June 16, 1987, he participated in the expansion of the Mir by installing a solar cell carrier with two solar cells . During his entire active time as a spaceman, the engineer pilot was a substitute for several Soyuz missions. On November 11, 1988 Romanenko resigned from the cosmonaut corps.
Yuri Romanenko later became director of the Soviet Buran program. In 1995 he retired from active military service , meanwhile promoted to Colonel in the Russian Air Force, in order to take up a position at SAO "Stilteks".
Romanenko is married. One of his two children is the cosmonaut Roman Jurjewitsch Romanenko, born in 1971 .
See also
- List of manned missions to the Salyut 6 space station
- List of manned missions to the Mir space station
- List of Salyut 6 expeditions
- List of Mir expeditions
literature
- Peter Stache: spaceman from A to Z . Military publishing house of the German Democratic Republic, Berlin [East] 1988, ISBN 3-327-00527-3 .
swell
- Short biography at spacefacts.de
- Short biography ( memento from April 1, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) at space.kursknet.ru (English / Russian)
- Yuri Wiktorowitsch Romanenko in the Encyclopedia Astronautica (English)
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| SURNAME | Romanenko, Yuri Viktorovich |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Романенко, Юрий Викторович (Russian spelling) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | soviet cosmonaut, pilot |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 1, 1944 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Koltubanovsky , Chkalov Oblast , Russian SFSR, Soviet Union |