Yuri Vladimirovich Usachev
Yuri Usachev | |
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Country: | Russia |
selected on | January 25, 1989 |
Calls: | 4 space flights |
Start of the first space flight: |
January 8, 1994 |
Landing of the last space flight: |
August 22, 2001 |
Time in space: | 552d 22h 25min |
EVA inserts: | 6th |
EVA total duration: | 30h 31min |
retired on | April 2004 |
Space flights | |
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Juri Wladimirowitsch Ussatschow ( Russian Юрий Владимирович Усачёв , scientific transliteration Jurij Vladimirovič Usačëv ; born October 9, 1957 in Donetsk , Rostov Oblast , RSFSR , USSR ) is a former Russian cosmonaut .
Ussachev graduated from the public college in 1975. He received an engineering degree from the Moscow State Aviation Institute in 1985. He then took up a position at the space company RKK Energija, where he was responsible for training outboard activities and for public relations.
Ussachev is married and has one daughter.
After his first space flight in 1994, Ussachev was named Hero of the Russian Federation and also received the medal for pilots and cosmonauts.
During his fourth and final space flight, he was a member of the second long-term crew of the international space station and was the commander of the ISS expedition 2 .
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 space shuttle missions
Web links
- Literature by and about Juri Wladimirowitsch Ussatschow in the catalog of the German National Library
- Short biography of Juri Wladimirowitsch Ussatschow at spacefacts.de
- Biography of Yuri Vladimirovich Ussachev in the Encyclopedia Astronautica (English)
- Short biography of Yuri Wladimirowitsch Ussatschow at space.kursknet.ru (English / Russian , archived 2016)
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Ussachev, Yuri Vladimirovich |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Усачёв, Юрий Владимирович |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Russian cosmonaut |
DATE OF BIRTH | October 9, 1957 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Donetsk , Rostov Oblast, RSFSR, USSR |