Yuri Ivanovich Malenchenko

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Yuri Malenchenko
Yuri Malenchenko
Country: Russia
Organization: Roscosmos
selected on March 26, 1987
Calls: 6 space flights
Start of the
first space flight: 		July 1, 1994
Landing of the
last space flight: 		June 18, 2016
Time in space: 827d 09h 20m
EVA inserts: 6th
EVA total duration: 35h 35min
retired on 2nd September 2016
Space flights

Yuri Ivanovich Malenchenko ( Russian Юрий Иванович Маленченко , scientific transliteration Jurij Ivanovič Malenčenko ; born December 22, 1961 , Switlowodsk , Kirowohrad region , Ukrainian SSR , USSR ) is a former Russian cosmonaut of Ukrainian descent. He is the first person to get married in space.

Malenchenko went to primary and secondary school in Svitlovodsk. Then he attended the Higher Military Aviation School "Sergei Grizewez" in Kharkov , which he graduated in 1983. For the next few years he served in the Soviet Air Force as a pilot and squadron leader in the Odessa region .

Cosmonaut activity

In March 1987, Malenchenko was elected to the Soviet cosmonaut squad. He moved to Moscow and began basic training in “ Star City ” in December , which he completed in the summer of 1989 as a test cosmonaut.

His first flight-specific training began in January 1993, when he was preparing for the role of second substitute commander of Soyuz TM-17 . For this he had to attend the military academy for engineers of the air force “Prof. NJ Schukowski ” , where he was successfully trained as a tactical officer.

Me EO-16

From February 1994, Malenchenko was finally subordinated to the Soyuz TM-19 team . The mission of the 16th permanent crew with Malenchenko and Mussabaev to the Mir space station began in early July 1994 and lasted four months. At the beginning of September, Malenchenko carried out the first manually controlled coupling of a Progress cargo spaceship and a few days later the two Mir spacemen left the station twice for a total of eleven hours. When the replacement arrived at the beginning of October, she had the German Ulf Merbold on board. It was his third flight for him. He lived and worked on Mir for a month and then returned with Malenchenko and Musabaev.

In November 1994, Malenchenko was awarded the Hero of the Russian Federation by a decree of the then Russian President, Boris Yeltsin .

STS-106

Malenchenko began training for his second space flight in October 1998. STS-101 was a Space Shuttle mission and was scheduled to begin in the fall of 1999. Malenchenko was assigned to the crew as a mission specialist and therefore traveled to Houston , Texas, USA . In the spring of 2000, NASA divided the tasks and crew of flight STS-101: STS-106 was launched and three space travelers from the old mission (Malenchenko, Morukow , Lu ) were placed on STS-106. With these two flights, carried out one after the other at an interval of four months, the International Space Station (ISS) should be prepared more quickly for the reception of its first crew. During his second flight in September 2000, Malenchenko and Lu disembarked for six hours on the third day to lay cables and assemble an instrument boom.

ISS expedition 7

After Malenchenko and Lu had worked so effectively together on STS-106, those responsible decided to appoint the duo for a long-term deployment on the ISS. Since January 2001 they have been preparing the two space travelers for their flight as ISS Expedition 7 . With Soyuz TMA-2 they left for the ISS at the end of April 2003. Originally, another spaceman (first Sergei Moschtschenko , then Alexander Kaleri ) was to be part of the crew, and all three were to be brought to the ISS with STS-114 . When the space shuttle flights to the ISS were temporarily suspended after the Columbia disaster in February 2003, all subsequent permanent crews had been reduced to two people in order to save resources and were forced to carry out all feeder flights by Soyuz rocket . Commander Malenchenko and flight engineer Lu stayed on board the space station for six months and returned to Earth in October 2003 with the Soyuz spacecraft.

ISS expedition 16

Malenchenko was the flight engineer for ISS Expedition 16 , which was officially appointed in February 2007. The launch took place on October 10, 2007 with Soyuz TMA-11 . The landing took place on April 19, 2008 after 192 days, also with Soyuz TMA-11.

ISS expeditions 32 and 33

Malenchenko resigned from the cosmonaut corps on July 27, 2009, but returned on February 9, 2010. He was on the reserve team for Soyuz TMA-03M , which started in late 2011. On July 15, 2012, Malenchenko took off for the ISS as commander of the Soyuz TMA-05M spacecraft . When he transferred to the ISS on July 17, 2012, he was only the third astronaut and of these the first Russian to visit the station for the fourth time. He worked there as a flight engineer for ISS expeditions 32 and 33 . On November 19, 2012, he returned to Earth with Sunita Williams and Akihiko Hoshide . With over 641 days, he was in 7th place among the space travelers with the longest total duration in space.

ISS expedition 46 and 47

Malentschenko's sixth mission started on December 15, 2015. As commander of the Soyuz TMA-19M spacecraft , he paid his fifth visit to the ISS together with British ESA astronaut Timothy Peake and NASA astronaut Timothy Kopra . There he worked as a flight engineer for Expeditions 46 and 47 . He returned to Earth on June 18, 2016 with peake and copra. With this flight, Malenchenko is the second Russian cosmonaut after Sergei Krikaljow with six space flights and the first space traveler to fly to the ISS five times. Malenchenko had spent a total of 827 days in space on this flight. Only Gennadi Padalka with 878 days has more space experience than him.

Malenchenko left the cosmonaut corps on September 2, 2016.

Summary

No mission function Function on ward Flight date Flight duration
1 Soyuz TM-19 commander commander 1994 125d 22h 53m
2 STS-106 Mission specialist Flight engineer 2000 11d 19h 12m
3 Soyuz TMA-2 commander commander 2003 184d 22h 46m
4th Soyuz TMA-11 commander Flight engineer 2007/2008 191d 19h 07m
5 Soyuz TMA-05M commander Flight engineer 2012 126d 23h 13m
6th Soyuz TMA-19M commander Flight engineer 2015/2016 185d 22h 11min

Private

Malenchenko is a second marriage and has a daughter from this relationship. He has a son from his first marriage.

During his long stay on the ISS, Yuri Malenchenko married his then 26-year-old wife Yekaterina on August 10, 2003. He is the first person to get married in space. His wife was in a Johnson Space Center (JSC) auditorium in Houston during the wedding . A video link was set up between the ISS at an altitude of 380 kilometers and the JSC. Ed Lu acted as best man and played the keyboard at the Wedding March by Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy .

See also

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.warheroes.ru/hero/hero.asp?Hero_id=2280 Russian
  2. ↑ Astronauts and cosmonauts (sorted according to "total flight time"). spacefacts.de, November 11, 2013, accessed on November 11, 2013 .
  3. ↑ TASS: Yuri Malenchenko leaves team of Russian cosmonauts. September 16, 2016, accessed October 14, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Malenchenko, Yuri Ivanovich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Юрий Иванович Маленченко (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian cosmonaut of Ukrainian descent
DATE OF BIRTH December 22, 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Svitlovodsk , Kirovohrad Oblast, Ukrainian SSR, USSR