Yuri Ivanovich Malenchenko
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Status Pilot cosmonaut of the Russian Federation, detachment of the FSBI CPC.
Date and place of birth: Born on December 22, 1961 in the city of Khrushchev (today Svetlovodsk), Kirovograd region, Ukrainian SSR.
Education and scientific titles: In 1978, he graduated (with a gold medal) from a secondary school in the village of Pavlovka in the Svetlovodsk district of the Kirovograd region.
In 1978, he entered the Kharkiv Institute of Radio Electronics, but after the first year he left the institute and transferred to study at the Kharkiv VVAUL.
In 1983, he graduated from the Kharkiv Higher Military Aviation School of Pilots named after twice Hero of the Soviet Union S. I. Gritsevets with a degree in Command and Tactical fighter Aviation with a diploma in military pilot engineer.
In 1990-1993, he studied (in absentia) at the Air Force Engineering Academy named after Zhukovsky at the Faculty of senior engineering staff in the specialty "Operational tactical Engineering, aircraft".
Military service: Since December 15, 1983, he served as a pilot (since November 30, 1984 a senior pilot, since November 28, 1986 an aviation flight commander) in the 684th Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment (iap) of the 119th Fighter Aviation Division (iad) of the Air Force of the Odessa Military District in the city of Tiraspol.
The total flight time at the time of enrollment in the cosmonaut squad was more than 830 hours, he had more than 150 parachute jumps on his account.
By order of the Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation of July 27, 2009, he was dismissed from the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation to the reserve.
Military rank: Lieutenant (1983.10.15); Senior Lieutenant (1985.11.05); Captain (1988.01.03); Major (1991.01.29); Lieutenant Colonel (1994.01.29); Colonel (1995.12.17, since 2009.07.27 in reserve).
Service in the cosmonaut squadron and the CPC: From August to December 1996, he was the coordinator of the CPC in the NASA.
On October 17, 2014, by order of the head of the Cosmonaut Training Center No. 527/k, he was appointed to the position of instructor of a test cosmonaut head of the 1st department (cosmonaut training, flight and space tests of manned spacecraft, scientific research and applied work in space and space flight safety assessment) The y.
A. Gagarin CPC.
In November 2015, he resigned from the post of head of the 1st department of the CPC, but remained as an instructor, a test cosmonaut of the 1st class.
On September 2, 2016, by order of the head of the CPC, a test cosmonaut instructor of the 1st class was dismissed from his post and appointed head of the 1st department of the CPC.
On October 21, 2016, by order of the head of the CPC, he was appointed first deputy head of the CPC and dismissed from the post of head of the 1st department of the CPC.
Space training: On March 26, 1987, by the decision of the Interdepartmental Commission for the Selection of Cosmonauts, he was recommended for enrollment in the cosmonaut squad of the Central Committee of the Air Force.
On October 6, 1987, by order of the Commander in Chief of the Air Force, he was enlisted in the cosmonaut squad of the Central Committee of the Air Force as a candidate for test cosmonauts.
From December 1987 to July 1989, he passed general space training (OKP) and upon its completion on July 21, he received the qualification of "Test Cosmonaut".
From September 1989 to December 1992, he was preparing for a flight to the Mir Space Station as part of a group of test cosmonauts.
From January to July 1993, he was trained as a reserve crew commander under the program of the 14th expedition to the Mir OK (EO 14), together with Gennady Strekalov.
From August to December 1993, he underwent direct training for the flight as the commander of the second (backup crew) under the program of the 15th expedition to the Mir OK (EO 15) together with Talgat Musabayev and German Arzamazov.
During the launch of the Soyuz TM 18 TC on January 8, 1994, he was the understudy of the ship's commander.
In January June 1994, he was trained for the flight as the commander of the main crew under the program of the 16th expedition to the Mir OK (EO 16), together with Talgat Musabayev.
The first flight
From July 1 to November 4, 1994, as the commander of the Soyuz TM 19 TC and the Mir OK under the EO 16 program, together with T. Musabayev.
Call sign: "Agat 1".
During the flight, he made two spacewalks:
09.09.1994 duration of 5 hours and 6 minutes.
13.09.1994 duration of 6 hours and 1 minute.
The flight duration was 125 days, 22 hours, 53 minutes, 36 seconds.
In 1997-1998, he was trained for a flight to the ISS as part of a group of astronauts.
In August 1998, he was assigned to the crew of the shuttle STS 96.
From October 1998 to September 2000, he was trained for a space flight on a shuttle at the Moscow Space Center.
Johnson (NASA) under the ISS assembly program (flight 2A, and then 2A/2B).
The second flight
From September 8 to 20, 2000, as a flight specialist in the crew of the shuttle Atlantis STS 106.
During the flight, he performed one spacewalk:
11.09.2000 duration of 6 hours and 14 minutes.
The flight duration was 11 days, 19 hours, 12 minutes, 14 seconds.
Since January 2001, he has been preparing for a space flight as the commander of the main crew of the 7th expedition to the ISS, together with Sergey Moshchenko (in October 2002 he was replaced by Alexander Kaleri) and Edward Lu (USA).
However, after the Columbia shuttle disaster in February 2003, the crews were reduced to 2 people.
Since February 25, 2003, he continued preparing for the flight to the ISS as the commander of the Soyuz TMA 2 spacecraft, together with Edward Lu.
The third flight
From April 26 to October 28, 2003, as the crew commander of the 7th main expedition of the ISS and the Soyuz TMA 2 spacecraft, together with Edward Lu.
Call sign: "Agat 1".
The flight duration was 184 days, 22 hours, 46 minutes, 28 seconds.
September 20, 2005 resolution, the DSWD was appointed flight engineer of the backup crew of 14 of the expedition to the ISS (ISS 14D).
At the meeting of the international Commission MCOP in the USA (30 November 2 December 2005) was approved as a flight engineer of the backup crew of 14 of the expedition to the ISS (ISS 14D - Peggy Whitson and Yuri Malenchenko).
In early May 2006, NASA officially announced the composition of the backup crew of the ISS 14D, already consisting of three people: Peggy Whitson, Yuri Malenchenko, Clayton Anderson.
In May 2006, by the decision of Roscosmos, CPC and RSC Energia, he was provisionally appointed flight engineer of the main crew of the 16th expedition to the ISS (ISS 16).
In August, by a joint decision of Roscosmos and NASA, he was provisionally approved as a flight engineer of the ISS 16 and commander of the Soyuz TMA 11 spacecraft, which is scheduled to launch in October 2007.
On February 13, 2007, by a decision of NASA, he was approved as a flight engineer of the ISS 16 expedition and commander of the Soyuz TMA 11 spacecraft.
On September 17-18, 2007, as a flight engineer of the main crew, he successfully completed comprehensive exam training.
On October 9, 2007, at a meeting of the State Commission at the Baikonur Cosmodrome, he was approved as a flight engineer of the ISS 16 expedition and commander of the Soyuz TMA 11 spacecraft.
The fourth flight
It was launched on October 10, 2007 at 17: 22 minutes 39 seconds Moscow time as the commander of the Soyuz TMA 11 spacecraft and the flight engineer of the ISS 16 expedition together with Peggy Whitson and a member of the 13th visiting expedition, Sheikh Muzafar Shukor.
On October 12, at 14:52 UTC (18:52 Moscow time), the Soyuz TMA 11 spacecraft docked to the International Space Station.
During the flight, he performed one spacewalk:
2007.11.09 duration of 6 hours and 55 minutes.
During the exit, the astronauts prepared a docking hermoadapter for installation on the Harmony module.
The Soyuz TMA 11 spacecraft was undocked from the ISS on April 19 at 04: 06: 27 UTC (09:06:27 Moscow time).
At 07:40:46 UTC (11:40:46 Moscow time), the ship's engines were switched on for braking.
On April 19, 2008, at approximately 12: 36 Moscow time (08: 36 UTC), the ship landed on the territory of Kazakhstan at a point with coordinates 50°31 's, 61°07' s.
Due to the fact that the ship broke into the trajectory of a ballistic descent, the short flight to the planned landing point was about 475 km (according to other data - about 420 km).
The flight duration was 191 days, 19 hours, 13 minutes, 21 seconds.
By the order of the Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation of July 27, 2009, he was dismissed from the Armed Forces and dismissed from the post of instructor of the test cosmonaut.
At the meeting of the MMC on November 19, 2009, he was admitted to special training.
In January 2010, reports appeared about his appointment to the backup crew of the 30th expedition to the ISS (ISS 30, the launch of the main crew on the Soyuz 29 spacecraft (Soyuz TMA No. 703) in November 2011) and about his appointment to the main crew of the ISS 32/33 expedition (launch on the Soyuz 31 spacecraft).
At the beginning of February 2010, at a meeting of the GMWC, he was recommended for enrollment in the FSBI CPC detachment.
In pursuance of this decision, by the order of the head of the FSBI CPC dated February 9, 2010, he was accepted as an instructor of a test cosmonaut of the FSBI CPC detachment.
At the meeting of the Interdepartmental Commission for the Selection of Cosmonauts and Their Appointment to the Manned Spacecraft and Stations on April 26, 2010, he was certified as a cosmonaut of the detachment of the Gagarin Research Institute of the Central Research Institute of the Gagarin Space Center.
On July 8, 2010, his appointment to the main crew of the ISS expedition 32/33 (launch on the Soyuz 31 spacecraft in April 2012) was officially confirmed by NASA in a press release 10-161.
On October 12, 2010, his appointment to the main crew of ISS 32/33 was confirmed by the Interdepartmental Commission for the Selection of Astronauts and Their Appointment to the crews of Manned spacecraft.
From August 2 to August 5, 2010, he took part in trainings on conducting visual instrumental observations from an airplane near the city of Severomorsk, Murmansk Region, during which the tasks of observing objects and solving environmental monitoring problems were worked out.
In January 2011, he took part in survival training in a forest near Moscow as a commander of a conditional crew together with Andrey Babkin and Ivan Wagner.
On November 29, 2011, at the Cosmonaut Training Center, together with Sunita Williams and Akihiko Hoshide, he passed a pre flight examination training on the TDK 7ST simulator No. 4 (Soyuz TMA simulator).
On November 30, 2011, the crew passed an examination training on the Russian segment of the ISS.
On December 1, 2011, he was approved by the Interdepartmental Commission as the commander of the backup crew of the Soyuz TMA 03M spacecraft.
On December 20, 2011, at a meeting of the State Commission for Conducting Flight Tests of Manned Space Complexes, chaired by the head of the Federal Space Agency, Vladimir Popovkin, he was approved as the commander of the backup crew of the Soyuz TMA 03M spacecraft.
On December 21, 2011, during the launch of the Soyuz TMA 03M TPC, he was the understudy of the crew commander.
On June 19, 2012, at the Cosmonaut Training Center, together with Sunita Williams and Akihiko Hoshide, he passed a pre flight examination training on the Russian segment of the ISS.
On June 20, 2012, the crew passed an examination training session on the TDK 7ST simulator (the Soyuz TMA simulator).
For both training sessions, the crew received a rating of "5.0".
On June 22, 2012, he was approved by the Interdepartmental Commission as the commander of the main crew of the Soyuz TMA 05M spacecraft.
On July 13, 2012, at a meeting of the State Commission at the Baikonur Cosmodrome, he was approved as the commander of the main crew.
The fifth flight
He started on July 15, 2012 at 02: 40: 03 UTC (06: 40:03 Moscow time) as the commander of the Soyuz TMA 05M spacecraft, flight engineer of the 32nd and 33rd main ISS expeditions.
July 17 at 04: 51 UTC (08: 51 Moscow time) The Soyuz TMA 05 spacecraft docked to the Rassvet Research Module (MIM 1) of the International Space Station.
During the flight, together with the crew commander of the Soyuz TMA 04M spacecraft, Gennady Padalka, made one spacewalk:
2012.08.20 duration .
The spacewalk began at 15: 37 UTC (19:37 Moscow time).
During the exit, the cosmonauts carried out the transfer of the GStM 2 cargo boom from the ISS Pier to the Zarya FGB hermoadapter using the GStM 1 cargo boom, manually launched the Sphere 53 satellite, installed 5 additional anti meteoroid panels on the Zvezda CM and 2 struts for the output device on the Pier, dismantled the container No. 1 of the Biorisk MSN equipment on the Pier.
At 21:28 UTC (August 21 at 01:28 Moscow time), the astronauts returned to the ISS.
On November 18, 2012, at 22:26:03 UTC (November 19 at 02:26:03 Moscow Time), the Soyuz TMA 05M spacecraft undocked from the International Space Station.
November 19, 2012 at 01: 53:20.1 UTC (05:53:20.1 Moscow time) the descent vehicle of the Soyuz TMA 05M spacecraft landed 91 kilometers northeast of the city of Arkalyk, the Republic of Kazakhstan.
The duration of the flight was .
In April 2014, information appeared about his possible appointment to the main crew of the ISS 46/47 instead of Sergei Zaletin, who was not allowed to special training.
On December 16, 2014, at a meeting of the Interdepartmental Commission for the Selection of Astronauts and Their Appointment to the crews of Manned Spacecraft and stations, his appointment to the backup crew of the ISS 44/45 long term expedition and the main crew of the ISS 46/47 long term expedition was approved.
On March 20, 2015, it was reported that Anatoly Ivanishin will replace him in the main crew of the Soyuz TMA 19M spacecraft (ISS expedition 46/47).
At the meeting of the Main Medical Commission (MMC) held on April 16, 2015 at the Cosmonaut Training Center, which analyzed the data of medical examinations of Russian members of the main and backup e the crew of the 44/45 th long term expedition to the ISS, was declared fit for space flight for health reasons.
On May 6, 2015, he began undergoing comprehensive training as the commander of the backup crew of the ship together with flight engineers Timothy Kopra and Timothy Peak.
On this day, an examination training session was held on the simulator of the Soyuz TMA M TPC.
On May 7, the crew passed a test training session on the Russian segment of the ISS.
On July 8, 2015, at a meeting of the Interdepartmental Commission held at the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center, he was approved as the commander of the backup crew of the Soyuz TMA 17M spacecraft.
On July 21, 2015, at a meeting of the State Commission at the Baikonur Cosmodrome, he was approved as the commander of the backup crew of the Soyuz TMA 17M spacecraft.
On July 23, 2015, during the launch of the Soyuz TMA 17M TPC, he was the understudy of the crew commander.
On November 3, 2015, at a meeting of the State Medical Commission (MMC) at the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center (CPC), he was declared fit for space flight for health reasons.
On November 19, 2015, she began undergoing comprehensive training as the commander of the main crew of the ship together with flight engineers Timothy Kopra and Timothy Peak.
On this day, an examination training session was held on the Russian segment of the ISS, according to the results of which the crew showed a good result.
On November 20, the crew passed a test training session on the Soyuz TMA M simulator.
November 23, 2015.
At the meeting of the Interdepartmental Commission held at the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center, he was approved as the commander of the main crew of the Soyuz TMA 19M spacecraft.
December 14, 2015.
At the meeting of the State Commission for Flight Tests of Manned Space Complexes, headed by the head of Roscosmos Igor Komarov, held at the 17th site of the Baikonur Cosmodrome in the Cosmonaut complex, he was approved as the commander of the main crew of the Soyuz TMA 19M spacecraft.
The sixth flight
He launched on December 15, 2015 as the commander of the Soyuz TMA 19M spacecraft together with flight engineers Timothy Kopra and Timothy Peak.
The spacecraft docked to the small research module "Dawn" of the International Space Station at 17:33 UTC (20:33 Moscow time) in manual mode.
During the flight, he made one spacewalk:
2016.02.03 duration .
The exit under the VCD 42 program began at 12: 56 UTC (15:56 Moscow time) after the opening of the exit hatch from the Pier.
During the exit, cosmonauts Yuri Malenchenko (EV1, Orlan MK spacesuit No. 4) and Sergey Volkov (EV2, Orlan MK spacesuit No. 6) performed the "Test" experiment, dismantled the monoblock responsible for exposing samples of organic and biological materials in open space (experiment "Expose R"), and installed the sample exposure unit No. 2 of the Endurance experiment on the Poisk module (MIM 2), and on the output device of the docking compartment "Pier" we performed the operations in accordance with the program of work on the "Restoration" experiment.
Soft handrails were installed on the conical part of the instrument sealed compartment No. 3 of the Zarya FGB.
At 17:39 UTC (20:39 Moscow time), the astronauts returned to the ISS.
On June 18, 2016, at 02: 36 UTC (05:36 Moscow Time), the operation to close the transition hatches between the Soyuz TMA 19M spacecraft and the International Space Station was completed.
The undocking of the Soyuz TMA 19M TPC took place normally at 05: 52 UTC (08:52 Moscow time).
At 09: 14: 39 UTC (12: 14: 39 Moscow time) the spacecraft's descent vehicle landed in the Kazakh steppe 150 km east of the city of Dzhezkazgan.
The duration of the flight was
He left the cosmonaut squad on September 2, 2016.
Honorary titles: Hero of the Russian Federation (Decree of the President of the Russian Federation No. 2107 of 24.11.1994), Pilot Cosmonaut of the Russian Federation (Decree of the President of the Russian Federation No. 2107 of 24.11.1994), People's Hero of Kazakhstan Halyk Kaharmany (1995).
Pilot cosmonaut of Kazakhstan (1995).
Class: Military pilot of the 3rd class, Cosmonaut of the 2nd class.
The instructor is a test cosmonaut.
State awards: Awarded the Gold Star Medal of the Hero of the Russian Federation (Decree of the President of the Russian Federation No. 2107 of 24.11.1994), the Order "For Services to the Fatherland" of the III degree (Decree of the President of the Russian Federation No. 357 of 22 May 2014), the Order "For Services to the Fatherland" of the IV degree (2008), the Order "For Military Merit" (2000), the medal "For Distinction in military Service" of the III degree, "For Distinction in military Service" of the II degree (1996.04.04), "For Distinction in military Service" of the I degree (2000), the medal "For Impeccable Service" of the III degree (1990), the medal "For Military Valor" of the I degree (2000), the medal "70 years of the Armed Forces of the USSR" (1988).
Awards of foreign countries: Awarded the Medal of the People's Hero of the Republic of Kazakhstan (1995), the NASA Space Flight Medal
Marital status Father Malenchenko Ivan Karpovich, born in 1930 Mother Malenchenko (Ananyeva) Nina Pavlovna, born in 1937 Brother Malenchenko Sergey Ivanovich.
Wife (ex wife) - Elena Leonidovna Malenchenko.
Son (from the first marriage) - Dmitry Yuryevich Malenchenko, born in 1984, his wife Ekaterina Dmitrieva, born in 1977, (an American of Russian origin).
The wedding ceremony took place on August 10, 2003, when Yuri was in orbit, and Ekaterina was in Houston, Texas (in this state, the wedding can be held in the absence of one of the newlyweds).
On behalf of the groom, the marriage documents were signed by an American lawyer.
Daughter Camilla (born in 2006).
Hobbies Sports games, music, hunting.
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