Romanenko

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Romanenko

Yuri Viktorovich Romanenko Status: Inactive. Trained as: Cosmonaut. Profession: Pilot. Sex: Male. Marital Status: Married. Children: Two. Birth Date: 01 August 1944. Birth City: Koltubanovskiy. Birth State: Orenburg. Birth Country: Russia. Nationality: Russian. Affiliation: Soviet Air Force. Group: 1970 Air Force Group. Detachment: TsPK-5. Date Selected: 27 April 1970. Date Departed: 11 October 1988. Number of Flights: 3. Total Time: 430.76 days. Number of EVAs: 4. Total EVA Time: 10.28 hours. Comments: US Air Force. Call sign: Taimyr (Taimyr - Russian peninsula).

Flight Log

Soyuz 16 - - 1974 Dec 2 - Assignment: Support Crew. Flight details: Soyuz 16.
ASTP Manned Test Flight. Check-out of the Soyuz space craft's on-board systems which had been modernized to meet the requirements of the 1975 joint flight in accordance with the programme of the Soviet-United States experiment; conduct of scientific and technical investigations. Landed 30 km NE Arkalyk. Recovered December 8, 1974 8:04 GMT.
Soyuz 19 (ASTP) - - 1975 Jul 15 - Assignment: Support Crew. Flight details: Soyuz 19 (ASTP).
Soyuz 19 initial orbital parameters were 220.8 by 185.07 kilometres, at the desired inclination of 51.80�, while the period of the first orbit was 88.6 minutes. On 17 July the two spacecraft docked. The crew members rotated between the two spacecraft and conducted various mainly ceremonial activities. Leonov was on the American side for 5 hours, 43 minutes, while Kubasov spent 4:57 in the command and docking modules.
After being docked for nearly 44 hours, Apollo and Soyuz parted for the first time and were station-keeping at a range of 50 meters. The Apollo crew placed its craft between Soyuz and the sun so that the diameter of the service module formed a disk which blocked out the sun. After this experiment Apollo moved towards Soyuz for the second docking.
Three hours later Apollo and Soyuz undocked for the second and final time. The spacecraft moved to a 40 m station-keeping distance so that an ultraviolet absorption experiment could be performed. With all the joint flight activities completed, the ships went on their separate ways. Soyuz 19 landed safely July 21, 1975 10:51 GMT, 87 km north-east of Arkalyk, 9. 6 km from its aim point.
Soyuz 25 - - 1977 Oct 9 - Assignment: Backup Crew. Flight details: Soyuz 25.
Manned two crew. Unsuccessful mission. Failed to dock with Salyut 6. Recovered October 11, 1977 3:25 GMT.
Soyuz 26 - - 1977 Dec 10 - Assignment: Prime Crew. Flight Time: 96.42 days. Flight details: Soyuz 26.
Manned two crew. Docked with Salyut 6. Carried Yuri Romanenko, Georgi Grechko to Salyut 6; returned crew of Soyuz 27 to Earth. Conduct of joint experiments with the Salyut-6 scientific station. Recovered January 16, 1978 11:25 GMT.
EVA Soyuz 26-1 - - 1977 Dec 19 - Assignment: EVA Crew. EVA Duration: 1.47 hours.
Inspected Salyut 6 docking port.
Soyuz 33 - - 1979 Apr 10 - Assignment: Backup Crew. Flight details: Soyuz 33.
Manned two crew. Flight under the Intercosmos programme of an international team consisting of N N Rukavishnikov (USSR) and G I Ivanov (Bulgaria). Unsuccessful mission. Failed to rendezvous with Salyut 6. Recovered April 12, 1979 16:35 GMT.
Soyuz 38 - - 1980 Sep 18 - Assignment: Prime Crew. Flight Time: 7.86 days. Flight details: Soyuz 38.
Manned two crew. Docked with Salyut 6. Transported to the Salyut-6 station the seventh international crew under the INTERCOSMOS programme, comprising Y V Romanenko (USSR) and A. Tomaio Mendez (Cuba), to conduct scientific research and experiments. Recovered September 26, 1980 15:54 GMT.
Soyuz 40 - - 1981 May 14 - Assignment: Backup Crew. Flight details: Soyuz 40.
Manned two crew. Docked with Salyut 6. Transported to the Salyut-6 orbital station the ninth international crew under the INTERCOSMOS programme, comprising L I Popov (USSR), and D. Prunariu (Romania), to conduct scientific research and experiments. Recovered May 22, 1981 13:58 GMT.
Soyuz T-7 - - 1982 Aug 19 - Assignment: Backup Crew. Flight details: Soyuz T-7.
Docked with Salyut 7. Carried Svetlana Savitskaya, Leonid Popov, Alexander Serebrov to Salyut 7 to conduct scientific and technical research and experiments; returned crew of Soyuz T-5 to Earth. Recovered December 10, 1982 19:03 GMT. Landed 118 km E Dzhezkazgan.
Soyuz TM-2 - - 1987 Feb 5 - Assignment: Prime Crew. Flight Time: 326.48 days. Flight details: Soyuz TM-2.
Mir Expedition EO-02. Docked with Mir 7 February 1987. Carried Yuri Romanenko, Aleksander Laveykin to Mir; returned Laveykin, crew of Soyuz TM-3 to Earth. Undocked from Mir 8:34 GMT 29 July. Orbital Module left in a 308 X 356 orbit. Recovered July 30, 1987 01:54 GMT.
EVA Soyuz TM-2-1 - - 1987 Apr 11 - Assignment: EVA Crew. EVA Duration: 3.67 hours.
Removed bag from docking unit that interfered with Kvant docking.
EVA Soyuz TM-2-2 - - 1987 Jun 12 - Assignment: EVA Crew. EVA Duration: 1.90 hours.
Began solar array installation.
EVA Soyuz TM-2-3 - - 1987 Jun 16 - Assignment: EVA Crew. EVA Duration: 3.25 hours.
Continued solar array installation.

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