Russian cosmonaut (born 1961)
Yuri Ivanovich Malenchenko
(
Russian
:
Юрий Иванович Маленченко
; born December 22, 1961) is a retired Russian
cosmonaut
. Malenchenko became the first person to marry in space, on 10 August 2003, when he married Ekaterina Dmitrieva, who was in
Texas
, while he was 240 miles (390 km) over New Zealand, on the
International Space Station
.
[2]
As of December 2023, Malenchenko ranks
third for career time in space
due to his time on both
Mir
and the
International Space Station
(ISS).
[3]
He is a former commander of the
International Space Station
.
Personal life
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Malenchenko was born in
Khrushchev
,
Kirovohrad Oblast
,
Ukrainian SSR
.
[4]
He and his wife Ekaterina Dmitrieva have one child.
Education
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Malenchenko graduated from the
Kharkiv
Military Aviation School in 1983, and attended the Zhukovsky Air Force Engineering Academy, graduating in 1993.
[4]
Awards
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Malenchenko was awarded:
Cosmonaut career
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After graduation from the Military Aviation School, he served as a pilot, senior pilot and multi-ship flight lead from 1983 till 1987 in the Odessa Region. In 1987 he was selected as a cosmonaut, and arrived at the
Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center
. From December 1987 to June 1989 Malenchenko underwent a course of general space training. After completion of the course, he was qualified as a test-cosmonaut. Between September 1989 to December 1993 he was taking advanced training courses in preparation for spaceflight. In January?July, 1993 Malenchenko trained as commander of the Mir-14 reserve crew. He completed training as a backup commander of the Mir-15 crew from July 1993 to January 1994. From February to June 1994 Malenchenko trained for the Mir-16 mission.
Spaceflight experience
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Soyuz TM-19
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On July 1, 1994, Malenchenko and
Talgat Musabayev
lifted off to space on board the
Soyuz TM-19
spacecraft with Malenchenko in command of the Soyuz. Following a two-day solo flight the Soyuz docked with Mir on July 3, 1994. Main goal of the mission was the partly exchange of the resident crew. Malenchenko, Musabayev and cosmonaut
Valeri Polyakov
became the 16th resident Mir crew, with Malenchenko in command. The crew conducted medical experiments and experiments in materials science. There were many problems during the mission, which finally ended with the first successful manual docking of a
Progress
supply ship at Mir by Malenchenko. On November 4, 1994, Malenchenko, Musabayev and
Ulf Merbold
returned to Earth aboard their Soyuz capsule after landing 88 km northeast of
Arkalyk
. Aboard Soyuz TM-19 and Mir complex Malenchenko spent 125 days, 22 hours, 53 minutes in space.
[6]
STS-106
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Malenchenko served as a mission specialist for STS-106.
[7]
Space Shuttle
Atlantis
lifted off from the
Kennedy Space Center
(KSC) on September 8, 2000. On flight day two,
Atlantis
completed a successful rendezvous and docking with the ISS. The objectives of the mission were to bring supplies to the International Space Station (ISS) and to prepare the
Zvezda
Service Module for the arrival of
the first resident crew
. During the 12-day mission, the shuttle crew spent a week inside the ISS unloading supplies from both a double
SPACEHAB
cargo module in the rear of
Atlantis
's
cargo bay and from
Progress M1-3
which was docked to the aft docking port of
Zvezda
. After circling the globe for 186 orbits,
Atlantis
landed on September 19, 2000, at Runway 15, KSC. The mission lasted 11 days, 19 hours and 12 minutes.
Expedition 7
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Malenchenko with astronaut
Edward Lu
lifted on board the
Soyuz TMA-2
spacecraft from the
Baikonur Cosmodrome
on April 26, 2003, to the ISS. The spacecraft docked with the ISS on April 28, 2003. Malenchenko served as the Soyuz commander, and after docking with the ISS they exchanged with the resident crew on board ISS and became the seventh station crew,
Expedition 7
.
[8]
He was the commander of the Expedition 7, and during his stay on the station, Malenchenko became the first person to get married in space. Soyuz TMA-2 returned to Earth on October 28, with both the Expedition 7 crew as well as
Pedro Duque
on board. The spacecraft landed at 02:40 UTC near Arkalyk. Aboard Soyuz TMA-2 and the ISS, Malenchenko spent 184 days, 22 hours and 46 minutes in space.
Expedition 16
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Malenchenko with NASA astronaut
Peggy Whitson
and Malaysian spaceflight participant
Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor
blasted off to space on October 10, 2007, on
Soyuz TMA-11
from the Baikonour Cosmodrome. He served as the Soyuz commander. The Soyuz spacecraft docked with the ISS after 2 days of autonomous flight on October 12, 2007.
[9]
Malenchenko joined the ISS
Expedition 16
crew as flight engineer 1. The Soyuz capsule landed in
Kazakhstan
on April 19, 2008, bringing back Malenchenko, Whitson and South Korean spaceflight participant
Yi So-Yeon
. Similar to
Soyuz TMA-1
and
Soyuz TMA-10
, Soyuz TMA-11 performed a
ballistic reentry
, a reentry steeper than a normal reentry, due to a malfunction and landed 475 km from intended landing point, north of Arkalyk.
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Although the crew were recovered with no injuries, the spacecraft's hatch and antenna suffered burn damage during the unusual reentry.
He accumulated 191 days, 19 hours and 8 minutes time in space during Soyuz TMA-11 and ISS Expedition 16 missions.
Expedition 32/33
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Spacewalks
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Malenchenko conducted his first and second career spacewalks during the Mir-16 mission. He and Musabayev performed two spacewalks on September 9, 1994 (5h 06m) and September 14, 1994, in which the station's external insulation was repaired. The first and second spacewalks lasted 5 hours and 6 minutes, and 6 hours and 1 minute respectively.
Malenchenko performed his third career spacewalk during the STS-106 mission to the ISS.
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On flight day three, Malenchenko and NASA astronaut Ed Lu conducted a 6-hour and 14 minute space walk. The spacewalk started at 04:55 GMT on September 11 when the two spacewalkers exited the shuttle's airlock.
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The spacewalk's objective focused on routing and connecting nine power, data and communications cables between the
Zvezda
module and the
Zarya
module, as well as installing the six-foot-long magnetometer to the ISS to serve as a compass showing the space station in respect to the Earth. This spacewalk marked the sixth spacewalk in support of the ISS assembly and the 50th spacewalk in space shuttle history.
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On November 9, 2007, Malenchenko performed his fourth career spacewalk.
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He and Expedition 16 commander, Peggy Whitson, in US
EMUs
ventured into space from the station's
Quest
airlock at 09:54 UTC.
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Malenchenko's suit was all white, and the purpose of the spacewalk was to prepare for the relocation of
Pressurized Mating Adapter
(PMA-2) and the subsequent move of the
Harmony
node to its permanent location. As the first task, the two spacewalkers disconnected the
Station to Shuttle Power Transfer System
(SSPTS) cables between the
Destiny
laboratory and PMA-2. Next they disconnected eight other cables between PMA-2 and the
Destiny
. Malenchenko removed and replaced a failed electrical circuit box and together with Whitson removed the active
Common Berthing Mechanism
cover that was located at the outboard end of
Harmony
. Next, Malenchenko moved back behind the Z1 truss to reconfigure a power system, removing an electrical jumper. The spacewalk ended at 16.49 UTC when the two spacewalkers returned to the ISS. The spacewalk lasted 6 hours and 55 minutes.
On 20 August 2012, Malenchenko together with cosmonaut
Gennady Padalka
participated in his fifth career spacewalk.
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Tasks assigned to the two cosmonauts included hardware relocations, installations, retrievals, and deployments. For the spacewalk, Malenchenko donned an Orlan spacesuit with the blue stripe. The duration of the spacewalk was 5 hours and 51 minutes. The spacewalk was delayed for about an hour due to a small leak between Space Station modules. The spacewalk started from the Pirs Docking Compartment Module at 15:37 GMT. The first task for Padalka and Malenchenko was to relocate the Strela-2 boom from the Pirs module to the forward end of the Zarya module. The relocation was needed since Pirs module will be detached from the Space Station in the future for the arrival of the new Multi-purpose Laboratory Module (MLM)
Nauka
. The next task completed by Padalka and Malenchenko was to deploy a 21-inch diameter spherical satellite. The two cosmonauts also retrieved five debris shields from the Pirs Module, prior to installing them on the Zvezda Module. They also completed several get-ahead tasks (since they both opted not to take rests during the night passes) as the duo were about an hour ahead of the timeline. They retrieved an external experiment called Biorisk from the Pirs Module for return to Earth, and for added stability installed two structural support struts between the Pirs Module and the EVA ladder. Padalka and Malenchenko then both ingress the Pirs Module, prior to closing the hatch and beginning the re-pressurisation procedure, to end a highly successful spacewalk.
Expedition 46/47
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Malenchenko arrived at the ISS
Soyuz TMA-19M
to join the Expedition 46 crew. He performed a manual docking due to a malfunction in the automatic docking system.
Progress MS-1
was then scheduled for launch to the ISS, atop a
Soyuz 2.1a
, on 21 December. Planned for a launch date of no earlier than 7 February 2016,
[17]
the
SpaceX CRS-8
mission provided the ISS with the
Bigelow Expandable Activity Module
. Two
EVAs
were performed during Expedition 46.
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He returned to Earth on
Soyuz TMA-19M
, and landed on 18 June 2016 09:15 UTC,
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after spending additional 186 days in space.
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See also
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References
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This article incorporates
public domain material
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