Yury Romanenko
Yuri Viktorovich Romanenko is a former Soviet cosmonaut, twice Hero of the Soviet Union. Over his career, Yuri Romanenko spent a total of 430 days 20 hours 21 minutes 30 seconds in space and 18 hours in space walks. In 1987 he was a resident of the Mir space station, launching on Soyuz TM-2 and landing aboard Soyuz TM-3. He remained on Mir for 326 days; that was the longest stay in space at that time. His son, Roman Romanenko is also a cosmonaut, and has become the third second-generation space traveler on Soyuz TMA-15 in May 2009.
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- Country
- 🇸🇺 Soviet Union / 🇷🇺 Russia
- Status
- Active
- Life
- 1944
Spaceflights
- Oct 9, 1977 Soyuz 25
- Dec 10, 1977 Salyut 6 EO-1
- Dec 10, 1977 Soyuz 26
- Jan 10, 1978 Soyuz 27
- Apr 10, 1979 Soyuz 33
- Sep 18, 1980 Soyuz 38
- May 14, 1981 Soyuz 40
- Feb 5, 1987 Soyuz TM-2
- Jul 22, 1987 Soyuz TM-3