Roman Romanenko

• Soyuz TMA -15 ( 2009)   ISS Expedition 20
• ISS Expedition 21

• ISS Expedition 34
• ISS Expedition 35

Roman Jurjewitsch Romanenko, Russian Роман Юрьевич Романенко ( born August 9, 1971 in Schtscholkowo, Russian SFSR ) is a Russian cosmonaut. He was commander of the spaceship Soyuz TMA -15 flight engineer on the International Space Station (ISS).

Studies and military

Romanenko studied from 1986 to 1988 at the Suvorov Military School in Leningrad, then at the pilot school Chernihiv, which he left in 1992 as a pilot - engineer. Subsequently, he served in the Russian Air Force and flew there Aero L -39 and Tupolev Tu- 134 and can demonstrate over 500 flight hours.

Cosmonauts activity

Romanenko was selected as a cosmonaut on 28 July 1997. He completed his basic training from December 1, 1999. As of January 2000, he was trained for a stay aboard the ISS. In February 2002 he was assigned to the backup crew of ISS Expedition 9, but after the disaster of the space shuttle Columbia in February 2003, the teams were reduced and Romanenko lost this allocation again.

In May 2006 he was nominated as a substitute for Oleg Kotov: Commander of Soyuz TMA -10 and Flight Engineer of ISS Expedition 15 The launch took place in April 2007 without any problems, Romanenko was not used.

From August 2007 Romanenko was assigned as commander of Soyuz TMA- 16, which should start in November 2009. In November 2008, he was preferred to a flight and was now commander of Soyuz TMA- 15, and Flight Engineer of ISS Expeditions 20 and 21

The launch took place on May 27, 2009. On board were the Belgian Frank De Winne and Canadian Robert Thirsk. With the docking of Soyuz TMA- 15 to the ISS, the ISS Expedition 20 Commander Gennady Padalka started under. On board the ISS were also the American Michael Barratt and Koichi Wakata of the Japanese. On 1 December 2009 Romanenko landed back on Earth.

On his second space flight launched Romanenko on 19 December, 2012. As commander of Soyuz TMA- 07M he flew with the Canadian Chris Hadfield and American Tom Marshburn to the ISS, where he spent six months as a flight engineer of ISS Expeditions 34 and 35 works. On April 19, 2013 Romanenko graduated together with his Russian colleague Pavel Vinogradov his first spacewalk. They exchanged several scientific experiments on the outer skin of the ISS and installed a new navigation aid. The return to Earth was made on 14 May 2013.

Private

Roman Romanenko is the son of cosmonaut Yuri Romanenko, who made ​​three spaceflights 1977-1987 and overall was with his missions to the Salyut 6 space station Mir and 430 days in space. This meant several years world record.

Roman Romanenko is married and has two children.