Yury Romanenko
- Soyuz 38 (1980 )
- Soyuz TM TM-2/Sojus -3 ( 1987)
Yuri Viktorovich Romanenko (Russian Юрий Викторович Романенко, scientific transliteration Yuri Romanenko Viktorovič; born August 1, 1944 in Koltubanowski, Orenburg Oblast, Russian SFSR ) is a pilot and former Soviet cosmonaut. As spacecraft commander, he used the call sign Таймыр ( " Taimyr ").
Life
After Yuri Romanenko 1966 visit to the Air Force Academy in Chernigov successfully graduated, he was selected by the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center on 27 April 1970 as a cosmonaut. His first was the pilot in 1977 as commander of the first crew of Salyut 6, he arrived at the Soyuz 26. On 20 December 1977, he took a spacewalk to remove foreign bodies from a docking port. Romanenko returned after 95 days stay with Soyuz 27 returns to Earth. In 1980, he flew as commander of the eighth visiting team of Salyut 6 with Soyuz 38 into space.
After Yuri Romanenko 1981 in Monino successfully completed his training as an engineer pilots at the Military Academy of the Air Force, he flew in 1987 as commander of the first crew on Soyuz TM-2 and Mir space station. During three extravehicular activities on April 12 June and 16 June 11, 1987, he worked on expanding the Mir by installing a solar array with two solar cells. Throughout his active career as an astronaut, the engineer pilot was substitute for several Soyuz missions. On November 11, 1988 Romanenko retired from the cosmonaut corps.
Later, Yuri Romanenko director of the Soviet Buran program. In 1995 he resigned, promoted to colonel in the meantime the Russian Air Force, from active military service to take up employment at SAO " Stilteks ".
Romanenko is married. One of his two children, born in 1971 cosmonaut Roman Romanenko Jurjewitsch.