- Yuri Malenchenko
Infobox Astronaut
name =Yuri Ivanovich Malenchenko
type =Cosmonaut
status =Active
nationality =Russia n
date_birth =birth date and age|1961|12|22|mf=y
date_death =
place_birth =Svitlovodsk , Ukrainian SSR, USSR
place_death =
occupation =Fighter pilot
rank =Colonel ,Russian Air Force
selection =1987
time = 514d 11h 59m
mission =Soyuz TM-19 ,STS-106 ,Soyuz TMA-2 ,Expedition 7
Soyuz TMA-11 ,Expedition 16
insignia =|Yuri Ivanovich Malenchenko ( _ru. Юрий Иванович Маленченко ; born December 22, 1961) is a
Russia ncosmonaut of Ukrainian ancestry.Early life
Malenchenko was born in
Svitlovodsk ,Kirovohrad Oblast of the former Ukrainian SSR.Cite web|url=http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/malenchenko.html|title=Yuri Ivanovich Malenchenko |accessyear=2007|accessmonthday=October 10|publisher=National Aeronautic and Space Administration|year=2007|author=NASA ]Malenchenko graduated from the Kharkov Military Aviation School in 1983, and attended the Zhukovsky Air Force Engineering Academy, graduating in 1993.
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 overNew Zealand , on theInternational Space Station .paceflight experience
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Soyuz TM-19 : MIR 16 Commander, July 01, 1994 - November 4, 1994 - 125d 22h 53m cite web |url= http://www.spacefacts.de/bios/cosmonauts/english/malenchenko_yuri.htm|title= Cosmonaut biography: Yuri Malenchenko|accessdate= 2008-03-29|publisher=SPACEFACTS]
#STS-106 : Mission Specialist August 08, 2000 - August 20, 2000 - 11d 19h 12m
#Soyuz TMA-2 : ISSExpedition 7 Commander, April 26, 2003 - October 28, 2003 - 184d 22h 46m
#Soyuz TMA-11 : ISSExpedition 16 Flight Engineer 1 - October 10, 2007 - April 19, 2008 - 191d 19h 8mReferences
External links
* [http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/malenchenko.html NASA biography]
* [http://www.spacefacts.de/bios/cosmonauts/english/malenchenko_yuri.htm Spacefacts biography of Yuri Malenchenko]
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VkHoaxzd0ew Malenchenko drinking Ukrainian vodka in space]
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