Roman Yurievich Romanenko is a Russian retired cosmonaut at the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center.
10 Facts About Roman Romanenko
Roman Romanenko is a politician, sitting in the State Duma since 2021 representing the Chertanovo constituency.
Roman Romanenko's hobbies include underwater hunting, tennis, car repairs, tourism, yachting, volleyball and music.
On 6 May 2010 Romanenko was awarded the Hero of the Russian Federation medal by the decree of the Russian President Dmitry Medvedev.
Roman Romanenko was awarded the honorary title Pilot-Cosmonaut of the Russian Federation.
Roman Romanenko served as the backup to Oleg Kotov as the Commander of Soyuz TMA-10 and Fyodor Yurchikhin as Commander of Expedition 15.
Roman Romanenko was part of the Expedition 20 and Expedition 21 crews and was the third second-generation space traveller after Sergey Volkov and Richard Garriott.
On 19 December 2012, Romanenko was launched to space on Soyuz TMA-07M along with Chris Hadfield and Thomas Marshburn.
Roman Romanenko was a part of the crews of Expedition 34 and Expedition 35 aboard the ISS.
On 19 April 2013 Romanenko completed his first spacewalk with fellow cosmonaut Pavel Vinogradov, a 6-hour 38 minute EVA to conduct repairs to the ISS.