1. Yuri Ivanovich Malenchenko is a retired Russian cosmonaut.
22 Facts About Yuri Malenchenko
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Yuri Malenchenko is a former commander of the International Space Station.
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Yuri Malenchenko graduated from the Kharkiv Military Aviation School in 1983, and attended the Zhukovsky Air Force Engineering Academy, graduating in 1993.
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From December 1987 to June 1989 Yuri Malenchenko underwent a course of general space training.
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Yuri Malenchenko completed training as a backup commander of the Mir-15 crew from July 1993 to January 1994.
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From February to June 1994 Yuri Malenchenko trained for the Mir-16 mission.
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Aboard Soyuz TM-19 and Mir complex Yuri Malenchenko spent 125 days, 22 hours, 53 minutes in space.
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Yuri Malenchenko served as the Soyuz commander, and after docking with the ISS they exchanged with the resident crew on board ISS and became the seventh station crew, Expedition 7.
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Yuri Malenchenko was the commander of the Expedition 7, and during his stay on the station, Malenchenko became the first person to get married in space.
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Aboard Soyuz TMA-2 and the ISS, Yuri Malenchenko spent 184 days, 22 hours and 46 minutes in space.
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Yuri Malenchenko joined the ISS Expedition 16 crew as flight engineer 1.
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Yuri Malenchenko accumulated 191 days, 19 hours and 8 minutes time in space during Soyuz TMA-11 and ISS Expedition 16 missions.
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Yuri Malenchenko conducted his first and second career spacewalks during the Mir-16 mission.
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Yuri Malenchenko performed his third career spacewalk during the STS-106 mission to the ISS.
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On November 9,2007, Yuri Malenchenko performed his fourth career spacewalk.
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Yuri Malenchenko's suit was all white, and the purpose of the spacewalk was to prepare for the relocation of Pressurized Mating Adapter and the subsequent move of the Harmony node to its permanent location.
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Yuri Malenchenko removed and replaced a failed electrical circuit box and together with Whitson removed the active Common Berthing Mechanism cover that was located at the outboard end of Harmony.
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The first task for Padalka and Yuri Malenchenko was to relocate the Strela-2 boom from the Pirs module to the forward end of the Zarya module.
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The next task completed by Padalka and Yuri Malenchenko was to deploy a 21-inch diameter spherical satellite.
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Yuri Malenchenko arrived at the ISS Soyuz TMA-19M to join the Expedition 46 crew.
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Yuri Malenchenko performed a manual docking due to a malfunction in the automatic docking system.
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Yuri Malenchenko returned to Earth on Soyuz TMA-19M, and landed on 18 June 2016 09:15 UTC, after spending additional 186 days in space.