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Aug 01, 1944 79 years old
Soviet cosmonaut
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About Yury Romanenko
- Yury Viktorovich Romanenko (Russian: ?´??? ??´???????? ??????´???, Jurij Viktorovic Romanenko; born August 1, 1944) is a former Soviet cosmonaut, twice Hero of the Soviet Union (March 16, 1978 and September 26, 1980).
- Over his career, Yury Romanenko spent a total of 430 days 20 hours 21 minutes 30 seconds in space and 18 hours in space walks.
- In 1987 he was a resident of the Mir space station, launching on Soyuz TM-2 and landing aboard Soyuz TM-3.
- He remained on Mir for 326 days that was the longest stay in space at that time.
- His son, Roman Romanenko is also a cosmonaut, and has become the third second-generation space traveler on Soyuz TMA-15 in May 2009.
