AFANASIYEV Viktor Mikhailovich
Personal data
| Date of birth: | 31 December 1948 |
| Place of birth: | Bryansk / Bryansk Oblast / Russische SFSR |
| Family status: | married |
| Children: | 2 |
| Selection: | 2 September 1985 |
| Function: | Commandant |
| Status: | separated on 17 April 2006 |
Space flights
| No | Mission | Function | Duration (DD.MM.YYYY) |
Duration of flight |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Soyuz TM-11 | Commandant | 02.12.1990 – 26.05.1991 | 175d 01h 50m |
| 2 | Soyuz TM-18 | Commandant | 08.01.1994 – 09.07.1994 | 182d 00h 27m |
| 3 | Soyuz TM-29 | Commandant | 20.02.1999 – 28.08.1999 | 188d 20h 17m |
| 4 | Soyuz TM-33 | Commandant | 21.10.2001 – 31.10.2001 | 9d 19h 59m |
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Colonel of the Russian air force; completion of the advanced military pilots school (WWAUL) of the air force (WWS) „Alexander F. Mjasnikow“ in Katschinsk, 1970 and the branch „Wsljot“ of the aerospace institute of Moscow MAI „Grigori (Sergo) K. Ordshonikidse“ in Achtubinsk, Oblast Astrachan, Russian SFSR, with a degree as an engineer, 1980; test pilot; chosen on 2 Sept. 1985 from the GKNII for Buran flights, assumed in 1988 in ZPK-9; OKP (Cosmonaut Basic Training): 11/95 – 12/87; Hobbies: driving cars, football, collecting insignia and pins; leave from active military service and from the cosmonaut team due to age reasons.
KONDAKOVA Yelena Vladimirovna
Personal data
| Date of birth: | 30 March 1957 |
| Place of birth: | Rabotschi / Oblast Moscow / Russian SSR |
| Family status: | married |
| Children: | 1 |
| Selection: | 25 January 1989 |
| Function: | Board engineer |
| Status: | separated on 30 December 1999 |
Space flights
| No | Mission | Function | Duration (DD.MM.YYYY) |
Duration of flight |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Soyuz TM-20 | Board engineer | 03.10.1994 – 22.03.1995 | 169d 05h 21m |
| 2 | STS-84 | MSP | 15.05.1997 – 24.05.1997 | 9d 05h 20m |
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Graduate of the Technical Bauman College in Moscow, 1980, mechanical engineer; married since 1985 with the cosmonaut Waleri Rjumin; chosen on 25 Jan. 1989 by GMWK as a cosmonaut (NPOE-9); OKP (Cosmonaut Basic Training): 1 Oct. 1990 – 6 Mar. 1992; Hobbies: theatre, fishing, reading, making holidays, tennis, cars; part of the Russian Parliament since 2000.
MALENCHENKO Yuri Ivanovich
Personal data
| Date of birth: | 22 December 1961 |
| Place of birth: | Svetlovodsk / Kirovograd Oblast / Ukrainian SSR |
| Family status: | married |
| Children: | 1 |
| Selection: | 26 March 1987 |
| Function: | Commandant |
| Status: | separated |
Space flights
| No | Mission | Function | Duration (DD.MM.YYYY) |
Duration of flight |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Soyuz TM-19 | Commandant | 01.07.1994 – 04.11.1994 | 125d 22h 53m |
| 2 | STS-106 | MSP | 08.09.2000 – 20.09.2000 | 11d 19h 12m |
| 3 | Soyuz TMA-2 | Commandant | 26.04.2003 – 28.10.2003 | 184d 22h 46m |
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Graduate of the advanced military flying school in Tschugujew, Oblast Charkov, 1983; graduate of the Schukowski Air-force Engineer Academy, 1993; Colonel of the Russian air force; military pilot, chosen as a cosmonaut on 26 March 1987 by GMWK (ZPK-8); OKP (Cosmonaut Basic Training): 12/78 – 6/89; Hobbies: sport, games, music, hunting.
MUSABAYEV Talgat Amangeldyevich
Personal data
| Date of birth: | 7 January 1951 |
| Place of birth: | Kargaly / Oblast Dshampul / Kazakh SSR |
| Family status: | married |
| Children: | 2 |
| Selection: | 11 May 1990 |
| Function: | Board engineer |
| Status: | separated on 27 November 2003 |
Space flights
| No | Mission | Function | Duration (DD.MM.YYYY) |
Duration of flight |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Soyuz TM-19 | Board engineer | 01.07.1994 – 04.11.1994 | 125d 22h 53m |
| 2 | Soyuz TM-27 | Commandant | 29.01.1998 – 25.08.1998 | 207d 12h 51m |
| 3 | Soyuz TM-32 | Commandant | 28.04.2001 – 06.05.2001 | 7d 22h 04m |
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Graduated the higher aeronautical engineer military school (WIAWU) „Leninscher Komsomol“ in Riga, 1974; certificat of the higher flying school in Aktjubinsk as graduated engineer, 1983; received 2000 a graduate as candidate from the technical science; decorated stunt pilot; aeronautical engineer; on 11 May 1990 from the GMWK selected as cosmonaut; 1991 nomination as major and changing to the airforce cosmonaut group (ZPK-11); OKP (cosmonaut basic training): 1 Oct. 1990 – 13 Sept. 1991; double for the Soyuz TM-13 mission; after the separate he became assistant chairman of the Shukowski-Academy and general major (September 2003).
Dr. POLJAKOV Valeri Vladimirovich
Personal data
| Date of birth: | 27 April 1942 |
| Place of birth: | Tula / Oblast Tula / Russian SSR |
| Family status: | married |
| Children: | 1 |
| Selection: | 22 March 1972 |
| Function: | Board doctor |
| Status: | separated on 1 June 1995 |
Space flights
| No | Mission | Function | Duration (DD.MM.YYYY) |
Duration of flight |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Soyuz TM-6 | Research doctor | 29.08.1988 – 27.04.1989 | 240d 22h 34m |
| 2 | Soyuz TM-18 | Doctor-cosmonaut | 08.01.1994 – 22.03.1995 | 437d 17h 58m |
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Completion of the 1st Moscow Medical Institute (1. MMI) „Ivan M. Setschenow“ in Moscow, 1965; received the title of a candidate of the medical scientists, 1976; specialist for space-flight medicine in the Institute for Bio-medical Problems (IMBP) in Moscow; chosen as a cosmonaut on 22 March 1972 by GMWK (IMBP-1); OKP (Cosmonaut Basic Training): 10/72 – 12/79; retired on 1 June 1995; from 1989 to1997 as associate director of the IMBP; concluded his doctor’s degree of the medical scientists in 1997 and became a professor of the International Academy for Astronautics.
USACHEV Yuri Vladimirovich
Personal data
| Date of birth: | 9 October 1957 |
| Place of birth: | Donezk / Oblast Rostow / Russian SSR |
| Family status: | married |
| Children: | 1 |
| Selection: | 25 January 1989 |
| Function: | Board engineer |
| Status: | separated on 5 April 2004 |
Space flights
| No | Mission | Function | Duration (DD.MM.YYYY) |
Duration of flight |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Soyuz TM-18 | Board engineer | 08.01.1994 – 09.07.1994 | 182d 00h 27m |
| 2 | Soyuz TM-23 | Board engineer | 21.02.1996 – 02.09.1996 | 193d 19h 07m |
| 3 | STS-101 | MSP | 19.05.2000 – 29.05.2000 | 9d 20h 10m |
| 4 | STS-102 | Commandant ISS | 08.03.2001 – 22.08.2001 | 167d 06h 41m |
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Graduate of the Moscow Aerospace Institute MAI, 1985, Engineer, Member of the NPO Energija; chosen as a cosmonaut on 25 Jan. 1989 by GMWK (NPOE-9); OKP (Cosmonaut Basic Training): 4/89 – 1/91; Hobbies: sport, hiking, video-production, still works in the 291 detachment of the RKKE.
VIKTORENKO Aleksandr Stepanovich
Personal data
| Date of birth: | 29 March 1947 |
| Place of birth: | Olginka / Oblast Sewerno-Kazakhstan / Kazakh SSR |
| Family status: | married |
| Children: | 2 |
| Selection: | 23 May 1978 |
| Function: | Commandant |
| Status: | separated on 30 May 1997 |
Space flights
| No | Mission | Function | Duration (DD.MM.YYYY) |
Duration of flight |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Soyuz TM-3 | Commandant | 22.07.1987 – 30.07.1987 | 7d 23h 04m |
| 2 | Soyuz TM-8 | Commandant | 05.09.1989 – 19.02.1990 | 166d 06h 58m |
| 3 | Soyuz TM-14 | Commandant | 17.03.1992 – 10.08.1992 | 145d 14d 10m |
| 4 | Soyuz TM-20 | Commandant | 03.10.1994 – 22.03.1995 | 169d 05h 21m |
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Officer from the airforce; graduated on the military flight school Orenburg; test pilot; on 23 May 1978 selected as cosmonaut (ZPK-7); OKP (cosmonaut basic training): 5/78 – 24 Feb. 1982; 1979 at a trainings accident disabled; hobbies: accordion play, cars, hunt; separated on 30 May 1997; working in the Gagarin training center as civil coach.