Yuri Malenchenko | |
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Born | Yuri Ivanovich Malenchenko December 22, 1961 Khrushchev, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union (now Svitlovodsk, Ukraine) |
Status | Retired[1] |
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Occupation | Fighter pilot |
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Space career | |
Roscosmos cosmonaut | |
Rank | Colonel, Russian Air Force |
Time in space | 827 days, 9 hours, 20 minutes |
Selection | TsPK-8 Cosmonaut Group (1987) |
Total EVAs | 6 |
Total EVA time | 34 hours, 52 minutes |
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Mission insignia |
Yuri Ivanovich Malenchenko (Russian: Юрий Иванович Маленченко; born December 22, 1961) is a retired Russian cosmonaut. 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 (390 km) over New Zealand, on the International Space Station.[2] As of December 2023, Malenchenko ranks third for career time in space due to his time on both Mir and the International Space Station (ISS).[3] He is a former commander of the International Space Station.