Yury Lonchakov
Yury Lonchakov | |
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1997 TsPK Cosmonaut Group | |
Total EVAs | 2 |
Total EVA time | 10 hours 27 minutes |
Missions | STS-100, Soyuz TMA-1/TM-34, Soyuz TMA-13 (Expedition 18) |
Mission insignia |
Yury Valentinovich Lonchakov (Russian: Юрий Валентинович Лончаков; born 4 March 1965) is a Russian former
Personal
Lonchakov was born on 4 March 1965, in Balkhash, Dzhezkazkansk Region,
Education
Following graduation from high school in 1982, Lonchakov entered the Orenburg Air Force Pilot School, graduating with honors in 1986 as pilot-engineer. In 1995, Lonchakov entered the Zhukovski Air Force Academy from which he graduated with honors in 1998 as pilot-engineer-researcher.
Awards and ranks
Lonchakov was awarded the
Military career
After graduation from pilot school, Lonchakov served as a second crew commander, crew commander, squadron senior pilot, and aviation brigade commander in the Russian Navy. Lonchakov has logged over 1400 hours of flight time, is a Class 1 Air Force pilot, and a paratroop training instructor with 526 jumps.
Cosmonaut career
Lonchakov was selected as a test-cosmonaut candidate of the
STS-100
Lonchakov's first spaceflight was the
Soyuz TMA-1/TM-34
On 25 March 2002, Lonchakov passed training for a spaceflight as the backup crew commander of the
Lonchakov returned to the ISS in October 2002 as a crewmember of the Soyuz taxi flight
Expedition 18
Lonchakov was originally selected to be a flight engineer on Expedition 19, but was transferred to the Expedition 18 crew as a flight engineer and Soyuz commander, after Salizhan Sharipov was removed from the crew.[9] The Soyuz TMA-13 spacecraft with Lonchakov, Expedition 18 commander Michael Fincke and space tourist Richard Garriott launched on 12 October 2008 at 7:01 UTC.[10][11] Lonchakov served as the Soyuz commander. After a two-day autonomous flight, Soyuz TMA-13 successfully docked to the Earth-facing docking port of the Zarya module of the ISS on 14 October at 08:26 GMT, seven minutes ahead of schedule. Lonchakov joined the ISS Expedition 18 crew as a flight engineer. While Richard Garriott was aboard, Lonchakov participated during his personal time (along with Michael Fincke, Gregory Chamitoff and Richard Garriott) in filming and starring in a science-fiction movie made in space, Apogee of Fear.
On 12 March 2009, a piece of
Lonchakov returned to Earth with NASA astronaut Michael Fincke and spaceflight participant Charles Simonyi. The Soyuz TMA-13 capsule landed in Kazakhstan on 8 April 2009, at 7:16 UTC.
Spacewalks
Lonchakov has performed two career spacewalks totalling 10 hours and 27 minutes.
On 23 December 2008, Lonchakov performed his first career spacewalk with NASA astronaut Michael Fincke.[13] They installed an electromagnetic energy measuring device, (Langmuir probe) on Pirs, removed the Russian Biorisk long-duration experiment, installed the Exposing Specimens of Organic and Biological Materials to Open Space (Expose-R) experiment package on Zvezda, but subsequently removed it after it failed to activate and transmit telemetry on ground command. The two spacewalkers also installed the Impulse experiment which measures disturbances in the ionosphere around the space station. The EVA was conducted from Pirs airlock in Russian Orlan space suits.[14][15] The spacewalk lasted 5 hours and 38 minutes.
On 10 March 2009, Lonchakov performed his second career spacewalk, again with Fincke. The two spacewalkers installed the EXPOSE-R experiment onto the universal science platform of the Zvezda module, removed tape straps from the area of the docking target on the Pirs airlock and docking compartment, inspected and photographed the exterior of the Russian portion of the station.[16] The spacewalk was conducted from Pirs Docking Compartment airlock in Russian Orlan space suits.[17] and came to a close at 21:11 UTC when the airlock hatch was closed. The spacewalk lasted 4 hours and 49 minutes and marked the 120th spacewalk in support of space station assembly and maintenance.
Resignation
In 2013, he submitted his resignation, effective 14 September. It was announced that he was resigning for a more interesting job. Lonchakov had been scheduled to fly on Expedition 44 to the International Space Station, and at the time of announcement, no replacement had been named.[18] Gennady Padalka will be his replacement.
Post-space career
Lonchakov resigned from the cosmonaut corps and took up a position at Gazprom. On 31 March 2014 he was appointed acting head of GCTC.[citation needed]
See also
References
This article incorporates public domain material from websites or documents of the
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- ^ "Russian cosmonaut set for space station mission resigns". UPI. Space Daily. 5 September 2013.