- Yuri Gidzenko
Infobox Astronaut
name =Yuri Pavlovich Gidzenko
type =Cosmonaut
nationality =Ukrainian /Russia n
date_birth =birth date and age|1962|3|26
place_birth =Yelanets ,Ukraine
occupation =Pilot
selection =1987
time =329d 22h 44 m
mission =Soyuz TM-22 , Mir EO-20,Expedition 1 ,STS-102 ,Soyuz TM-34 ,Soyuz TM-33
insignia = |Yuri Pavlovich Gidzenko ( _ru. Гидзенко, Юрий Павлович; born
March 26 ,1962 in the village ofElanets ,Mykolaiv Oblast ) is aRussia ncosmonaut of Ukrainian descent. He is a Colonel of theRussia n Air Force, and test cosmonaut of theYuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center . He is married to Olga Vladimirovna Shapovalova, born in 1961. They have two sons, Sergei and Alexei.Education
Gidzenko graduated from the Higher Military Pilot School in
Kharkov (Ukraine ) in 1983, and from the [http://www.miigaik.ru/eng/ Moscow State University of Geodesy and Cartography (MIIGAiK)] in 1994.pecial honors
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Hero of the Russian Federation Experience
Upon graduation from pilot school in 1983, Gidzenko served in the Air Force as a pilot and a senior pilot.
From December 1987 to June 1989, he attended basic space training as a test cosmonaut candidate. Since September 1989 he attended advanced training as a test cosmonaut candidate.
Gidzenko is an instructor of general parachute training. He has logged a total of 145 parachute jumps.
From March to October 1994 he trained for a space flight as a back-up crew commander (17th Primary Expedition/Euro-
Mir -94 Program).From November 1994 to August 1995 he attended training for a space flight aboard the
Soyuz TM transport vehicle/Mir orbital complex as the Expedition 20 Primary Crew Commander (Euro-Mir-95 Program). Yuri Gidzenko served aboard Mir fromSeptember 3 ,1995 toFebruary 29 ,1996 , and logged 180-days in space. One of the crewmembers on this mission was an ESA astronaut.In October 1996, Gidzenko received his assignment as the ISS-1 crewmember in
Expedition 1 , and started training as the ISS pilot and the Soyuz transport vehicle commander. Yuri Gidzenko served aboard the Soyuz transport vehicle/ISS/Space Shuttle fromOctober 31 ,2000 to21 March 2001 , and logged an additional 140 days in space.Since August 2001 Gidzenko has been training as the Taxi-3 crew commander. He was Launched on
April 25 ,2002 on theSoyuz TM-34 mission along with ESA astronautRoberto Vittori and Space TouristMark Shuttleworth he logged 9 days in space.ource
*http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/gidzenko.html
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