- Roman Romanenko
Infobox Astronaut
name =Roman Yurievich Romanenko
type =Cosmonaut
status =Active
nationality =Russia n
date_birth =birth date and age|1971|08|09
place_birth =Shchyolkovo ,Russia
occupation =Pilot
rank =Second Commander, Russian Air Force
selection =1998
time =
mission =Soyuz TMA-16
insignia = |Roman Yurievich Romanenko (Major, Russian Air Force) ( _ru. Роман Юрьевич Романенко; born
August 9 ,1971 , inShchyolkovo , nearMoscow ) is acosmonaut at the Yu.A. Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center.His parents, Yuri Victorovich Romanenko and Aleftina Ivanovna, live in Star City. He is married to Yulia Leonidovna Romanenko (Danilovskaya). They have one son. His hobbies include underwater hunting, tennis, car repairs, tourism, yachting, volleyball and music.
After graduation from Star City high school in 1986, Romanenko entered the Leningrad Suvorov military school, from which he graduated in 1988. In 1988, he entered the Chernigov High Air Force School for pilots, from which he graduated in 1992 as a pilot-engineer.
Following graduation from pilot school Romanenko served as a second commander in the Air Force. He flew L-39 and Tu-134 aircraft. Romanenko has logged over 500 hours of flight time. He is a Class 3 Air Force pilot.
Romanenko was selected as a cosmonaut candidate at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center Cosmonaut Office in December 1997. From January 1998 to November 1999 he undertook his basic training course. In November 1999 he was qualified as a Test Cosmonaut.
He served as the backup to Oleg Kotov as the Commander of Soyuz TMA-10 and Fyodor Yurchikin as Commander of Expedition 15.
ource
* [http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/romanenko.html NASA Bio]
* [http://www.spacefacts.de/bios/cosmonauts/english/romanenko_roman.htm Spacefacts biography of Roman Romanenko]
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