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Personal: Male, Married, Two children. Born in Koltubanovskiy, Orenburg, Russia. Soviet Air Force Graduated from Chernigov Higher Air Force School with a pilot-engineer's degree, 1966. Graduated from Military Air Force Academy, Monino, 1981. Soviet Air Force. Soviet Air Force. Astronaut Career Astronaut Group: Air Force Group 5 - 1970. Inactive Entered space service: 27 April 1970. Left space service: 11 October 1988. Number of Flights: 3.00. Total Time: 430.76 days. Number of EVAs: 4.00. Total EVA Time: 0.43 days. Call sign: Taimyr (Taimyr - Russian peninsula). Director Buran Program. Retired in 1995 to work for SAO Stilteks. Underwater fishing, building model aircraft, painting, driving.
Romanenko Spaceflight Log
Romanenko Chronology 24 March 1970 - Only nine of 16 cosmonaut-finalists cleared by the KGB and Communist Party. Kamanin reports that only nine of 16 cosmonaut-candidates that completed the arduous selection process have been cleared by the KGB and Communist Party for actual acceptance for cosmonaut training. He feels this makes the whole time-consuming selection process a waste of time. The VVS is reluctant to submit officers as cosmonaut candidates, fearing that if they fail the vestibular table tests they will not only be rejected as cosmonauts, but be unable to return to flight duty with the Air Force. The result is a final selection of dullards, who are not intellectual, or literary, or sports enthusiasts, who are poor readers and not really interested in spaceflight or cosmonautics. The final decree has been issued reorganising TsUKOS as GUKOS. 27 April 1970 - Soviet Air Force Cosmonaut Training Group 5 selected.. 30 April 1970 - Pressure on cosmonauts for more public relations tasks.. Kamanin notes that the 27 April decree has selected only nine new cosmonauts from 300 pilot and 100 engineer candidates. He believes at least 30 should have been selected. Currently there are only 18 active cosmonauts, but Kamanin feels he needs at least 100, just to cover all the public relations appearance demands made on them. 2 December 1974 - Soyuz 16. Assignment: Support Crew. Flight: Soyuz 16. ASTP Manned Test Flight. Check-out of the Soyuz space craft's on-board systems which had been modernized to meet the requirements of the 1975 joint flight in accordance with the programme of the Soviet-United States experiment; conduct of scientific and technical investigations. 15 July 1975 - Soyuz 19 (ASTP). Assignment: Support Crew. Flight: Soyuz 19 (ASTP), Apollo (ASTP). Soyuz 19 initial orbital parameters were 220.8 by 185.07 kilometres, at the desired inclination of 51.80°, while the period of the first orbit was 88.6 minutes. On 17 July the two spacecraft docked. The crew members rotated between the two spacecraft and conducted various mainly ceremonial activities. Leonov was on the American side for 5 hours, 43 minutes, while Kubasov spent 4:57 in the command and docking modules. After being docked for nearly 44 hours, Apollo and Soyuz parted for the first time and were station-keeping at a range of 50 meters. The Apollo crew placed its craft between Soyuz and the sun so that the diameter of the service module formed a disk which blocked out the sun. After this experiment Apollo moved towards Soyuz for the second docking. Three hours later Apollo and Soyuz undocked for the second and final time. The spacecraft moved to a 40 m station-keeping distance so that an ultraviolet absorption experiment could be performed. With all the joint flight activities completed, the ships went on their separate ways. 9 October 1977 - Soyuz 25. Assignment: Backup Crew. Flight: Soyuz 25. Manned two crew. Unsuccessful mission. Failed to dock with Salyut 6. 10 December 1977 - Soyuz 26. Assignment: Prime Crew. Flight: Salyut 6 EO-1. Manned two crew. Docked with Salyut 6. Carried Yuri Romanenko, Georgi Grechko to Salyut 6; returned crew of Soyuz 27 to Earth. Conduct of joint experiments with the Salyut-6 scientific station. 19 December 1977 - EVA Salyut 6 EO-1-1. Assignment: EVA Crew. Flight: Salyut 6 EO-1. Inspected Salyut 6 docking port. 16 March 1978 - Landing of Soyuz 27. Assignment: Return Crew. Flight: Salyut 6 EO-1. Soyuz 27 landed at 11:19 GMT with the crew of Grechko and Romanenko aboard. 10 April 1979 - Soyuz 33. Assignment: Backup Crew. Flight: Salyut 6 EP-5-1, Salyut 6 EO-3. Manned two crew. Flight under the Intercosmos programme of an international team consisting of N N Rukavishnikov (USSR) and G I Ivanov (Bulgaria). Unsuccessful mission. Failed to rendezvous with Salyut 6. 18 September 1980 - Soyuz 38. Assignment: Prime Crew. Flight: Salyut 6 EP-8, Salyut 6 EO-4. Manned two crew. Docked with Salyut 6. Transported to the Salyut-6 station the seventh international crew under the INTERCOSMOS programme, comprising Y V Romanenko (USSR) and A. Tomaio Mendez (Cuba), to conduct scientific research and experiments. 26 September 1980 - Landing of Soyuz 38. Assignment: Return Crew. Flight: Salyut 6 EP-8, Salyut 6 EO-4. Soyuz 38 landed at 15:54 GMT. 14 May 1981 - Soyuz 40. Assignment: Backup Crew. Flight: Salyut 6 EP-10, Salyut 6 EO-6. Manned two crew. Docked with Salyut 6. Transported to the Salyut-6 orbital station the ninth international crew under the INTERCOSMOS programme, comprising L I Popov (USSR), and D. Prunariu (Romania), to conduct scientific research and experiments. 19 August 1982 - Soyuz T-7. Assignment: Backup Crew. Flight: Salyut 7 EP-2, Salyut 7 EO-1. Docked with Salyut 7. Carried Svetlana Savitskaya, Leonid Popov, Alexander Serebrov to Salyut 7 to conduct scientific and technical research and experiments. 5 February 1987 - Soyuz TM-2. Assignment: Prime Crew. Flight: Mir EO-2, Mir LD-1. Mir Expedition EO-02. Docked with Mir 7 February 1987. Carried Yuri Romanenko, Aleksander Laveykin to Mir; returned Laveykin, crew of Soyuz TM-3 to Earth. 11 April 1987 - EVA Mir EO-2-1. Assignment: EVA Crew. Flight: Mir EO-2, Mir LD-1. Removed bag from docking unit that interfered with Kvant docking. 12 June 1987 - EVA Mir EO-2-2. Assignment: EVA Crew. Flight: Mir EO-2, Mir LD-1. Began solar array installation. 16 June 1987 - EVA Mir EO-2-3. Assignment: EVA Crew. Flight: Mir EO-2, Mir LD-1. Continued solar array installation. 29 December 1987 - Landing of Soyuz TM-3. Assignment: Return Crew. Flight: Mir EO-3, Mir LII-1, Soyuz TM-3, Mir LD-1. Soyuz TM-3 undocked from Mir at 05:55 GMT and landed near Arkalyk at 09:16 GMT with the crew of Aleksandrov, Levchenko (Soyuz TM-4) and Romanenko (Soyuz TM-2) aboard. Bibliography and Further Reading
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