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Gidzenko, Yuri Pavlovich
Gidzenko
Gidzenko
Credit: www.spacefacts.de
Ukrainian pilot cosmonaut 1987-2001. Call sign: Uran (Uranus).

Status: Inactive; Active 1987-2001. Born: 1962-03-26. Spaceflights: 3 . Total time in space: 329.95 days. Birth Place: Elanetsky, Elanets, Nikolayev.

Educated Kharkov.

Official NASA Biography as of June 2016:Gidzenko Yuri Pavlovic (Colonel, Russian Air Force)
Test Cosmonaut of the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center

PERSONAL DATA: Born March 26, 1962, in the village of Elanets, Nikolaev region, the USSR. Married to Gidzenko, Olga Vladimirovna, born in 1961. They have two sons: Sergei and Alexei.

EDUCATION: Yuri Gidzenko graduated from the Higher Military Pilot School in Kharkov (Ukraine) in 1983 and from the Moscow State University of Geodesy and Mapping in 1994.

AWARDS: Hero of the Russian Federation, Military Meritorious award, 4 service medals, Yu. A. Gagarin Diploma.

EXPERIENCE: Upon graduation from the pilot school in 1983 Yuri Gidzenko served in the Air Force as a pilot and a senior pilot.

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.

March to October 1994 he was training for a space flight as a back-up crew commander (17th Primary Expedition/ Euro-Mir-94 Program).

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 from September 3, 1995 to February 29, 1996, and logged 180 days in space. One of the crewmembers on this mission was ESA astronaut Thomas Reiter.

In October 1996 Gidzenko received his assignment as the ISS 1 crewmember, and started training as the ISS pilot and the Soyuz transport vehicle commander. Yuri Gidzenko performed his 140-day long spaceflight aboard the Soyuz transport vehicle/ISS/Space Shuttle October 31, 2000 to March 21, 2001.

Since August 2001 he trained as the Taxi-3 crew (ISS visiting crew) commander. He performed his 3rd space flight in April 25, 2002 – May 5, 2002 as the Taxi-3 crew commander onboard the Soyuz TM-34 vehicle with Roberto Vittori (ESA flight engineer, Italy) and Marc Shuttleworth (space flight participant, South Africa). Gidzenko logged an additional 9 days and 21 hours in space during this flight.

Since 2003 Gidzenko has been serving as a GCTC Department Chief.

AUGUST 2007

Official NASA Biography

NAME: Yuri Pavlovich Gidzenko (Lieutenant Colonel, Air Force Russia)
Cosmonaut of the Y.A. Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center

PERSONAL DATA:
Born March 26, 1962 in the village Elanets, Elanetsky district, Nikolayev region. Resides in Star City. Married to Olga Vladimirovna (Shapovalova), born December 21, 1961. They have two sons. Gidzenko enjoys team sports, swimming, tennis and football. Gidzenko's parents, Pavel Vasilievich and Galina Mikhailovna, reside in the settlement of Berezovka, Odessa region.

EDUCATION:
Graduated from Kharkov Military Aviation College of Pilots in 1983. Graduated from Moscow State University of land-surveying and cartography in 1994.

SPECIAL HONORS:
Awarded three Armed Forces medals.

EXPERIENCE:
After graduation from Aviation College in 1983, served as a pilot and senior pilot in the Air Force. 3rd class military pilot.

December 1987 through June 1989, took the course of general space training. Starting September 1989 continued training in the group of test-cosmonauts.

Instructor of paradrop training. Fulfilled 145 parachute jumps.

From March through October 1994 trained for the 17th main mission and Euromir-94 flight as a commander of the backup crew.

From September 3, 1995 through February 29, 1996, Gidzenko was the commander of the Euromir-95 mission on the Russian Space Station Mir.

Gidzenko is presently in training as the Soyuz Commander for the International Space Station assembly mission 2R, along with fellow Russian Sergei Krikalev and NASA astronaut Bill Shepherd.

MAY 1997


More at: Gidzenko.

Family: Cosmonaut. Country: Ukraine. Spacecraft: ISS, Mir. Flights: Soyuz TM-20, Soyuz TM-22, Soyuz TM-31, STS-102, STS-102 ISS EO-2, Soyuz TM-33 ISS EP-2, Soyuz TM-34 ISS EP-3. Agency: VVS. Bibliography: 12, 5432.

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