Yury Romanenko

Yury Viktorovich Romanenko (Russian: Ю́рий Ви́кторович Романе́нко, Jurij Viktorovič Romanenko; born August 1, 1944) is a former Soviet cosmonaut, twice Hero of the Soviet Union (March 16, 1978 and September 26, 1980). Over his career, Yury Romanenko spent a total of 430 days 20 hours 21 minutes 30 seconds in space and 18 hours in space walks. In 1987 he was a resident of the Mir space station, launching on Soyuz TM-2 and landing aboard Soyuz TM-3. He remained on Mir for 326 days that was the longest stay in space at that time. His son, Roman Romanenko is also a cosmonaut, and has become the third second-generation space traveler on Soyuz TMA-15 in May 2009.

Biography from Launch Library 2.

• Soyuz-U2 | Soyuz TM-2 — Commander · Success · February 5, 1987
• Soyuz-U | Soyuz 38 — Commander · Success · September 18, 1980 · 19:11 UTC
• Soyuz-U | Soyuz 26 — Commander · Success · December 10, 1977 · 01:18 UTC

• PE-2 EVA 3 — 1987-06-16 · 3h 15m
• PE-2 EVA 2 — 1987-06-12 · 1h 53m
• PE-2 EVA 1 — 1987-04-11 · 3h 40m
• PE-1 EVA — 1977-12-19 · 1h 28m