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Yelena Vladimirovna

USSR

Personal data

Birthdate:  30.03.1957
Birthplace:  Rabochi, Moscow Oblast, Russian SFSR
Marital status:  widowed
Children:  one
Selection date:  25.01.1989
Selection group:  NPOE-9
Position:  Test Cosmonaut (TC)
Status:  Ret. 30.12.1999

Spaceflights

No. Mission Position Time Duration
1  Soyuz TM-20 / Mir-17  Flight Engineer  03.10.1994 - 22.03.1995 169d 05h 21m 
2  STS-84 Atlantis  MS  15.05.1997 - 24.05.1997 9d 05h 20m 
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Total  178d 10h 41m 
       

Backup assignments

No. Mission Position
1  Soyuz TM-19  Flight Engineer

Additional information

Graduated from Moscow Bauman High Technical College in mechanical engineering, 1980; since 1985 married to cosmonaut Valeri Ryumin; was selected by GMVK as cosmonaut on 25.01.1989 (NPOE-9); OKP (cosmonaut basic training): 01.10.1990 - 06.03.1992; hobbies: Theatre, river fishing, reading, traveling, tennis, cars; since 2000 member of the Russian Parliament Duma (in December 2007 re-elected).

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