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Valeri Viktorovich Ryumin Russian Engineer Cosmonaut. Born 16 August 1939. Was married to astronaut Yelena Kondakova. 371 cumulative days in space.

Personal: Male, Married, Three children. Born in Komsomolsk-na-Amure, Khabarovsk, Russia. Korolev Design Bureau Civilian Engineer, Korolev OKB

Astronaut Career

Astronaut Group: Energia Engineer Group 4 - 1973. Inactive Entered space service: 27 March 1973. Left space service: 28 October 1987. Number of Flights: 4.00. Total Time: 371.73 days. Number of EVAs: 1.00. Total EVA Time: 0.0576 days.

NASA Official Biography

NAME: Valery Victorovitch Ryumin
Russian Cosmonaut

PERSONAL DATA:
Born August 16, 1939 in the city of Komsomolsk-on-Amur in the Russian Far East. Married. Has two daughters and a son. His hobbies include tennis, angling, hunting, walking through forests, and travel.

EDUCATION:
In 1958, he was graduated from the Kaliningrad Mechanical Engineering Technical College with the specialty "Cold Working of Metal." In 1966, he was graduated from the Department of Electronics and Computing Technology of the Moscow Forestry Engineering Institute with the specialty "Spacecraft Control Systems."

SPECIAL HONORS:
Ryumin has been decorated twice as Hero of the Soviet Union, and has been awarded other Russian and foreign decorations.

EXPERIENCE:
From 1958 to 1961, Ryumin served in the army as a tank commander.

From 1966 to the present, he has been employed at the Rocket Space Corporation Energia, holding the positions of: Ground Electrical Test Engineer, Deputy Lead Designer for Orbital Stations, Department Head, and Deputy General Designer for Testing. He helped develop and prepare all orbital stations, beginning with Salyut-1.

In 1973, he joined the RSC Energia cosmonaut corps. A veteran of three space flights, Ryumin has logged a total of 362 days in space. In 1977, he spent 2 days aboard Soyuz-25, in 1979, he spent 175 days aboard Soyuz vehicles and the Salyut-6 space station, and in 1980, he spent 185 days aboard Soyuz vehicles and the Salyut-6 space station.

From 1981 to 1989, Ryumin was flight director for the Salyut-7 space station and the Mir space station. Since 1992, he has been the Director of the Russian portion of the Shuttle-Mir and NASA-Mir program.

In January 1998, NASA announced Ryumin's selection to the crew of STS-91, the final scheduled Shuttle-Mir docking mission, concluding the joint U.S./Russian Phase I Program. STS-91 is scheduled for a May 1998 launch.

FEBRUARY 1998
Ryumin Spaceflight Log

  • 9 October 1977 Flight: Soyuz 25. Flight Up: Soyuz 25. Flight Back: Soyuz 25. Flight Time: 2.03 days.
  • 25 February 1979 Flight: Salyut 6 EO-3. Flight Up: Soyuz 32. Flight Back: Soyuz 34. Flight Time: 175.02 days.
  • 9 April 1980 Flight: Salyut 6 EO-4. Flight Up: Soyuz 35. Flight Back: Soyuz 37. Flight Time: 184.84 days.
  • 2 June 1998 Flight: STS-91. Flight Up: STS-91. Flight Back: STS-91. Flight Time: 9.83 days.
Ryumin Chronology

27 March 1973 - Energia Engineer Cosmonaut Training Group 4 selected..

9 October 1977 - Soyuz 25. Manned two crew. Unsuccessful mission. Failed to dock with Salyut 6.
11 October 1977 - Landing of Soyuz 25. Soyuz 25 landed at 03:24 GMT.
15 June 1978 - Soyuz 29. Manned two crew. Docked with Salyut 6. Placed on board the Salyut-6 station a crew consisting of V.V. Kovalenko and A.S. Ivanchenkov to conduct scientific and technological investigations and experiments.
25 February 1979 - Soyuz 32. Manned two crew. Docked with Salyut 6. Transported a team consisting of V A Lyakhov and V V Ryumin to the Salyut-6 space station to conduct scientific investigations and experiments and repair work. Recovered June 15, 1979 16:18 GMT. Returned unmanned.
15 June 1979 - Landing of Soyuz 32. Soyuz 32 landed at 16:18 GMT.
15 August 1979 - EVA Salyut 6 EO-3-1. Jettisoned KRT-10 antenna from rear docking port.
19 August 1979 - Landing of Soyuz 34. Soyuz 34 landed at 12:30 GMT with the crew of Lyakhov and Ryumin aboard.
9 April 1980 - Soyuz 35. Manned two crew. Docked with Salyut 6. Carried crew comprising L I Popov and V V Ryumin to the Salyut-6 station to carry out scientific and technical research and experiments.
11 October 1980 - Landing of Soyuz 37. Soyuz 37 landed at 09:50 GMT with the crew of Popov and Ryumin aboard.
2 June 1998 - STS-91. The final shuttle-Mir mission, STS-91 recovered NASA astronaut Andy Thomas from the Mir station and took Russian space chief and ex-cosmonaut Valeri Ryumin to Mir for an inspection tour of the ageing station. This was the first test of the super lightweight Aluminium-Lithium alloy external tank, designed to increase shuttle payload to the Mir / International Space Station orbit by 4,000 kg. At 22:15 GMT Discovery entered an initial 74 x 324 km x 51.6 deg orbit, with the OMS-2 burn three quarters of an hour later circulising the chase orbit. Discovery docked with the SO module on Mir at 17:00 GMT on June 4. NASA equipment was retrieved from the station, and Discovery undocked at 16:01 GMT on June 8, and landed on Runway 15 at Kennedy Space Center at 18:00 GMT on June 12.
12 June 1998 - Landing of STS-91. STS-91 landed at 18:00 GMT with the crew of Precourt, Gorie, Lawrence, Chang-Diaz, Kavandi, Ryumin and Thomas Andrew aboard.
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