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Onufrienko, Yuri Ivanovich
Onufrienko
Onufrienko
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Ukrainian pilot cosmonaut 1989-2004. After leaving cosmonaut corps in April 2004, assigned as Deputy Chief for the First Administration of RGNII TsPK. Call sign: Skif (Skif - Roman-age tribe). 389 cumulative days in space.

Status: Inactive; Active 1989-2004. Born: 1961-02-06. Spaceflights: 2 . Total time in space: 389.62 days. Birth Place: Zolochevsk, Ryasnoye, Kharkov.

Official NASA Biography as of June 2016:Yuri Ivanovich Onufrienko
Colonel, test cosmonaut. Resides in Star City.

PERSONAL DATA: Born February 6, 1961 in Ryasnoe, Zolochev district, Kharkov region, Ukraine. Married to Valentina Mikhailovna Onufrienko (nee Ryabovol). Two sons and one daughter. His parents are deceased. He has two older brothers. Yuri enjoys tennis, cooking, fishing, chess, and flying.

EDUCATION: Graduated from the V.M. Komarov Eisk Higher Military Aviation School for Pilots in 1982 with a pilot-engineer's diploma. Graduated from Moscow State University in 1994 with a degree in cartography.

HONORS: Hero of Russia. Awarded two Armed Forces medals. He was also named a Chevalier in the French Honor Legion

EXPERIENCE: Upon graduation from aviation school, he served as a pilot and senior pilot in the Air Force. In 1989, he was appointed to the position of cosmonaut candidate at the Cosmonaut Training Center. From September 1989 to January 1991, he underwent a course of general space training. Starting April 1991, he underwent training as a member of a group of test cosmonauts. Starting March 1994, he entered flight training to be the commander of the stand-by crew of the Mir-18 expedition aboard the Soyuz-TM-21 transport vehicle and the Mir Station as part of the Mir-Shuttle program.

He has over 800 flight hours and has flown the L-29, SU-7, SU-17 (M1-4), and L-39.

Onufrienko has flown twice and has logged a total of 389 days in space.

SPACE FLIGHT EXPERIENCE: From February 21 to September 2, 1996, he served as Commander on Mir-21. One month later, he and Yuri Usachev were joined by NASA's Shannon Lucid. During Mir-21 he performed numerous research experiments, an participated in six EVAs. He and Yuri Usachev were joined by French cosmonaut Claudie Andre-Deshays after the departure of Shannon Lucid. Altogether, he has logged 193 days in space.

Onufrienko again served as Commander on ISS Expedition-4. The mission launched on December 5, 2001 aboard STS-108 and docked with the International Space Station on December 7, 2001. During a 6-1/2 month stay aboard the Space Station, the crew performed flight tests of the station hardware, conducted internal and external maintenance tasks, and developed the capability of the station to support the addition of science experiments. Wearing the Russian Orlan spacesuit, Onufrienko logged 12 hours and 02 minutes of EVA time in two separate spacewalks. The Expedition-4 crew returned to Earth aboard STS-111, with Endeavour landing at Edwards Air Force Base, California, on June 19, 2002. In completing this mission, Onufrienko logged an additional 196 days in space.

JUNE 2002

Official NASA Biography - 1997

Yuriy Ivanovich ONUFRIYENKO

He is a Lieutenant colonel and lives in Star City.

Position: Test-cosmonaut of the Yu.A. Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center.

Place and date of birth: February 6, 1961, village of Ryasnoye, Zolochevsk district, Kharkov region.

Parents: Father, Ivan Petrovich ONUFRIYENKO, born 1923, lives in the village on Ryasnoye, Zolochevsk district, Kharkov region.

Mother: Yelena Fedorovna Gres, born 1925, died in 1981.

Education: Yeysk V. M. Komarov Higher Military Aviation School for Pilots, 1982

Family status: married, wife Valentina Mikhaylovna ONUFRIYENKO (RYABOVOL), BORN IN 1962.

Son: Yurity, born 1982; Aleksandr, born in 1990.

Daughter: Yelena, born in 1988

Interests: aviation and cosmonauts, sports.

Honors: awarded two Armed Forces Medals.

Work experience: After graduation from the aviation school in 1982, he served as a pilot and senior pilot in the Air Forces. He is a military pilot 3rd class.

He was assigned to the Yu.A. Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in 1989. From September 1989 to January 1991 he attended the general space training course.

From April 1991 to February 1994 he trained for space flight as part of the test-cosmonaut group in the "Mir" orbital station program.

From February 1994 to February 1995 he trained for flight as backup crew commander for Mir-18 an "Mir-Shuttle" programs.

From March to June 1995 he trained for flight on the Mir station for Mir-19 and "Mir-Shuttle" programs as the commander of the backup crew.

At present he is training for space flight in the Soyuz TM transport vehicle and the Mir station as commander of the main crew for Mir-21 and "Mir-NASA" programs.


More at: Onufrienko.

Family: Cosmonaut. Country: Ukraine. Spacecraft: ISS, Mir. Flights: STS-71 Mir EO-19, Soyuz TM-23, STS-102 ISS EO-2, STS-108 ISS EO-4, STS-111, STS-111 ISS EO-5. Agency: VVS. Bibliography: 12, 5853.

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