Roman Romanenko
Roman Romanenko is an astronaut from Russia affiliated with the government agency Russian Federal Space Agency (ROSCOSMOS), embarked on 2 space flights and engaging in 1 spacewalk(s) during his/her career as an astronaut.
Roman Yurievich Romanenko (Major, Russian Air Force; Russian: Роман Юрьевич Романенко; born August 9, 1971) is a retired cosmonaut at the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center.
Romanenko was selected as a cosmonaut candidate at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center Cosmonaut Office in December 1997. From January 1998 to November 1999 he undertook his basic training course. In November 1999 he was qualified as a Test Cosmonaut.
He served as the backup to Oleg Kotov as the Commander of Soyuz TMA-10 and Fyodor Yurchikhin as Commander of Expedition 15.
- Date of Birth: 08/09/1971
- Status: Retired
- First Flight: 05/27/2009
- Last Flight: 12/19/2012
- In Space: No
Launches
Spacewalk
Expedition 35 EVA 1
The spacewalk began at 04/19/2013 14:03 UTC and ended at 04/19/2013 20:41 UTC on the International Space Station for a total of 6 hours and 38 minutes.
