Roman Romanienko
Roman Yurievich Romanenko (Major, Russian Air Force; Russian: ????? ??????? ?????????; born August 9, 1971) is a retired cosmonaut at the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center. Romanenko was born in Shchyolkovo, near Moscow. After graduation from Star City high school in 1986, Romanenko entered the Leningrad Suvorov military school, from which he graduated in 1988. In 1988, he entered the Chernigov High Air Force School for pilots, from which he graduated in 1992 as a pilot-engineer. 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.
Spaceflights
No. Mission Position Time Duration
1 Soyuz TMA-15 / ISS-20 / ISS-21 Commander / Flight Engineer 27.05.2009 - 01.12.2009 187d 20h 41m
2 Soyuz TMA-07M / ISS-34 / ISS-35 Commander / Flight Engineer 19.12.2012 - 14.05.2013 145d 14h 18m
Total 333d 10h 59m
