Yury Lonchakov

Quick Facts

Full Name	Yury Lonchakov
Occupation	Engineer
Date Of Birth	Mar 4, 1965(1965-03-04)
Age	59
Birthplace	Balkhash
Country	Kazakhstan
Birth City	Karaganda Region
Horoscope	Pisces

Yury Lonchakov Biography

Yury Lonchakov is one of the most popular and richest Engineer who was born on March 4, 1965 in Balkhash, Karaganda Region, Kazakhstan. Lonchakov was conceived in Balkhash (Dzhezkazkansk Region), Kazakhstan, on March 4, 1965. Since he spent his youth and childhood there, Aktyubinsk is his hometown. Lonchokov was born to Lonchakov Valentin Gavrilovich, and Galina Vasilyevna, geologists. He is married Lonchakova (Dolmatova), Tatyana Alexeevna. Kirill was born in 1990. His interests include books, travel, auto- tourism and downhill skiing.

Lonchakov’s spaceflight was STS-100, the Space Shuttle mission that installed Canadarm2, the International Space Station robotic arm. Endeavour’s mission also included the following major tasks: berth Raffaello’s logistics module to the station and activate it. Also, Raffaello’s cargo transfer to and from the station was completed. Raffaello was reberth in Endeavour’s payload bay. Space Shuttle Endeavour took off from Kennedy Space Center on April 19, 2001 at 18:40.42 UTC. Lonchakov was the mission specialist. Endeavour touched down with the ISS at 13:59 UTC on 21 April 2001 after nearly two days of flight. The shuttle disembarked from the ISS on April 19, after 8 days of docked operations. Although originally scheduled for KSC, Endeavour was forced to land at Edwards Air Force Base, California due to cloud cover, rain showers, and gusty winds. STS-100’s mission lasted 11 days, 21 minutes, 31 seconds, and 14 seconds.

On 25 March 2002, Lonchakov passed training for a spaceflight as the backup crew commander of the Soyuz-TM, Soyuz-TMA spacecraft, 4th visiting crew under the ISS program. On 1 October 2002, he was selected for the prime crew as flight engineer-2 and remained the backup crew commander.

On 23 December 2008, Lonchakov performed his first career spacewalk with NASA astronaut Michael Fincke. They installed an electromagnetic energy measuring device, (Langmuir probe) on Pirs, removed the Russian Biorisk long-duration experiment, installed the Exposing Specimens of Organic and Biological Materials to Open Space (Expose-R) experiment package on Zvezda, but subsequently removed it after it failed to activate and transmit telemetry on ground command. The two spacewalkers also installed the Impulse experiment which measures disturbances in the ionosphere around the space station. The EVA was conducted from Pirs airlock in Russian Orlan space suits. The spacewalk lasted 5 hours and 38 minutes.

Lonchakov was chosen as a test-cosmonaut Candidate by the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center Cosmonaut Office December 1997. He took part in the Baikonur Cosmodrome training for survival under extreme circumstances in July 2004.

Yury Lonchakov Net Worth

Yury Lonchakov is one of the richest Engineer from Kazakhstan. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Yury Lonchakov 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Yury Valentinovich Lonchakov (Russian: Iurii Valentineovich Lonchakov; born March 4, 1965) is an ex-cosmonaut from Russia and has been a veteran of three space missions. He has been in space for 200 days and has done two career spacewalks.

Lonchakov graduated from high school in 1982 and entered the Orenburg Air Force Pilot School. He was a pilot-engineer in 1986. In 1995, Lonchakov entered the Zhukovski Air Force Academy from which he graduated with honors in 1998 as pilot-engineer-researcher.

Lonchakov returned to the ISS in October 2002 as a crewmember of the Soyuz taxi flight Soyuz TMA-1. The Soyuz spacecraft carrying commander Lonchakov, flight engineer cosmonaut Sergei Zalyotin and ESA astronaut Frank De Winne lifted off from the Baikonour Cosmodrome on 30 October 2002, at 03:11 UTC. Thick fog on the ground obscured the launch from the cameras, which showed only a silhouette of the rocket and the flame exhaust. The successful docking between the Soyuz TMA-1 and the ISS did take place at 05:01 UTC on 1 November

2002. After spending 10 days, 20 hours and 53 minutes in space Lonchakov returned to Earth on Soyuz TM-34. The Soyuz TM-34 spacecraft, undocked from the nadir port of the Zarya module of the ISS on 9 November at 20:44 GMT and landed 100 km north east of Arkalyk on 10 November 2002 at 00:04 UTC. Soyuz TM-34 was the last of the Soyuz-TM spacecraft and was replaced by the Soyuz- TMA.

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In 2013, he submitted his resignation, effective 14 September. It was announced that he was resigning for a more interesting job. Lonchakov had been scheduled to fly on Expedition 44 to the International Space Station, and at the time of announcement, no replacement had been named. Gennady Padalka will be his replacement.

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Yury Ranked on the list of most popular Engineer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Kazakhstan. Yury Lonchakov celebrates birthday on March 4 of every year.