Yury Usachov

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Full Name	Yury Usachov
Occupation	Engineer
Date Of Birth	Oct 9, 1957(1957-10-09)
Age	67
Country	Russia
Birth City	Donetsk
Horoscope	Libra

Yury Usachov Biography

Yury Usachov is one of the most popular and richest Engineer who was born on October 9, 1957 in Donetsk, Russia. Yury Vladimirovich Uschchov (Russian: Iurii Vladimirovich Urachiov; October 9, 1957, Donetsk in Rostov Oblast Russia) is an ex-cosmonaut, who now resides in Star City in Moscow. Usachov has been on four spaceflights including two long-duration missions aboard the Mir Space Station and one onboard the International Space Station. He also did seven spacewalks during his career before retiring on April 5, 2004.

He was elected to the Cosmonaut Training Center in 1989 as a cosmonaut candidate. He completed a course in general space training from 1989 to 1992. He was part of the Mir-13, 14 & 19 back-up crew. He was the Space Station Mir’s Board Engineer from January 8, 1994 until July 9, 1994.

On 6 June 1996, Usachov performed his fifth career spacewalk. He and Onufriyenko installed micro-meteoroid detectors and replaced cassettes in the Swiss/Russian Komza experiment and installed the Particle Impact Experiment, the Mir Sample Return Experiment, and the SKK-11 cassette, which exposed construction materials to space conditions. The spacewalk lasted 3 hours and 34 minutes.

On 30 May 1996, Usachov stepped outside the Mir Space Station to conduct his fourth career spacewalk. He and cosmonaut Onufriyenko started the spacewalk at 18:20 UTC. They installed the modular optoelectrical multispectral scanner (MOMS) outside Priroda and handrails on the Kvant-2 module to facilitate moving around outside the station during future extravehicular activities. MOMS was used to study the Earth’s atmosphere and environment. The spacewalk lasted 4 hours and 20 minutes.

On January 8, 1994, Usachov’s first spaceflight was made. At 10:05:34 UTC, the Soyuz TM-18 spacecraft carrying Usachov and cosmonauts Viktor Afanasyev lifted off from Baikonur Cosmodrome. Usachov was the Flight Engineer. Soyuz TM-18 landed at the Kvant-1 module at Mir’s Mir space station after two days of solo flight. This was at 11:15 UTC. They became the 15th Mir resident crew. Usachov was a Flight Engineer. On January 14, the Mir’s Soyuz TM-17 spacecraft left and struck Kristall module twice during an inspection fly-around. The Mir’s EO-15 crew found no damage to Kristall after the incident. Three Progress spacecraft arrived at Mir during Usachov’s stay. On the 30th of January, three Progress spacecraft arrived at Mir. They arrived on March 24, May 24, and May 24. The Progress spacecraft brought food, fuel, spare parts, and equipment to maintain Mir’s systems as well as additional equipment for medical research.

Yury Usachov Net Worth

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

In 1975, Usachov graduated with a diploma from the Donetsk Public School. He received an engineering diploma from Moscow Aviation Institute in 1985.

Afanasyev and Usachov did not make a smooth return to Earth aboard the Soyuz TM-18 descend module. It landed 110km north of Arkalyk, Kazakhstan at 10:32.35 GMT on July 9, 1994. Usachov flew 182 days on the Mir space station.

Usachov performed his sixth career spacewalk on 13 June 1996. The spacewalk started at 12:45 UTC and ended at 18:27 UTC clocking 5 hours and 42 minutes. During the spacewalk, Usachov and Onufriyenko installed the Rapana truss structure (an experiment mounting point) to the Kvant-1 module. The two cosmonauts also manually deployed the saddle-shaped traverse synthetic aperture radar antenna on Priroda. The large antenna had failed to open fully after receiving commands from inside Mir.

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From February 21 to September 2, 1996, Usachov served as a Board Engineer of the Mir EO-21 expedition. The Soyuz TM-23 spacecraft carrying Usachov with cosmonaut Yuri Onufriyenko lifted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome on February 21, 1996 at 12:34:05 UTC. After two days of autonomous flight, the Soyuz spacecraft docked with the Mir space station’s forward-facing port on February 23 at 14:20 UTC. One month later, he and Onufriyenko were joined by NASA astronaut Shannon Lucid. During Mir-21 Usachev performed numerous research experiments. The new module Priroda, the seventh and final module of the Mir Space Station arrived on April 26, 1996. Its primary purpose was to conduct Earth resource experiments through remote sensing and to develop and verify remote sensing methods. During Mir EO-21 supplies arrived with the Progress M-31 spacecraft. Usachov and Onufriyenko were joined by French astronaut Claudie André-Deshays after the departure of Shannon Lucid.

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On June 8, 2001, Usachov performed his seventh career spacewalk. He and NASA astronaut James Voss donned spacesuits entered the small, spherical transfer compartment at the forward end of the Zvezda Service Module during an “internal” spacewalk. The spacewalk at the ISS was the first without the presence of a shuttle. Just after the ISS flew over the dark side of the Earth, they removed a hatch at the Earth-facing part of the compartment to open it to the vacuum of space and officially begin the spacewalk at 9:21 a.m CDT. During the 19-minute spacewalk which ended at 9:40 a.m. CDT, Usachov and Voss moved a docking cone from storage and using a rotating handle, installed it in the lower port hatch. The installation of the docking cone was necessary to prepare for the arrival of the Russian docking compartment.