Yuri Malenchenko

Yuri Malenchenko
Yuri Malenchenko
Юрий Маленченко
	Malenchenko in 2015
Born	Yuri Ivanovich Malenchenko; December 22, 1961; Khrushchev, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union (now Svitlovodsk, Ukraine)
Status	Retired
Alma mater	Kharkiv Military Aviation School; Zhukovsky Air Force Engineering Academy;
Occupation	Fighter pilot
Awards
	Space career
Roscosmos cosmonaut
Rank	Colonel, Russian Air Force
Time in space	827 days, 9 hours, 20 minutes
Selection	TsPK-8 Cosmonaut Group (1987)
Total EVAs	6
Total EVA time	34 hours, 52 minutes
Missions	Soyuz TM-19 (Mir EO-16); STS-106; Soyuz TMA-2 (Expedition 7); Soyuz TMA-11 (Expedition 16); Soyuz TMA-05M (Expedition 32/33); Soyuz TMA-19M (Expedition 46/47);
Mission insignia

Yuri Ivanovich Malenchenko (Russian: Юрий Иванович Маленченко; born December 22, 1961) is a retired Russian cosmonaut. Malenchenko became the first person to marry in space, on 10 August 2003, when he married Ekaterina Dmitrieva, who was in Texas, while he was 240 miles (390 km) over New Zealand, on the International Space Station. As of December 2023, Malenchenko ranks third for career time in space due to his time on both Mir and the International Space Station (ISS). He is a former commander of the International Space Station.