Background
Ryumin Valery Victorovitch was born on August 16, 1939 in Komsomolsk-on-Amur, Russia.
Ryumin Valery Victorovitch was born on August 16, 1939 in Komsomolsk-on-Amur, Russia.
Graduate, Kaliningrad Mechanical Engineering Technology College, 1958. Degree in electronics and computing technical, Moscow Forestry Engineering Institute, 1966.
Ground electrical test engineer, deputy lead designer orbital stations, department head, deputy general designer for testing Rocket Space Corporation Energia, Russia, since 1966, cosmonaut Russia, since 1973, member mission Soyuz-25, 1977, member mission Salyut-u space station, 1980, flight director Salyut-7 space station and Mir space station, 1981—1989, director Russian portion Shuttle-Mir and National Aeronautics and Space Administration-Mir program, since 1992, member National Aeronautics and Space Administration crew STS-91, 1998. With Soviet Army, 1958-1961.
1 flight - October 9 - 11, 1977 as a flight engineer of the Soyuz-25 spacecraft, together with V. Kovalenko. The program for a 96-day flight was not performed, since it was impossible to dock with the OS either automatically or in manual mode. Flight duration: 2 days 00 hours 44 minutes 45 seconds. Callsign: "Photon-
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2 flights - February 25 - August 19, 1979 as a flight engineer of the third main expedition (EO-3) at the Salyut-6 DOS, together with V. Lyakhov. Started at the Soyuz-32 spacecraft, landing at the Soyuz-34 spacecraft. During the flight, he made an unplanned departure to outer space to detach the antenna of the radio telescope KRT-10 hooked up for the station's construction: 5.08.1979 - 1 hour 23 minutes.
Flight duration: 175 days 00 hours 35 minutes 37 seconds. Callsign: "Proton-2".
3 flight - April 9 - October 11, 1980 as a flight engineer of the fourth main expedition (EO-4) at the DOS Salyut-6, together with L. Popov. Started at the Soyuz-35 spacecraft, landing at the Soyuz-37 spacecraft. They worked at the station together with Soviet-Hungarian, Soviet-Vietnamese and Soviet-Cuban crews.
Flight duration: 184 days 20 hours 11 minutes 35 seconds. Callsign: "Dnepr-2".
4 flight - 2 -12 June 1998 as a specialist in the space shuttle Discovery STS-91. The flight program included the 9th (and last) docking with OK Mir. Flight duration: 9 days 19 hours 55 minutes 1 second.
Married to fellow cosmonaut Yelena Kondakova, he has two daughters and a son.
