Ryumin

Valeri Viktorovich

USSR/CIS


International order n°: 84

Russian cosm. n°: 41


Personal data:

Birthdate:  16.08.1939
Birthplace:  Komsomolsk-na-Amurye / Khabarovsk Kray / RUSSIA
Marital status:  married
Children:  three
Selection date:  27.03.1973
Job:  Flight engineer
Status:  Ret. 02.06.1998

 

Spaceflights:

Ord.
num.
Startup
spacecraft
Date and
time of
launch (UT)
Status while
launch
Spacecraft
of landing
Date and
time of
landing (UT)
Duration
1 Soyuz-25 02h.40m.35s.
Oct 09, 1977
FE Soyuz-25 03h.25m.20s.
Oct 11, 1977
2d.00h.44m.45s.
2 Soyuz-32 11h.53m.49s.
Feb 25, 1979
FE
PE-3/SLT6
Soyuz-34 12h.29m.26s.
Aug 19, 1979
175d.00h.35m.37s.
3 Soyuz-35 13h.38m.22s.
Apr 09, 1980
FE
PE-4/SLT6
Soyuz-37 09h.49m.57s.
Oct 11, 1980
184d.20h.11m.35s.
4 STS-91 22h.06m.24s.
Jun 02, 1998
MS
VE-24/MIR
STS-91 18h.01m.25s.
Jun 12, 1998
9d.19h.55m.01s.
Total duration: 371d.17h.26m.58s.


EVA's:

Date of
beginning
Time (UT) of
beginning
Duration Explanation
Aug 15, 1979 14:16 1:23 beginning of EVA (Lyakhov,   Ryumin  ); station "Salyut-6" 
Total: 1h.23m. EVAs: 1

Additional information

Graduated from Kaliningrad Mechanical Engineering Technical College, 1958; graduated from the Department of Electronics and Computing Technology of the Moscow Forestry Engineering Institute (especially in Spacecraft Control Systems); was selected as cosmonaut on 27.03.1973 (TsKBEM-3); Deputy Director, NPOE; from 1981 to 1989 he was flight director for the Salyut-7 space station and the Mir space station; divorced and subsequently remarried to cosmonaut Yelena Kondakova; retired on 28.10.1987; hobbies: Tennis, hunting, angling, walking trough forests, travel; reactivated for the STS-91-mission.

Ref: #16, #21 - update: 29.04.07