Yuri Baturin

Yuri Mikhailovich Baturin
Cosmonaut
Nationality Russian
Born 12 June 1949
Moscow, Russia
Time in space 19d 17h 44m
Selection 1997
Missions Mir EP-4 (Soyuz TM-28 / Soyuz TM-27), ISS EP-1 (Soyuz TM-32 / Soyuz TM-31)
Mission insignia
Awards

Yuri Mikhailovich Baturin (Russian: Юрий Михайлович Батурин (born 12 June 1949, Moscow, Russia), is a Russian cosmonaut and former politician.[1]

Baturin graduated from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology in 1973, and is the former head of National Security; he is also an author in constitutional law.[2] Baturin was also a cosmonaut who flew on two missions.

His first spaceflight, sometimes called Mir EP-4,[3] was launched with the spacecraft Soyuz TM-28 13 August 1998, and landed with Soyuz TM-27. He was a Research Cosmonaut for this mission, which lasted for 11 days 19 hours 39 minutes. His second spaceflight was ISS EP-1, which was launched with the spacecraft Soyuz TM-32 on April 28, 2001, and landed with Soyuz TM-31. This mission was notable as carrying to first paying space tourist Dennis Tito. For this mission he was designated a Flight Engineer; the mission lasted for 7 days 22 hours and 4 minutes.[4][5]

He married Svetlana Veniaminovna Polubinskaya, (born 1954); they had a daughter, Alexandra Yurievna Baturina, (born 1982), a student at the Moscow State Academy of Law.[6]

References

  1. ^ http://www.spacefacts.de/bios/cosmonauts/english/baturin_yuri.htm
  2. ^ Yury Baturin. Studies in Constitutional Law. Moscow: ILPP, 2008, 114 pp, with illustrations [Russian: Батурин Ю. Конституционные этюды. - М.: Институт права и публичной политики, 2008 – 114 с., 80 с. ил.
  3. ^ "Mir EP-4". Encyclopedia Astronautica. http://www.astronautix.com/flights/mirep4.htm. Retrieved 5 January 2011. 
  4. ^ http://www.spacefacts.de/bios/cosmonauts/english/baturin_yuri.htm
  5. ^ http://www.astronautix.com/astros/baturin.htm
  6. ^ http://www.spaceref.com/focuson/tito/baturin.html