Yuri Baturin
| Yuri Mikhailovich Baturin | |
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| Nationality | Russian |
| Born |
12 June 1949 Moscow, Soviet Union (now 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) |
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Yuri Mikhailovich Baturin (Russian: Юрий Михайлович Батурин (born 12 June 1949, Moscow, Soviet Union {now 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.[1][4]
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.[5]
References
- 1 2 http://www.spacefacts.de/bios/cosmonauts/english/baturin_yuri.htm
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ "Mir EP-4". Encyclopedia Astronautica. Retrieved 5 January 2011.
- ↑ http://www.astronautix.com/astros/baturin.htm
- ↑ http://www.spaceref.com/focuson/tito/baturin.html[]