Today, August 16, 2021, celebrates his birthday twice the hero of the Soviet Union, the pilot-cosmonaut of the USSR Valery Ryumin. Valery Viktorovich made four space flight by spending 371 days in space for 17 hours 26 minutes.
Valery Viktorovich Ryumin made his first space flight on October 9, 1977, together with the commander of the ship by Vladimir Kovanek at the KK “Soyuz-25”. The flight program provided for docking with the Salute-6 orbital station and work on its board, but due to the malfunction of the spacecraft, the docking was canceled and the flight was stopped early.
from February 25 to August 19, 1979 V.V. Ryumin fulfilled the second flight into space together with Vladimir Lyakhov (commander) on the Soyuz-32 ship to the Salute-6 orbital complex. At that time, it was the longest 175-day orbital flight, during which, on August 15, 1979, the cosmonauts of Ryumin and Lyakhov carried out an unscheduled output into open space, where they were separated by the elements of the antenna of the cosmic radio telescope. The stay of astronauts in the open space space was 1 hour 23 minutes.
On April 9, 1980, Valery Ryumin went to conquer space for the third time. The flight was performed on the Soyuz-35 spacecraft (commander – Leonid Popov) to the Salyut-6 orbital research complex. It was another record on the duration of flight – 185 days, during which the main crew of the orbital station adopted four expeditions of visits, including three – international; He conducted a large amount of different studies, experiments, as well as repair and restoration work.
Fourth flight in space (9 days 20 hours) V.V. Ryumin made from 2 to 12 June 1998 as a specialist of the flight of the Shuttle Discovery STS-91. The program of the space expedition included the 9th (and the last) dock with the orbital complex “Peace”.
Roskosmos State Corporation Guide, Cosmonaut Training Center named after Yu.A. Gagarin, cosmonaut detachment, employees of the CPC congratulate twice Hero of the Soviet Union, the cosmonaut pilot of the USSR Valery Viktorovich Ryumin happy birthday!