Yury Valentinovich Lonchakov is a Russian former cosmonaut and a veteran of three space missions. He has spent 200 days in space and has conducted two spacewalks. From 2014 to 2017, Lonchakov served as head of the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center.
Lonchakov in 2001
Lonchakov is pictured translating through the passageway between the mid deck and flight deck of Space Shuttle Endeavour.
Yury Lonchakov, Expedition 18 flight engineer, in the Zarya module of the ISS.
Yuri Lonchakov participates in a spacewalk on 23 December 2008.
Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center
The Yuri A. Gagarin State Scientific Research-and-Testing Cosmonaut Training Center is a Russian training facility responsible for training cosmonauts for their space missions. It is in Star City of Moscow Oblast, a name which may refer to the facility itself or to its grounds.
Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center
Cosmonauts training with the Zarya training module in the neutral buoyancy pool of the GCTC
Mir training module
ISS training modules