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Cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko was not approved as the first Deputy Head of the Cosmonaut Training Center due to the fact that he married an american. RIA Novosti reports.
It turned out that the security service of Roscosmos did not agree Y. Malenchenko’s candidacy for the above position, as she involves gaining access to classified information. Supervisor Center confirms the presence of difficulties with the rise of Russian astronaut. According to him, this issue remains unresolved almost year.
In 2003, Malenchenko married while aboard the ISS, on Russian Ekaterina Dmitrieva, who is also a citizen U.S.A. At the same time, the bride herself was on Earth.
Malenchenko in the ranking of astronauts is in second place the duration of orbital flights. In 2016, after a successful spacecraft docking with the ISS, NASA astronaut Timothy Copra called Malenchenko “the best commander.” The astronaut from Britain, declaring no doubt that the dock will be performed at a high level.
Andrey Vetrov
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