ISS007-E-16237 (4 October 2003) --- Cosmonaut Yuri I. Malenchenko, Expedition 7 mission commander, looks out a window in the Zvezda Service Module on the International Space Station (ISS). Malenchenko represents Rosaviakosmos.

ISS007-E-16236 (4 October 2003) --- Cosmonaut Yuri I. Malenchenko, Expedition 7 mission commander, looks out a window in the Zvezda Service Module on the International Space Station (ISS). Malenchenko represents Rosaviakosmos.

ISS016-E-010244 (8 Nov. 2007) --- Cosmonaut Yuri I. Malenchenko, Expedition 16 flight engineer representing Russia's Federal Space Agency, tries on an Extravehicular Mobility Unit (EMU) helmet in the Quest Airlock of the International Space Station. Astronaut Peggy A. Whitson, commander, assisted Malenchenko.

ISS016-E-019400 (30 Dec. 2007) --- Cosmonaut Yuri I. Malenchenko, Expedition 16 flight engineer representing Russia's Federal Space Agency, works in the Zvezda Service Module of the International Space Station.

ISS016-E-008976 (2 Nov. 2007) --- Cosmonaut Yuri I. Malenchenko, Expedition 16 flight engineer representing Russia's Federal Space Agency, drinks a beverage in the Zvezda Service Module of the International Space Station while Space Shuttle Discovery (STS-120) is docked with the station.

ISS016-E-010247 (8 Nov. 2007) --- Cosmonaut Yuri I. Malenchenko, Expedition16 flight engineer representing Russia's Federal Space Agency; and astronaut Peggy A. Whitson (partially out of frame), commander; and work with Extravehicular Mobility Unit (EMU) spacesuits in the Quest Airlock of the International Space Station.

ISS007-E-06175 (21 May 2003) --- Cosmonaut Yuri I. Malenchenko, Expedition 7 mission commander, works with the Russian Lada greenhouse in the Zvezda Service Module on the International Space Station (ISS). Malenchenko represents Rosaviakosmos.

ISS007-E-06178 (21 May 2003) --- Cosmonaut Yuri I. Malenchenko, Expedition 7 mission commander, works with the Russian Lada greenhouse in the Zvezda Service Module on the International Space Station (ISS). Malenchenko represents Rosaviakosmos.

S99-07350 (July 1999) --- Cosmonaut Yuri I. Malenchenko, Russian Space Agency (RSA). (Malenchenko was assigned in the summer of 1999 to serve on the crew of STS-106, the second Shuttle-Assembly mission for the International Space Station.)

ISS007-E-05741 (19 May 2003) --- Yuri Malenchenko, Expedition Seven commander, prepares to use a window on the Zvezda service module for Earth observation purposes. Malenchenko represents Rosaviakosmos.

ISS007-E-05457 (15 May 2003) --- Cosmonaut Yuri I. Malenchenko, Expedition Seven mission commander, uses a camera at a window in the Zvezda Service Module on the International Space Station (ISS). Malenchenko represents Rosaviakosmos.

ISS016-E-013934 (30 Nov. 2007) --- Cosmonaut Yuri I. Malenchenko, Expedition 16 flight engineer representing Russia's Federal Space Agency, uses a still camera in the Zvezda Service Module of the International Space Station.

ISS016-E-013936 (30 Nov. 2007) --- Cosmonaut Yuri I. Malenchenko, Expedition 16 flight engineer representing Russia's Federal Space Agency, uses a still camera in the Zvezda Service Module of the International Space Station.

S106-E-5212 (13 September 2000) --- Cosmonaut Yuri I. Malenchenko checks on new work near a hatchway on the International Space Station (ISS). Malenchenko is one of two mission specialists representing the Russian Aviation and Space Agency on the STS-106 mission.

ISS007-E-14283 (1 September 2003) --- Cosmonaut Yuri I. Malenchenko, Expedition 7 mission commander, uses a spoon to catch a piece of food floating freely in the Zvezda Service Module on the International Space Station (ISS). Malenchenko represents Rosaviakosmos.

ISS007-E-14466 (5 September 2003) --- Cosmonaut Yuri I. Malenchenko, Expedition 7 mission commander, sets up a video camera to document a review of one of the Extravehicular Mobility Unit (EMU) space suits in the Quest airlock on the International Space Station (ISS). Malenchenko represents Rosaviakosmos.

ISS007-E-11506 (31 July 2003) --- Cosmonaut Yuri I. Malenchenko, Expedition 7 mission commander, uses a computer as he reads a procedures checklist in the Zvezda Service Module on the International Space Station (ISS). Malenchenko represents Rosaviakosmos.

ISS007-E-14475 (5 September 2003) --- Cosmonaut Yuri I. Malenchenko, Expedition 7 mission commander, works with a torso portion of an Extravehicular Mobility Unit (EMU) space suit stored in the Quest airlock on the International Space Station (ISS). Malenchenko represents Rosaviakosmos.

ISS007-E-14282 (1 September 2003) --- Cosmonaut Yuri I. Malenchenko, Expedition 7 mission commander, is pictured holding a spoon while a package of food floats nearby in the Zvezda Service Module on the International Space Station (ISS). Malenchenko represents Rosaviakosmos.

This crew portrait of Expedition Seven, Cosmonaut Yuri I. Malenchenko, Expedition Seven mission commander (left), and Astronaut Edward T. Lu, Expedition Seven NASA ISS science officer and flight engineer (right) was taken while in training at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia. Destined for the International Space Station (ISS), the two-man crew launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan on April 26, 2003. aboard a Soyez TMA-1 spacecraft.

ISS016-E-010241 (8 Nov. 2007) --- Astronaut Peggy A. Whitson, Expedition 16 commander; and cosmonaut Yuri I. Malenchenko, flight engineer representing Russia's Federal Space Agency, work with an Extravehicular Mobility Unit (EMU) helmet in the Quest Airlock of the International Space Station.

ISS016-E-033799 (27 March 2008) --- Russian Federal Space Agency cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko, Expedition 16 flight engineer, uses a body mass measurement device (BMMD) in the Zvezda Service Module of the International Space Station.

S122-E-009520 (16 Feb. 2008) --- Cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko, Expedition 16 flight engineer representing Russia's Federal Space Agency, is pictured on the middeck of Space Shuttle Atlantis (STS-122) while docked with the International Space Station.

ISS033-E-007419 (25 Sept. 2012) --- Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Aki Hoshide (top) and Russian cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko, both Expedition 33 flight engineers, work in the Zvezda Service Module of the International Space Station.

ISS016-E-021932 (8 Jan. 2008) --- NASA astronaut Peggy A. Whitson, Expedition 16 commander; and cosmonaut Yuri I. Malenchenko, flight engineer representing Russia's Federal Space Agency, work in the Pirs Docking Compartment of the International Space Station.

ISS016-E-028889 (9 Feb. 2008) --- Cosmonaut Yuri I. Malenchenko, Expedition 16 flight engineer representing Russia's Federal Space Agency, works in the Unity node of the International Space Station while Space Shuttle Atlantis (STS-122) is docked with the station.

ISS007-E-05859 (28 May 2003) --- Cosmonaut Yuri I. Malenchenko, Expedition Seven mission commander, works with Extravehicular Mobility Unit (EMU) spacesuits in the Quest airlock on the International Space Station (ISS). Today Malenchenko and astronaut Edward T. Lu (out of frame), NASA ISS science officer and flight engineer, performed an EMU spacesuit fit check and don/doff dry-run. The objective was to check out the equipment and provide the crew with training for preparing for a two-person spacewalk without intravehicular (IV) crewmember support, should it become necessary. Malenchenko represents Rosaviakosmos.

ISS007-E-15471 (26 September 2003) --- Cosmonaut Yuri I. Malenchenko, Expedition 7 mission commander representing Rosaviakosmos, floats through a hatch on the International Space Station (ISS).

ISS007-E-15472 (26 September 2003) --- Cosmonaut Yuri I. Malenchenko, Expedition 7 mission commander representing Rosaviakosmos, works in a Soyuz spacecraft docked to the International Space Station (ISS).

ISS007-E-15484 (26 September 2003) --- Cosmonaut Yuri I. Malenchenko, Expedition 7 mission commander representing Rosaviakosmos, looks over procedures checklists in a Soyuz spacecraft docked to the International Space Station (ISS).

ISS007-E-15485 (26 September 2003) --- Cosmonaut Yuri I. Malenchenko, Expedition 7 mission commander representing Rosaviakosmos, works in a Soyuz spacecraft docked to the International Space Station (ISS).

ISS007-E-17796 (20 October 2003) --- Cosmonaut Yuri I. Malenchenko (foreground), Expedition 7 mission commander, and astronaut Edward T. Lu, NASA ISS science officer and flight engineer, are pictured near one of the hatches on the International Space Station (ISS) as they prepare to welcome the crewmembers onboard a Soyuz spacecraft. The Soyuz TMA-3 spacecraft, carrying astronaut C. Michael Foale, Expedition 8 mission commander and NASA ISS science officer; cosmonaut Alexander Y. Kaleri, Soyuz commander and flight engineer; and European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut Pedro Duque of Spain, docked to the Station at 2:16 a.m. (CDT) on October 20, 2003. Malenchenko and Kaleri represent Rosaviakosmos.

ISS007-E-05254 (3 May 2003) --- Cosmonaut Yuri I. Malenchenko, Expedition Seven mission commander, looks over procedures checklists in the Zvezda Service Module on the International Space Station (ISS). Malenchenko represents Rosaviakosmos.

ISS007-E-08546 (24 June 2003) --- Cosmonaut Yuri I. Malenchenko, Expedition 7 mission commander, works in the functional cargo block (FGB), or Zarya, on the International Space Station (ISS). Malenchenko represents Rosaviakosmos.

ISS007-E-05458 (15 May 2003) --- Cosmonaut Yuri I. Malenchenko, Expedition Seven mission commander, works with the Russian Lada greenhouse in the Zvezda Service Module on the International Space Station (ISS). Malenchenko represents Rosaviakosmos.

ISS007-E-05455 (15 May 2003) --- Cosmonaut Yuri I. Malenchenko, Expedition Seven mission commander, uses a communication system in the Zvezda Service Module on the International Space Station (ISS). Malenchenko represents Rosaviakosmos.

ISS007-E-14441 (4 September 2003) --- Cosmonaut Yuri I. Malenchenko, Expedition 7 mission commander, wearing a Russian Sokol suit, is pictured in the Destiny laboratory on the International Space Station (ISS). Malenchenko represents Rosaviakosmos.

ISS016-E-009981 (9 Nov. 2007) --- Cosmonaut Yuri I. Malenchenko, Expedition 16 flight engineer representing Russia's Federal Space Agency, participates in a session of extravehicular activity (EVA) as construction continues on the International Space Station (ISS). During the spacewalk Malenchenko and astronaut Peggy A. Whitson (out of frame), commander, prepared for the relocation of the Pressurized Mating Adapter 2 (PMA-2) and the subsequent move of the new Harmony node to its permanent ISS home.

ISS016-E-022130 (9 Jan. 2008) --- Cosmonaut Yuri I. Malenchenko, Expedition 16 flight engineer representing Russia's Federal Space Agency, uses a communication system while working in the Zvezda Service Module of the International Space Station.

ISS016-E-022134 (9 Jan. 2008) --- Cosmonaut Yuri I. Malenchenko, Expedition 16 flight engineer representing Russia's Federal Space Agency, uses a communication system while working in the Zvezda Service Module of the International Space Station.

ISS016-E-036365 (17 April 2008) --- NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson (right), Expedition 16 commander; Russian Federal Space Agency cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko, flight engineer; and South Korean spaceflight participant So-yeon Yi pose for a photo in the Harmony node of the International Space Station.

ISS016-E-031242 (6 March 2008) --- Cosmonaut Yuri I. Malenchenko, Expedition 16 flight engineer representing Russia's Federal Space Agency, checks the progress of pea plants growing in the Russian Lada greenhouse in the Zvezda Service Module of the International Space Station.

ISS016-E-023048 (15 Jan. 2008) --- Cosmonaut Yuri I. Malenchenko, Expedition 16 flight engineer representing Russia's Federal Space Agency, uses a communication system while working in the Zvezda Service Module of the International Space Station.

ISS007-E-06446 (7 June 2003) --- Cosmonaut Yuri I. Malenchenko (left), Expedition 7 mission commander, and astronaut Edward T. Lu, NASA ISS science officer and flight engineer, share a meal in the Zvezda Service Module on the International Space Station (ISS). Malenchenko represents Rosaviakosmos.

ISS007-E-06460 (7 June 2003) --- Cosmonaut Yuri I. Malenchenko (left), Expedition 7 mission commander, and astronaut Edward T. Lu, NASA ISS science officer and flight engineer, share a meal in the Zvezda Service Module on the International Space Station (ISS). Malenchenko represents Rosaviakosmos.

ISS007-E-11507 (31 July 2003) --- Cosmonaut Yuri I. Malenchenko, Expedition 7 mission commander, is pictured with the Plasma Crystal Experiment in the Zvezda Service Module’s transfer compartment on the International Space Station (ISS). Malenchenko represents Rosaviakosmos.

ISS007-E-14137 (31 August 2003) --- Cosmonaut Yuri I. Malenchenko, Expedition 7 mission commander, works at the Simvol-Ts workstation in the Zvezda Service Module on the International Space Station (ISS) during the docking approach of the Progress 12 spacecraft. Malenchenko represents Rosaviakosmos.

ISS007-E-06455 (7 June 2003) --- Cosmonaut Yuri I. Malenchenko (left), Expedition 7 mission commander, and astronaut Edward T. Lu, NASA ISS science officer and flight engineer, share a meal in the Zvezda Service Module on the International Space Station (ISS). Malenchenko represents Rosaviakosmos.

ISS007-E-14138 (31 August 2003) --- Cosmonaut Yuri I. Malenchenko, Expedition 7 mission commander, works at the Simvol-Ts workstation in the Zvezda Service Module on the International Space Station (ISS) during the docking approach of the Progress 12 spacecraft. Malenchenko represents Rosaviakosmos.

ISS007-E-06189 (4 June 2003) --- Astronaut Edward T. Lu (foreground), Expedition 7 NASA ISS science officer and flight engineer, and cosmonaut Yuri I. Malenchenko, mission commander, work the controls of the Canadarm2 from inside the Destiny laboratory on the International Space Station (ISS). Malenchenko represents Rosaviakosmos.

STS106-316-031 (8-20 September 2000) --- Cosmonaut Yuri I. Malenchenko (left), drinks a beverage, as cosmonaut Boris V. Morukov, prepares to exercise using an ergometer on the mid deck of the Space Shuttle Atlantis. Malenchenko and Morukov are mission specialists who represent Rosaviakosmos.

ISS007-E-06139 (1 June 2003) --- Cosmonaut Yuri I. Malenchenko (right), Expedition 7 mission commander, and astronaut Edward T. Lu, NASA ISS science officer and flight engineer, share a meal in the Zvezda Service Module on the International Space Station (ISS). Malenchenko represents Rosaviakosmos.

STS106-388-011 (8-20 September 2000) --- Cosmonaut Yuri I. Malenchenko (top), and astronaut Edward T. Lu, both mission specialists, work inside panels in the Zvezda Service Module on the International Space Station (ISS). Malenchenko represents Rosaviakosmos.

ISS007-E-15333 (23 September 2003) --- Cosmonaut Yuri I. Malenchenko, Expedition 7 mission commander, works at the Space Station Remote Manipulator System (SSRMS) or Canadarm2 workstation in the Destiny laboratory on the International Space Station (ISS). Malenchenko represents Rosaviakosmos.

iss016e038957 (3/12/2008) --- Cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko holds the combined signal generation unit with the connected calibrator for the Dykhanie (Respiration) experiment. The Study of the Regulation and Biomechanics of Respiration in Spaceflight (Dykhanie) investigates upper respiratory functions in long-term orbital flight on the International Space Station (ISS) in order to improve the medical monitoring and countermeasures system for future long-duration crew members.

ISS047e001484 (03/05/2016) --- Expedition 47 flight engineer Yuri Malenchenko from Roscosmos is photographed in the International Space Station’s Cupola module preparing to take Earth pictures using a 400 mm lens. The Cupola's 360 degree viewing platform provides optimal views of the Earth below and also contains the control mechanisms for the station’s Canadarm2 robotic arm.

ISS016-E-022540 (13 Jan. 2008) --- Cosmonaut Yuri I. Malenchenko, Expedition 16 flight engineer representing Russia's Federal Space Agency, watches a computer monitor in the Zvezda Service Module of the International Space Station.

JSC2015E053684 (04/30/2015) --- Expedition 44 backup crewmember Cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko (ROSCOSMOS).

Expedition 33 Flight Engineer Yuri Malenchenko of ROSCOSMOS (Russian Federal Space Agency) rest in a chair outside the Soyuz Capsule after he and Commander Sunita Williams of NASA, and Flight Engineer Akihiko Hoshide of JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency), landed their Soyuz spacecraft in a remote area outside the town of Arkalyk, Kazakhstan, on Monday, Nov. 19, 2012. Williams, Hoshide and Malenchenko returned from four months onboard the International Space Station. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

Expedition 33 Flight Engineer Yuri Malenchenko of ROSCOSMOS (Russian Federal Space Agency) is carried to a medical tent shortly after he and Commander Sunita Williams of NASA, and Flight Engineer Akihiko Hoshide of JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency), landed their Soyuz spacecraft in a remote area outside the town of Arkalyk, Kazakhstan, on Monday, Nov. 19, 2012. Williams, Hoshide and Malenchenko returned from four months onboard the International Space Station. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

Expedition 16 Flight Engineer and Soyuz Commander Yuri Malenchenko sits in a helicopter after he and fellow crew members Expedition 16 Commander Peggy Whitson and South Korean spaceflight participant So-yeon Yi landed their Soyuz TMA-11 capsule, Friday, April 19, 2008, in central Kazakhstan. Whitson and Malenchenko completed 192 days in space and Yi 11 days in orbit. Photo Credit: (NASA/Reuters/Pool)

Expedition 16 Flight Engineer and Soyuz Commander Yuri Malenchenko dons his flight suit prior to launch, Wednesday, Oct. 10, 2007, in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. Expedition 16 Commander Peggy Whitson, Malenchenko, and Malaysian spaceflight participant Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at sunset n their Soyuz TMA-11 spacecraft bound for a docking to the International Space Station on Oct. 12. Whitson and Malenchenko will spend six months on the station, while Shukor will return to Earth Oct. 21 with two of the Expedition 15 crewmembers currently on the complex. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

S99-09087 (6 August 1999) --- Cosmonaut Yuri I. Malenchenko, mission specialist representing the Russian Space Agency (RSA), is assisted by suit technicians during an emergency egress training session at the Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory (NBL). Malenchenko will join five astronauts and a second cosmonaut for one of next year's scheduled missions with the International Space Station (ISS).

ISS015-E-34421 (12 Oct. 2007) --- Astronaut Peggy Whitson, Expedition 16 commander, and cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko, flight engineer representing Russia's Federal Space Agency, are pictured during their first hours aboard the International Space Station talking with Russia's Federal Space Agency cosmonaut Fyodor Yurchikhin (partially visible at right), Expedition 15 commander. Whitson served a six-month tour of duty on the space station as flight engineer several years ago, and Malenchenko served a similar tour as commander of an earlier expedition

S99-09091 (6 August 1999) --- Cosmonaut Yuri I. Malenchenko, mission specialist representing the Russian Space Agency (RSA), puts the final touches on his suit donning process prior to an emergency egress training session at the Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory (NBL). Malenchenko will join five astronauts and a second cosmonaut for one of next year's scheduled missions with the International Space Station (ISS).

S106-E-5122 (12 September) --- Astronaut Terrence W. Wilcutt (left), mission commander, and cosmonaut Yuri I. Malenchenko, mission specialist, look over what is basically an agenda for several busy days ahead for readying the International Space Station (ISS) for its first inhabitants. Malenchenko is one of two Russian cosmonauts on the flight. He had joined astronaut Edward T. Lu earlier in the mission for six-plus hours of extravehicular work on the station.

S99-09098 (6 August 1999) --- Cosmonaut Yuri I. Malenchenko, mission specialist representing the Russian Space Agency (RSA), floats in a small life raft following a simulated parachute drop. A diver remains nearby to assist in the training activity. The exercise was part of an emergency bailout training session at the Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory (NBL). Malenchenko will join five astronauts and a second cosmonaut for one of the scheduled missions next year with the International Space Station (ISS).

JSC2000-E-23502 (11 September 2000) --- Cosmonaut Yuri I. Malenchenko, STS-106 mission specialist, completes donning his thermal underwear prior to putting on the outer garment called the extravehicular mobility unit (EMU). Malenchenko, representing the Russian Aviation and Space Agency, was about to spend a period in excess of six hours outside Atlantis along with astronaut Edward T. Lu (out of frame at right).

ISS007-E-07897 (22 June 2003) --- Astronaut Edward T. Lu (at musical keyboard), Expedition 7 NASA ISS science officer and flight engineer, and cosmonaut Yuri I. Malenchenko, mission commander, share a light moment during off-shift time in the Destiny laboratory on the International Space Station (ISS). Malenchenko represents Rosaviakosmos.

ISS016-E-009992 (9 Nov. 2007) --- Astronaut Peggy A. Whitson (right), Expedition 16 commander; and cosmonaut Yuri I. Malenchenko, flight engineer representing Russia's Federal Space Agency, participate in a session of extravehicular activity (EVA) as construction continues on the International Space Station (ISS). During the spacewalk Whitson and Malenchenko prepared for the relocation of the Pressurized Mating Adapter 2 (PMA-2) and the subsequent move of the new Harmony node to its permanent ISS home.

STS106-322-026 (17 September 2000) --- Astronaut Terrence W. Wilcutt (right), STS-106 mission commander, and cosmonaut Yuri I. Malenchenko, mission specialist, in the functional cargo block (FGB) or Zarya on the International Space Station (ISS), work on preparations for undocking between the Space Shuttle Atlantis and the station. Separation took place on September 17, 2000 at 10:46 p.m. (CDT). Malenchenko represents Rosaviakosmos.

ISS007-E-14140 (31 August 2003) --- Cosmonaut Yuri I. Malenchenko (foreground), Expedition 7 mission commander, and astronaut Edward T. Lu, NASA ISS science officer and flight engineer, work at the Simvol-Ts workstation in the Zvezda Service Module on the International Space Station (ISS) during the docking approach of the Progress 12 spacecraft. Malenchenko represents Rosaviakosmos.

ISS007-E-14437 (4 September 2003) --- The Expedition 7 crewmembers, wearing Russian Sokol suits, pose for a crew photo in the Destiny laboratory on the International Space Station (ISS). Pictured are cosmonaut Yuri I. Malenchenko (left), mission commander, and astronaut Edward T. Lu, NASA ISS science officer and flight engineer. Malenchenko represents Rosaviakosmos.

S123-E-008370 (21 March 2008) --- Cosmonaut Yuri I. Malenchenko, Expedition 16 flight engineer representing Russia's Federal Space Agency, uses a computer in the Zvezda Service Module of the International Space Station while Space Shuttle Endeavour (STS-123) is docked with the station.

ISS007-E-08988 (1 July 2003) --- Cosmonaut Yuri I. Malenchenko, Expedition 7 mission commander, is pictured in the Zvezda Service Module of the International Space Station (ISS). The photo was taken by NASA ISS Science Officer and Flight Engineer Edward T. Lu, who was celebrating a birthday at the time.

S123-E-008367 (21 March 2008) --- Cosmonaut Yuri I. Malenchenko, Expedition 16 flight engineer representing Russia's Federal Space Agency, drinks a beverage while working in the Zvezda Service Module of the International Space Station while Space Shuttle Endeavour (STS-123) is docked with the station.

ISS033-E-016098 (25 Oct. 2012) --- In the Zvezda Service Module, Russian cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko, Expedition 33 flight engineer, monitors the rendezvous and docking of the Soyuz TMA-06M spacecraft, bringing NASA astronaut Kevin Ford, Russian cosmonauts Oleg Novitskiy and Evgeny Tarelkin to the space station.

ISS016-E-011453 (20 Nov. 2007) --- Between two Extravehicular Mobility Unit (EMU) spacesuits in the Quest Airlock of the International Space Station, cosmonaut Yuri I. Malenchenko, Expedition 16 flight engineer representing Russia's Federal Space Agency, checks a procedures checklist in preparation for a session of extravehicular activity (EVA).

S123-E-007261 (19 March 2008) --- Cosmonaut Yuri I. Malenchenko, Expedition 16 flight engineer representing Russia's Federal Space Agency, drinks a beverage in the Zvezda Service Module of the International Space Station while Space Shuttle Endeavour (STS-123) is docked with the station.

ISS016-E-022535 (13 Jan. 2008) --- Cosmonaut Yuri I. Malenchenko, Expedition 16 flight engineer representing Russia's Federal Space Agency, pauses for a photo while working in the Zvezda Service Module of the International Space Station.

ISS006-E-50612 (28 April 2003) --- Cosmonaut Yuri I. Malenchenko, Expedition Seven mission commander, is pictured holding a spoon while a can of food floats nearby in the Zvezda Service Module on the International Space Station (ISS). Malenchenko represents Rosaviakosmos.

ISS007-E-11805 (3 August 2003) --- Cosmonaut Yuri I. Malenchenko, Expedition 7 mission commander representing Rosaviakosmos, floats into the Unity node on the International Space Station (ISS).

ISS015-E-34291 (13 Oct. 2007) --- Cosmonaut Yuri I. Malenchenko, Expedition 16 flight engineer representing Russia's Federal Space Agency, works with an incubator in the Zvezda Service Module of the International Space Station.

ISS015-E-34302 (12 Oct. 2007) --- Russia's Federal Space Agency cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko, Soyuz commander and Expedition 16 flight engineer, is seen onboard the International Space Station on docking day.

STS106-319-022 (8-20 September 2000)--- Cosmonaut Yuri I. Malenchenko, mission specialist representing the Russian Aviation and Space Agency, works aboard the U.S.-built Unity node on the International Space Station (ISS).

ISS015-E-34289 (13 Oct. 2007) --- Cosmonaut Yuri I. Malenchenko, Expedition 16 flight engineer representing Russia's Federal Space Agency, works with an incubator in the Zvezda Service Module of the International Space Station.

Expedition 16 Flight Engineer and Soyuz Commander Yuri Malenchenko, second from left, and Expedition 16 Commander Peggy Whitson meet with Russian officials at the foot of the airplane steps after they arrived at Chkalovsky Airport near Star City, Russia, Friday, April 19, 2008. Whitson, Malechenko and Yi landed their Soyuz TMA-11 spacecraft on April 19, 2008 in central Kazakhstan to complete 192 days in space for Whitson and Malenchenko and 11 days in orbit for Yi. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

Expedition 33 flight engineer Yuri Malenchenko, left, is welcomed home upon his arrival in Star City, Monday, Nov. 19, 2012 in Russia. Malenchenko, Expedition 33 Commander Sunita Williams and JAXA flight engineer Akihiko Hoshide landed in their Soyuz TMA-05M earlier that day in a remote area outside of Arkalyk, Kazakhstan. They returned home from four months onboard the International Space Station where they served as members of the Expedition 32 and 33 crews. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

Expedition 33 crew members; Commander Sunita Williams of NASA, left, Flight Engineers Yuri Malenchenko of ROSCOSMOS (Russian Federal Space Agency), and Akihiko Hoshide of JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency), right, smile for photos at the Kustanay Airport in Kazakhstan a few hours after they landed their Soyuz spacecraft in a remote area outside the town of Arkalyk, Kazakhstan, on Monday, Nov. 19, 2012. Williams, Hoshide and Malenchenko returned from four months onboard the International Space Station. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

Expedition 16 Commander Peggy Whitson, bottom, South Korean spaceflight participant So-yeon Yi and Flight Engineer and Soyuz Commander Yuri Malenchenko, top, walk down the airplane steps as they arrive at Chkalovsky Airport near Star City, Russia, Friday, April 19, 2008. Whitson, Malechenko and Yi landed their Soyuz TMA-11 spacecraft on April 19, 2008 in central Kazakhstan to complete 192 days in space for Whitson and Malenchenko and 11 days in orbit for Yi. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

ISS007-E-05876 (28 May 2003) --- Cosmonaut Yuri I. Malenchenko (left), Expedition Seven mission commander, and astronaut Edward T. Lu, NASA ISS science officer and flight engineer, perform an Extravehicular Mobility Unit (EMU) spacesuit fit check and don/doff dry-run in the Quest airlock on the International Space Station (ISS). The objective was to check out the equipment and provide the crew with training for preparing for a two-person spacewalk without intravehicular (IV) crewmember support, should it become necessary. Malenchenko represents Rosaviakosmos.

S106-E-5120 (12 September 2000) --- From the left, cosmonaut Yuri I. Malenchenko, and astronauts Edward T. Lu and Terrence W. Wilcutt float inside the U.S.-built Unity node after entering the International Space Station (ISS) for its first manned visit since May of this year. Wilcutt is commander of the seven-member crew. Malenchenko is a mission specialist representing the Russian Aviation and Space Agency. He and Lu, also a mission specialist, performed six hours of extravehicular work on the exterior of the station earlier in the mission.

Five NASA astronauts and two cosmonauts representing the Russian Aviation and Space Agency take a break in training from their scheduled September 2000 visit to the International Space Station (ISS). Astronauts Terrence W. Wilcutt (right front), and Scott D. Altman (left front) are mission commander and pilot, respectively. On the back row (from the left) are mission specialists Boris V. Morukov, cosmonaut, along with astronauts Richard A. Mastracchio, Edward T. Lu, and Daniel C. Burbank, and cosmonaut Yuri I. Malenchenko. Morukov and Malenchenko represent the Russian Aviation and Space Agency. Launched aboard the Space Shuttle Atlantis on September 8, 2000 at 7:46 a.m. (CDT), the STS-106 crew successfully prepared the International Space Station (ISS) for occupancy. Acting as plumbers, movers, installers and electricians, they installed batteries, power converters, a toilet and a treadmill on the outpost. They also delivered more than 2,993 kilograms (6,600 pounds) of supplies. Lu and Malenchenko performed a space walk to connect power, and data and communications cables to the newly arrived Zvezda Service Module and the Station.

Expedition 7 Commander Yuri I. Malenchenko, foreground and Edward T. Lu, NASA International Space Station Science Officer and Flight Engineer arrive in Baikonur, Kazakhstan, Sunday, April 20, 2003. The crew will be preparing for the launch onboard a Soyuz capsule, Saturday, April 26, 2003. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

Cosmonaut Yuri I. Malenchenko, Expedition 7 commander, enjoys the long bus ride back to the cosmonaut hotel after a busy day at the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Building 254, Soyuz Integration Facility in Kazakhstan, Thursday, April 10, 2003. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

Cosmonaut Yuri I. Malenchenko, Expedition 7 Mission Commander, rests in a chair after landing in the Soyuz TMA-2 spacecraft in Kazakhstan on Monday, October 27, 2003 at 9:41 p.m. (EST). Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

Expedition 16 Flight Engineer and Soyuz Commander Yuri Malenchenko dons his flight suit prior to launch, Wednesday, Oct. 10, 2007, in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. Expedition 16 Commander Peggy Whitson, Malenchenko, and Malaysian spaceflight participant Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at sunset n their Soyuz TMA-11 spacecraft bound for a docking to the International Space Station on Oct. 12. Whitson and Malenchenko will spend six months on the station, while Shukor will return to Earth Oct. 21 with two of the Expedition 15 crewmembers currently on the complex. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

S120-E-006963 (27 Oct. 2007) --- Astronauts Daniel Tani (bottom), Expedition 16 flight engineer; Stephanie Wilson, and Doug Wheelock (second left), both STS-120 mission specialists; cosmonaut Yuri I. Malenchenko, flight engineer representing Russia's Federal Space Agency; and astronaut George Zamka (right), STS-120 pilot, take a moment for a photo on the middeck of Space Shuttle Discovery while docked with the International Space Station.

S120-E-006961 (27 Oct. 2007) --- Astronauts Daniel Tani (bottom), Expedition 16 flight engineer; Stephanie Wilson and Doug Wheelock (center), both STS-120 mission specialists; and cosmonaut Yuri I. Malenchenko, flight engineer representing Russia's Federal Space Agency, take a moment for a photo on the middeck of Space Shuttle Discovery while docked with the International Space Station.

S120-E-006911 (27 Oct. 2007) --- Astronauts Peggy A. Whitson (left), Expedition 16 commander; European Space Agency's (ESA) Paolo Nespoli, STS-120 mission specialist; and cosmonaut Yuri I. Malenchenko, flight engineer representing Russia's Federal Space Agency, work in the Harmony node -- the newest additional to the International Space Station -- while Space Shuttle Discovery is docked with the station.