Name: Yuri Vladimirovich Usachev
Personal data: 43 years old, married, one daughter, Zhenya, age 13.
Past life: engineer with Energyia, assigned to groups working on spacewalk training, future space construction, public relations and ergonomics.
Previous spaceflights: two as the flight engineer on Mir, lasting a total of 376 days, and one 10-day shuttle mission to service the space station.
Commander incognito: used his boss’s ham radio call signs on Mir.
Preparation for living in close quarters with other people: shared mother’s womb with twin sister.
Orbital epiphany: “After my first mission, I change my point of view because (being in space) is absolutely unusual. I think if any people have any chance to be in orbit, they can change their point of view for all stuff around them. That's what I think.”
Mother was right: “She is very patient. Now I can understand … it’s very useful for me to have enough patience to live six months in space.”
