Editing Roman Romanenko (section)

==Cosmonaut career==
[[File:Roman Romanenko1.jpg|left|thumb|Roman Romanenko inside the Zvezda module of the ISS.]]
Romanenko was selected as a cosmonaut candidate at the [[Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center]] Cosmonaut Office in December 1997. From January 1998 to November 1999 he undertook his basic training course. In November 1999 he was qualified as a Test Cosmonaut.

He served as the backup to [[Oleg Kotov]] as the Commander of [[Soyuz TMA-10]] and [[Fyodor Yurchikhin]] as Commander of [[Expedition 15]].

===Expedition 20/21===
On 27 May 2009 Romanenko was launched into space as the commander of the [[Soyuz TMA-15]] spacecraft from [[Gagarin's Start|Site 1/5]] at the [[Baikonur Cosmodrome]] in [[Kazakhstan]].<ref name="de winne">{{Cite web|url=http://www.esa.int/esaMI/ESApod/SEMTHPRTKMF_0.html |title=Frank De Winne prepares for new mission |accessdate=November 3, 2008 |publisher=ESA |year=2008 |author=ESA |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090603063825/http://www.esa.int/esaMI/ESApod/SEMTHPRTKMF_0.html |archivedate=June 3, 2009 }}</ref> He was part of the [[Expedition 20]] and [[Expedition 21]] crews and was the third second-generation space traveller after [[Sergey Alexandrovich Volkov|Sergey Volkov]] and [[Richard Garriott]]. Romanenko served as a Flight Engineer aboard the ISS during the two long duration missions.

After spending 187 days and 20 hours in space, Romanenko returned to Earth along with astronauts, [[Robert Thirsk]] and [[Frank de Winne]] on 1 December 2009.

===Expedition 34/35===
On 19 December 2012, Romanenko was launched to space on [[Soyuz TMA-07M]] along with [[Chris Hadfield]] and [[Thomas Marshburn]]. He was a part of the crews of [[Expedition 34]] and [[Expedition 35]] aboard the ISS. He served as a Flight Engineer.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Agency |first=Canadian Space |date=2012-06-06 |title=Mission objectives |url=https://www.asc-csa.gc.ca/eng/missions/expedition34-35/about/objectives.asp |access-date=2022-06-09 |website=www.asc-csa.gc.ca}}</ref>

Romanenko returned to Earth on 14 May 2013 spending 145 days and 14 hours in space. 

===First Spacewalk===
[[File:ISS-35 EVA 10 Roman Romanenko.jpg|right|thumb|Romanenko during the first spacewalk of the [[Expedition 35]] mission on April 19, 2013.]]
On 19 April 2013 Romanenko completed his first spacewalk with fellow cosmonaut [[Pavel Vinogradov]], a 6-hour 38 minute EVA to conduct repairs to the ISS.<ref name="spacewalk">{{Cite web| url=http://www.floridatoday.com/article/20130419/SPACE/130419021/Cosmonaut-becomes-oldest-spacewalker | title=Cosmonaut becomes oldest spacewalker | accessdate = April 30, 2013}}</ref>