Key facts
- Born
- ( 1952-09-27 ) 27 September 1952 (age 73) , Brașov , Romanian People's Republic
- Occupations
- Aviator , engineer , and diplomat
- Spouse
- Crina Prunariu
- Awards
- Hero of the Soviet Union , Hero of the Socialist Republic of Romania
- Time in space
- 7d 20h 42m
- Selection
- 1978 Intercosmos Group
- Missions
- Soyuz 40
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Romania
- Place of birth
- Brașov
- Occupation
- astronaut
- Languages spoken
- Russian
- Military rank
- major general
- Image
- Stamp of Moldova md389.jpg
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- member of
- Romanian Academy
- P450
- Soyuz 40
- Commons category
- Dumitru Prunariu
- date of birth
- 1952-09-27
- name in native language
- Dumitru Dorin Prunariu
- time in space
- 11322
- P10632
- Dumitru Prunariu
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Encyclopedic overview
Dumitru-Dorin Prunariu ( Romanian pronunciation: [duˈmitru doˈrin pruˈnarju] ; born 27 September 1952) is a Romanian cosmonaut. He flew in space aboard Soyuz 40 spacecraft and Salyut 6 space laboratory. He teamed with the Soviet cosmonaut Leonid Popov. The backup crew was made of Romanian candidate cosmonaut Dumitru Dediu and Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Romanenko.
Biography
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Dumitru Prunariu” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.