Russian cosmonaut Valery Ryumin, who launched on four space station missions including the final U.S. space shuttle flight to dock with the former Mir outpost, has died. He was 82. Ryumin's death on ...

Valery Ryumin, 82, a Soviet tank commander who became a cosmonaut and spent more than a year in space, setting endurance records – and then, after 18 years, took another flight, this time on a U.S.

MOSCOWMOSCOW — Veteran Russian cosmonaut Valery Ryumin, who set space endurance records on Soviet missions, then returned to orbit after a long absence to fly on a U.S. space shuttle, has died at the ...