Alexander Alexandrovich Missurkin

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Alexander Missurkin
Alexander Missurkin
Country: Russia
Organization: Roscosmos
selected on October 11, 2006
( ZPK-14 )
Calls: 2 space flights
Start of the
first space flight: 		March 28, 2013
Landing of the
last space flight: 		February 28, 2018
Time in space: 334d 11h 29min
EVA inserts: 4th
EVA total duration: 28h 14min
Space flights

Alexander Alexandrowitsch Missurkin ( Russian Александр Александрович Мисуркин Aleksandr Aleksandrovič Misurkin ; born September 23, 1977 in Jerschitschi , Smolensk Oblast , Russian SFSR ) is a Russian cosmonaut .

Cosmonaut activity

From August 2009 to February 2011 he took part in training for the ISS . Since January 2011 he has been training for the ISS-33/34 mission and the Soyuz TMA-M as a flight engineer, as he was assigned to the reserve team for the Soyuz TMA-06M mission .

Alexander Missurkin at an EVA

Missurkin set out for his first long-term flight on March 28, 2013. He flew to the ISS on the Soyuz TMA-08M spacecraft . He worked there as a flight engineer for ISS expeditions 35 and 36 . On June 24, 2013 Missurkin undertook his first spacewalk with Fyodor Yurchikhin . The two were performing maintenance on the cooling system of the Russian segment of the ISS. They also installed brackets for power cables for the future Nauka module . Missurkin and Yurchichin also brought two scientific experiments back to the ISS and installed a new one on the exterior of the station. He returned to Earth on September 11, 2013. In August 2016, he was honored as Hero of the Russian Federation and Aviator Cosmonaut of the Russian Federation .

On September 12, 2017, Missurkin started on its second mission as commander of the Soyuz MS-06 spacecraft . Together with Mark Vande Hei and Joseph Acaba , he initially belonged to the ISS expedition 53 . On December 14th, he took command of Expedition 54 . The landing together with Vande Hei and Acaba took place on February 28, 2018.

Life

Alexander Missurkin is married and has two children.

See also

Web links

Commons : Alexander Missurkin  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Programs in Progress. In: ESA Bulletin No. 157 February 2014, accessed on May 25, 2016 .
  2. ↑ FGB-2 / MLM. Russian Space Web, January 19, 2017, accessed March 22, 2017 .
  3. ^ Anatoly Zak: Russian engineers tackle problems with the MLM Nauka module. a: The launch of the MLM module advanced to 2018 or b: MLM launch schedule gets official OK . In: russianspaceweb.com. Anatoly Zak, December 12, 2017, accessed January 9, 2018 .
  4. ^ Cosmonauts Complete Spacewalk to Prepare Station for New Russian Lab. NASA, June 24, 2013, accessed June 28, 2013 .
  5. ↑ Decree of the President of the Russian Federation of August 26, 2016 N 432 “On receiving the state awards of the Russian Federation” (Russian, publication.pravo.gov.ru ).
personal data
SURNAME Missurkin, Alexander Alexandrovich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Мисуркин, Александр Александрович (Russian spelling)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian spaceman
DATE OF BIRTH 23rd September 1977
PLACE OF BIRTH Yershichi , Russian SFSR