Alexander Alexandrovich Skvortsov

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Alexander Skvortsov
Alexander Skvortsov
Country: Russia
Organization: Roscosmos
Call sign: Утёс (" rock ")
selected on July 28, 1997
Calls: 3 space flights
Start of the
first space flight: 		April 2, 2010
Landing of the
last space flight: 		February 6, 2020, 9:12 am (UTC)
Time in space: 345d 06h 25min
(without current flight)
EVA inserts: 2
EVA total duration: 12h 34min
Space flights

Alexander Alexandrowitsch Skworzow ( Russian Александр Александрович Скворцов ; born May 6, 1966 in Shcholkowo , Moscow Oblast , USSR ) is a Russian cosmonaut . He is the son of the cosmonaut Alexander Skworzow, who left without a mission in 1968.

education

In 1987 he graduated from the Air Force Engineering College in Stavropol . In 1997 he graduated from the Academy of Air Defense Forces , and in mid-2012 he retired from active service as a colonel in the Russian Air Force .

Cosmonaut activity

On July 28, 1997 Skworzow was selected as a cosmonaut, he completed his basic cosmonaut training in November 1999.

Skvortsov was the substitute for Maxim Surayev during his flight as commander of the Soyuz TMA-16 mission to the International Space Station (ISS).

Skworzow was a flight engineer of ISS Expedition 23 and commander of ISS Expedition 24 . The launch of the Soyuz TMA-18 spacecraft to the ISS took place on April 2, 2010. The landing took place on September 25, 2010 in Kazakhstan.

Skworzow worked as a flight engineer for ISS expeditions 39 and 40 . The Soyuz TMA-12M spacecraft took off on March 25, 2014, the coupling could not be carried out as planned after almost six hours due to problems with the spacecraft control, but only took place two days later on March 27. The Russian cosmonaut Alexander Skworzow was on the International Space Station for almost half a year. On September 11, 2014, he landed safely on earth again. In February 2016 he was awarded the Order of Merit for the Fatherland 4th grade.

For his third space flight, Skworzow was originally intended as the commander of the Soyuz MS-07 spacecraft . In March 2017 it became known that he had been withdrawn from preparatory training due to a sports accident and replaced by Anton Schkaplerow . On July 20, 2019, he took off for the ISS as commander of Soyuz MS-13 . Together with Luca Parmitano and Andrew Morgan , he is a member of ISS expeditions 60 and 61 . Soyuz MS-13 landed in Shezqazghan , Kazakhstan on February 6, 2020, 9:12 am (UTC) .

See also

Web links

Commons : Alexander Skworzow  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Позывные экипажей советских / российских космических кораблей. astronaut.ru, October 31, 2010, accessed November 21, 2010 (Russian).
  2. ↑ Cosmonaut Bio: Alexander Alexandrovich Skvortsov. NASA June 2010, archived from the original on March 4, 2016 ; accessed on March 4, 2014 (English).
  3. ↑ Cosmonaut biography: Alexander Skworzow Jr.spacefacts.de, September 25, 2013, accessed on March 4, 2014 .
  4. ^ Günther Glatzel: Soyuz TMA 18 on the way to the ISS. raumfahrer.net, April 2, 2010, accessed March 4, 2014 .
  5. ↑ Thomas Weyrauch: Crew of Soyuz TMA 18 landed. raumfahrer.net, September 25, 2010, accessed on March 4, 2014 .
  6. ^ Günther Glatzel: Soyuz-TMA 12M coupled to ISS. raumfahrer.net, March 28, 2014, accessed on March 28, 2014 .
  7. ↑ Decree of the President of the Russian Federation dated February 15, 2016 N 59 “On receiving the state awards of the Russian Federation” (Russian)
  8. ↑ О космонавтах и ​​астронавтах. Новости космонавтики, accessed December 12, 2017 (Russian).
  9. ↑ Экипажи на подготовке. Центр подготовки космонавтов имени Ю. А. Гагарина, Retrieved May 19, 2018 (Russian).
personal data
SURNAME Skworzow, Alexander Alexandrovich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Скворцов, Александр Александрович (Russian spelling)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian cosmonaut
DATE OF BIRTH May 6, 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH Shcholkovo , Moscow Oblast , USSR