Alexander Yuryevich Kaleri

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Alexander Kaleri
Alexander Kaleri
Country: Russia
Organization: Roscosmos
selected on February 15, 1984
Calls: 5 space flights
Start of the
first space flight: 		March 17, 1992
Landing of the
last space flight: 		March 16, 2011
Time in space: 769d, 06h, 37min
EVA inserts: 5
EVA total duration: 23 h, 26 min
Space flights

Alexander Jurjewitsch "Sascha" Kaleri ( Russian Александр Юрьевич Калери ; born May 13, 1956 in Jūrmala , Latvian SSR , Soviet Union ) is a Russian cosmonaut .

Alexander Kaleri graduated from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology .

From 1979 he worked for RKK Energija on the development of the Mir space station . He was selected as a cosmonaut in 1984 and flew three long-duration missions to Mir in 1992, 1996-1997 and 2000. Then he formed along with Michael Foale , the ISS Expedition 8 , which of 20 October 2003 to 29 April 2004 at the International Space Station worked.

He was the commander of the Soyuz TMA-01M flight to the ISS (launch on October 7, 2010 23:10 UTC ), and on the ISS he worked as a flight engineer on expeditions 25 and 26 until March 2011.

With 769 days in space, Kaleri is behind Gennady Padalka , Yuri Malentschenko and Sergei Krikaljow in fourth place in the list of the longest total time in space .

In August 1992, Kaleri was awarded the Hero of the Russian Federation by a decree of the then Russian President Boris Yeltsin .

Kaleri is married and has one child.

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personal data
SURNAME Kaleri, Alexander Jurjewitsch
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Калери, Александр Юрьевич (Russian); Kaleri, Sascha; Kaleri, Alexander
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian cosmonaut
DATE OF BIRTH May 13, 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Jurmala