Alexander Yuryevich Kaleri
Alexander Kaleri | |
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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 | |
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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.
See also
Web links
- Short biography of Alexander Jurjewitsch Kaleri at spacefacts.de
- Biography of Alexander Jurjewitsch Kaleri in the Encyclopedia Astronautica (English)
- warheroes.ru: Калери Александр Юрьевич (Russian)
- Biography of Alexander Kaleri at the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center (Russian)
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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 |