Alexander Mikhailovich Samokutjajew

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Alexander Samokutyaev
Alexander Samokutyaev
Country: Russia
Organization: Roscosmos
Call sign: Тарханы (" Tarchany" )
selected on May 29, 2003
Calls: 2 space flights
Start of the
first space flight: 		April 4, 2011
Landing of the
last space flight: 		March 12, 2015
Time in space: 331d 11h 23min
EVA inserts: 2
EVA total duration: 10h 01min
retired on April 21, 2017
Space flights

Aleksandr Samokutyayev ( Russian Александр Михайлович Самокутяев * 13. March 1970 in Penza , Oblast Penza , Russian SFSR ) is a former Russian cosmonaut .

Military training

Samokutjajew graduated from the Chernihiv pilot school in 1992 as a pilot engineer and flew Wilga 35A , L-13 Blanik , Aero L-39 and Sukhoi Su-24 . He served the Russian Air Force in the Far East military district and can prove 680 flight hours and 250 parachute jumps . His other skills include qualified diving . He was also deputy squadron commander and currently holds the rank of Retired Colonel in the Russian Air Force . From 1998 to 2000 he studied at the Gagarin Military Academy of the Air Force in Monino , after which he was appointed group leader at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center .

Astronaut activity

On May 29, 2003 Samokutjajew was selected as a candidate for the cosmonaut training center, and he completed his basic cosmonaut training in June 2005 with distinction. Extended ISS training took place until November 2008. Since then he has been in training for a long-term stay on the International Space Station , u. a. he was a substitute for Alexander Skworzow as commander of the Soyuz TMA-18 spacecraft to the ISS.

Samokutjajew was a flight engineer on Expeditions 27 and 28 . It took off on April 4, 2011 (local time in Baikonur : April 5) together with Andrei Borissenko and Ronald Garan as commander of the Soyuz TMA-21 spacecraft and landed again on September 16, 2011.

Samokutjajew was nominated as a flight engineer for ISS expeditions 41 and 42 . As commander of the Soyuz TMA-14M spacecraft , he flew to the International Space Station on September 25, 2014. The return to earth took place on March 12, 2015.

For health reasons, Samokutjajew was released from the Russian cosmonaut corps on April 21, 2017.

Honors

Private

Alexander Samokutjajew is married and has one daughter. His hobbies include cars , Canadian ice hockey, and traveling .

Web links

Commons : Aleksandr Samokutyayev  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Позывные экипажей советских / российских космических кораблей. astronaut.ru, March 14, 2011, accessed April 7, 2011 (Russian).
  2. ↑ Aleksandr Mikhailovich SAMOKUTYAEV. RSC “ENERGIA”, March 2014, accessed on September 29, 2014 (English).
  3. ^ NASA and its International Partners Assign Space Station Crews. In: Release 09-233. NASA, October 7, 2009, accessed September 2, 2010 .
  4. ↑ Russia's Soyuz TMA-21 with new ISS crew launched from Baikonur. In: Sputnik News. RIA Novosti, April 5, 2011, accessed April 7, 2011 .
  5. ↑ TASS: Roscosmos excludes three cosmonauts from space team. April 24, 2017. Retrieved April 26, 2017 (Russian).
  6. ↑ warheeroes.ru: Самокутяев Александр Михайлович. Retrieved February 29, 2016 (Russian).
  7. ↑ Decree of the President of the Russian Federation dated February 15, 2016 N 59 “On Awarding the State Awards of the Russian Federation” (Russian)
personal data
SURNAME Samokutjajew, Alexander Michailowitsch
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Samokutyayev, Aleksandr Mikhailovich; Самокутяев, Александр Михайлович (Russian spelling)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian cosmonaut
DATE OF BIRTH March 13, 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH Penza , Soviet Union