Alexei Nikolayevich Ovchinin

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Alexei Ovchinin
Alexei Ovchinin
Country: RussiaRussia Russia
Organization: Roscosmos
selected on October 11, 2006
Calls: 2 space flights
Start of the
first space flight: 		March 18, 2016
Landing of the
last space flight: 		3rd October 2019
Time in space: 374d 18h ​​32min
Space flights

Alexei Nikolajewitsch Ovtschinin ( Russian Алексей Николаевич Овчинин ; born September 28, 1971 in Rybinsk , Rybinsk Rajon, Yaroslavl Oblast , Russian SFSR) is a Russian cosmonaut .

education

Ovchinin graduated from secondary school with specialization in music ( piano ) in Rybinsk. He learned to fly at the Rybinsk Aeroclub . Since 2012 he studied at the Faculty of State and Municipal Management of the Vladimir Branch of the Russian Academy of National Economics and Civil Service .

Military career

From 1988 to 1992 Ovchinin was trained as a flight engineer at the Higher Military Aviation Schools in Borisoglebsk and Yeisk . From 1992 to 1998 he was employed as a flight instructor in Yeisk, then until 2003 at the Military Institute for Aviation Krasnodar in Kotelnikowo , Volgograd Oblast. Then he was the commander of a pilot unit of the 70th Independent Test Pilot Regiment for special use " Vladimir S. Serjogin " in the Moscow military district. He flew the trainer aircraft Yak-52 and Aero L-39 and can demonstrate flight time of over 1,300 hours. In 2009 he retired from active military service and in July 2012 as a lieutenant colonel from reserve service.

Activity as a cosmonaut

Ovchinin was selected as a cosmonaut in 2006. He completed the basic cosmonaut training from 2006 to 2009.

In September 2013 Ovchinin took part in the two-week ESA training mission CAVES 2013 . He and his colleagues Paolo Nespoli , Jeremy Hansen , Satoshi Furukawa , Mike Barratt and Jack Fischer worked in the Sa Grutta cave system in Sardinia under conditions similar to those on the International Space Station .

Ovchinin was substitute for Gennady Padalka on the Soyuz TMA-16M flight . He was the commander of the Soyuz TMA-20M spacecraft and flight engineer for ISS expeditions 47 and 48 . The launch date was March 18, 2016. The landing took place on September 7, 2016.

Ovchinin's second long-term stay on the International Space Station should begin in October 2018 . He was supposed to work there initially as a flight engineer for ISS Expedition 57 and take over command of ISS Expedition 58 in December . As commander of the Soyuz MS-10 spacecraft , he took off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome on October 11, 2018 with Nick Hague . However, the spacecraft reached due to a problem at the first stage separation of the Soyuz rocket not to orbit and was forced to land. Ovchinin was able to make up for his flight to the ISS on March 14, 2019 with Soyuz MS-12 due to changes in the crew planning. He took part in ISS Expedition 59 and was then in command of Expedition 60 . On October 3, 2019, he landed with Hague and the short-term ISS visitors Hassa al-Mansuri in the Kazakh Steppe .

family

Ovchinin is married and has one daughter.

Web links

Commons : Alexei Ovchinin  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Светлана ИЗРАЙЛЕВА: РЫБИНЕЦ - КОСМОНАВТ №205. Газета “Рыбинская неделя”, April 13, 2010, archived from the original on September 12, 2013 ; Retrieved June 23, 2015 (Russian).
  2. ↑ Ирина Германова, Андрей Синягин: Гордость вуза - это его студенты. ГТРК "Владимир", June 6, 2012, accessed June 23, 2015 (Russian).
  3. ↑ CAVES 2013: Underground astronaut training in preparation for space missions. ESA, September 13, 2013, accessed June 23, 2015 .
  4. ↑ Планируемые полёты. astronaut.ru, November 28, 2015, accessed December 4, 2015 (Russian).
  5. ↑ NASA: NASA Statement on Soyuz MS-10 Launch Abort. In: NASA Press Release 18-089. October 11, 2018, accessed October 11, 2018 .
  6. ↑ Anatoly Zak: Soyuz MS-12. In: Russian Space Web. Retrieved October 3, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Ovchinin, Alexei Nikolayevich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Овчинин, Алексей Николаевич (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian cosmonaut
DATE OF BIRTH September 28, 1971
PLACE OF BIRTH Rybinsk , Yaroslavl Region , USSR