Anatoly Alexejewitsch Ivanishin

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Anatoly Ivanishin
Anatoly Ivanishin
Country: Russia
Organization: Roscosmos
selected on May 29, 2003
Calls: 3 space flights
Start of the
first space flight:
November 14, 2011
Landing of the
last space flight:
October 30, 2016
Time in space: 280d 9h 53min
Space flights

Anatoli Alexejewitsch Iwanischin ( Russian Анатолий Алексеевич Иванишин ; born January 15, 1969 in Irkutsk , Irkutsk Oblast , Russian SFSR ) is a Russian cosmonaut .

Military training

After graduating from high school No. 11 in Irkutsk, Ivanishin applied unsuccessfully to the Chernigov Higher Military Aviation Pilot School in 1986 . He then studied aircraft construction for a year at what was then the Irkutsk Polytechnic Institute . The second attempt in 1987 he was accepted at the Chernigov pilot school and graduated in 1991 with a gold medal. He then served in a combat unit of the Russian Air Force in Borisoglebsk , Voronezh region , where he flew the MiG-29 multi -role fighter. From 1992 he served as a leading fighter pilot in the 159th Air Regiment in Petrozavodsk , Karelia . There he flew the Su-27 air superiority fighter during his service .

Ivanishin holds the rank of retired colonel in the Russian Air Force and has more than 550 flight hours and at least 180 parachute jumps . In 2003 he took his final exam in economics , statistics and information theory after a distance learning course at Moscow State University .

Astronaut activity

Ivanishin was shortlisted as early as 1997 , but his candidacy failed due to the strict criteria for Soyuz spaceships at the time ; he was a few centimeters too tall. On May 29, 2003 he was selected as a pilot in the Air Force, he completed his basic cosmonaut training in June 2005 with distinction. In October 2009 he took part in a training course for mini research module 2 in the Baikonur cosmodrome and he trained for a long-term stay on the International Space Station , among other things. a. he was substitute for Dmitri Kondratjew as commander of the Soyuz TMA-20 spacecraft to the ISS. He then replaced Andrei Borissenko as a flight engineer on the Soyuz TMA-21 mission .

Iwanischin started on November 14, 2011 together with Anton Schkaplerow and Daniel Burbank in the Soyuz TMA-22 spacecraft for the ISS. He worked there as a flight engineer for Expeditions 29 and 30 and landed again on April 27, 2012.

Ivanishin embarked on his second long-term ISS mission with Soyuz MS-01 on July 7, 2016 . Initially he worked as a flight engineer for ISS Expedition 48 . He then took command of ISS Expedition 49 and returned to Earth on October 30, 2016.

His third space flight began on April 9, 2020. As commander of the Soyuz MS-16 spacecraft , he took off for the ISS together with Iwan Wagner and Chris Cassidy . There he works as a flight engineer for ISS expeditions 62 and 63 . The return is planned for October 2020.

Private

Anatoly Ivanishin is married and has a son who was born in 1993.

Web links

Commons : Anatoly Ivanishin  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Soyuz TMA-22. spacefacts.de, November 14, 2011, accessed on November 14, 2011 .
  2. Pete Harding: Soyuz TMA-22 returns to Earth with three outbound ISS crewmembers. NASAspaceflight.com, April 27, 2007, accessed April 27, 2007 .
  3. Планируемые полёты. astronaut.ru, November 28, 2015, accessed December 4, 2015 (Russian).