Andrei Ivanovich Borisenko

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Andrei Borisenko
Andrei Borisenko
Country: Russia
Organization: Roscosmos
selected on May 29, 2003
Calls: 2 space flights
Start of the
first space flight: 		April 4, 2011
Landing of the
last space flight: 		April 10, 2017
Time in space: 337d 08h 56min
Space flights

Andrei Ivanovich Borissenko ( Russian Андрей Иванович Борисенко ; born April 17, 1964 in Leningrad , Russian SFSR ) is a Russian cosmonaut .

education

After successfully completing the Physics and Mathematics School 30 in Leningrad in 1981, Borissenko obtained a degree in flight and control dynamics at the Leningrad Mechanical Institute in 1987. From 1987 to 1989 he worked as a civil engineer in the Soviet Navy .

Working life

He then switched to NPO Energija . Until 1999 he worked in the analysis group for the Mir on- board systems in the flight control center in Koroljow . After that he was shift flight director first for the Mir and later in the ISS program. He was directly involved in the controlled re-entry of Mir in March 2001.

On May 29, 2003 he was selected as a candidate by the cosmonaut department of the Energija group, and he completed his basic cosmonaut training in June 2005 with distinction. An extended space training took place until 2008. Since then he has been in training for a long-term stay on the International Space Station. He was the substitute for Mikhail Kornijenko during his flight as a flight engineer for the Soyuz TMA-18 mission to the ISS.

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

On October 19, 2016, Borisenko took off on his second space flight. Together with Sergei Ryschikow and Shane Kimbrough he flew to the ISS in the Soyuz MS-02 spacecraft . There he worked as a flight engineer for Expeditions 49 and 50 . The landing took place on April 10, 2017.

Private

Andrei Borissenko is married and has two children. His hobbies include fishing, badminton, and road trips.

Web links

Commons : Andrei Borissenko  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ NASA and its International Partners Assign Space Station Crews. In: Release 09-233. NASA, October 7, 2009, accessed August 24, 2010 .
  2. ↑ Flight plan for manned space flights (take-offs and landings). Spacefacts.de, July 24, 2010, accessed January 27, 2010 .
personal data
SURNAME Borissenko, Andrei Ivanovich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Borisenko, Andrei Ivanovich; Борисенко, Андрей Иванович (Russian spelling)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian cosmonaut
DATE OF BIRTH April 17, 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Leningrad , Soviet Union