Andrei Nikolajewitsch Babkin

Andrei Babkin
Country:	Russia Russia
Organization:	Roscosmos
selected on	April 26, 2010

Andrei Nikolajewitsch Babkin ( Russian Андрей Николаевич Бабкин ; born April 21, 1969 in Brjansk , Brjansk Oblast , Russian SFSR ) is a Russian engineer and cosmonaut. Its first space flight is scheduled for the Soyuz MS-17 mission in October 2020 to the International Space Station .

Career

As a graduate of the Brjansk grammar school, Babkin began studying at the Brjansk Institute of Transport Technology and graduated in 1990. In 1995 he graduated from the Moscow Aviation Institute (MAI). From 1997 until he was selected as a cosmonaut, he worked for the space company RKK Energija , first as an engineer, then as a senior scientist. He specialized in spacecraft . (EVA) and headed the search and rescue team for the Soyuz landings. In 2005 he completed the MAI master's degree in "Systems Analysis, Management and Information Processing" and in the following year he received his doctorate in science with a thesis on "Formation of technical and ergonomic requirements for EVA systems on the surface of Mars". In 2006 he took part in the selection of the RKKE 16 cosmonaut group as a cosmonaut, but did not pass the selection for medical reasons.

Activity as a cosmonaut

On April 26, 2010, Babkin was selected as the cosmonaut candidate of the RKKE 17 cosmonaut group by Energija and began training in November of the same year. On January 22, 2011 he switched to the cosmonaut corps of Roscosmos as a space pilot. The two-year training, which ended in July 2012, also included flying lessons on board the L-39 machine , weightlessness training on board the Il-76 MDK and practicing EVAs in the water basin of the Yuri Gagarin cosmonaut training center in Svyosdny Gorodok (Star City), in Russia . In November 2017 he was selected as a flight engineer of the reserve crew of the Soyuz MS-10 mission with Commander Oleg Skripotschka and flight engineer Shannon Walker , but due to the postponement of the start of the Nauka research module , Babkin was removed from the reserve crew. In March 2019 he was nominated as a flight engineer for the Soyuz MS-16 mission together with the commander Nikolai Tichonow and the flight engineer Christopher John Cassidy . He was therefore also designated as a flight engineer for the ISS expeditions 63 and 64 in 2020. Less than two months before the start, however, he had to swap places with his substitute Iwan Wagner because his training partner Tichonow was not fit to fly due to an eye injury.

Web links

• Short biography of Andrei Nikolajewitsch Babkin at spacefacts.de
• Biography of Andrei Nikolajewitsch Babkin in the Encyclopedia Astronautica (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Preparations continue amid crew shuffle for Soyuz MS-16 author = Joseph Navin. In: Nasaspaceflight.com. March 4, 2020, accessed March 6, 2020 (Russian).