Anton Nikolajewitsch Schkaplerow
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| Country: | Russia |
| Organization: | Roscosmos |
| Call sign: | Астрей (" Astraios ") |
| selected on | May 29, 2003 |
| Calls: | 3 space flights |
| Start of the first space flight: |
November 14, 2011 |
| Landing of the last space flight: |
3rd June 2018 |
| Time in space: | 533d 5h 31min |
| EVA inserts: | 1 |
| EVA total duration: | 6h 15min |
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Anton Nikolajewitsch Schkaplerow ( Russian Анто́н Никола́евич Шка́плеров ; born February 20, 1972 in Sevastopol , Crimea , Ukrainian SSR ) is a Russian cosmonaut .
Military training
As early as 1989, Schkaplerow successfully completed his training in a Yak-52 of the Sevastopol aviation club. After graduating from high school in the same year, he began his training at the Chernigov Higher Military Aviation School and graduated in 1994 from the Kachinsk Military Aviation School as a pilot engineer. He then studied until 1997 at the Military Academy for Air Force Engineers in Moscow . Thereafter, it served as a conductive flight instructor in the aerobatic " Небесные Гусары " ( "sky Husaren") of the Russian Air Force in Kubinka where he the training aircraft Jak-52 and Aero L-39 as well as the multi-role fighter aircraft MiG-29 flew. He is also a skydiving instructor and has completed more than 300 jumps himself.
Shkaplerov holds the rank of retired colonel in the Russian Air Force , he retired from military service in August 2012.
Astronaut activity
On May 29, 2003, Shkaplerov was selected as a pilot in the Russian Air Force, and he completed his basic cosmonaut training at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in June 2005 as a test cosmonaut. From April to October 2007, he served as operations manager for the Russian space agency Roscosmos at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. He then trained for a long-term stay on the International Space Station , u. a. he was a substitute for Oleg Kotow and for Alexander Samokutjajew as commander of the Soyuz TMA-17 and Soyuz TMA-21 spacecraft to the ISS.
Schkaplerow was a flight engineer on ISS expeditions 29 and 30 . He started on 14 November 2011 along with Anatoly Iwanischin and Daniel Burbank as commander of the spaceship Soyuz TMA-22 to the ISS, the landing was on April 27, 2012. On February 16, 2012 Schkaplerow undertook together with Oleg Kononenko a spacewalk . In order to prepare for the replacement of Pirs by the new Nauka research module , the cosmonauts relocated the Strela-1 crane with the Strela -2 crane to the opposite, largely identical module Poisk .
As the commander of the Soyuz TMA-15M spacecraft, Shkaplerov flew to the International Space Station on November 23, 2014 with Samantha Cristoforetti and Terry Virts . There he was a flight engineer for ISS expeditions 42 and 43 . Due to the false start of a Soyuz rocket with the Progress M-27M , the start of the detachment was postponed and the landing did not take place until June 11, 2015.
His third space flight began on December 17, 2017. Together with the American Scott Tingle and the Japanese Norishige Kanai , Shkaplerov took off to the ISS as the commander of the Soyuz MS-07 spacecraft . There he worked until February 27, 2018, initially as a flight engineer for ISS Expedition 54 and then took over command of ISS Expedition 55 . The return to earth took place on June 3, 2018.
Private
Anton Schkaplerow is married and has two daughters. His hobbies are sports , traveling , fishing and golf .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Позывные экипажей советских / российских космических кораблей. astronaut.ru, March 14, 2011, accessed September 25, 2011 (Russian).
- ^ Soyuz TMA-22. spacefacts.de, November 14, 2011, accessed on November 14, 2011 .
- ↑ Pete Harding: Soyuz TMA-22 returns to Earth with three outbound ISS crewmembers. NASAspaceflight.com, April 27, 2007, accessed April 27, 2007 .
- ↑ Ralf Möllenbeck & Sascha Haupt: Expedition 30. Raumfahrer.net, September 4, 2011, accessed on February 20, 2012 .
Web links
- Short biography of Anton Nikolajewitsch Schkaplerow at spacefacts.de
- Biography of Anton Nikolajewitsch Schkaplerow in the Encyclopedia Astronautica (English)
- Biography of Anton Nikolajewitsch Schkaplerow at the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center (Russian)
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| SURNAME | Schkaplerow, Anton Nikolajewitsch |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Shkaplerov, Anton Nikolaevich; Шка́плеров, Анто́н Никола́евич (Russian spelling) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Russian cosmonaut |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 20, 1972 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Sevastopol , USSR |