Nikolai Mikhailovich Budarin

Nikolai Budarin
Country:	Russia
Organization:	Roscosmos
selected on	January 25, 1989
Calls:	3 space flights
Start of the first space flight:	June 27, 1995
Landing of the last space flight:	May 4, 2003
Time in space:	444d 1h 25min
EVA inserts:	8th
EVA total duration:	44h 25min
retired on	September 2004
Space flights
STS-71 / Soyuz TM-21 (1995) Me EO-19 Soyuz TM-27 (1998) Me EO-25 STS-113 / Soyuz TMA-1 (2002/2003) ISS expedition 6

Nikolai Michailowitsch Budarin ( Russian: Николай Михайлович Бударин ; born April 29, 1953 in Kirja , Chuvashia ) is a former Russian cosmonaut .

Space flights

Me EO-19

On June 27, 1995, Nikolai Budarin, part of the regular crew Mir EO-19, was the first Russian space novice to fly to Mir on a space shuttle . He returned to Earth on the Soyuz TM-21 spacecraft on September 11, 1995.

MIR EO-25

From January 30 to August 25, 1998 Budarin was a flight engineer for the regular crew Mir EO-25 on the Mir space station.

ISS expedition 6

From November 25, 2002 to May 3, 2003 he was on board the International Space Station as part of ISS Expedition 6 .

politics

In 2007 he was elected to the Duma , the Russian parliament.

See also

• Manned space travel
• List of spacemen
• List of space exits
• List of manned space flights
• List of manned missions to the Mir space station
• List of manned missions to the International Space Station
• Russian space travel

Web links

Commons : Nikolai Budarin  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Short biography of Nikolai Michailowitsch Budarin at spacefacts.de
• Biography of Nikolai Mikhailovich Budarin in the Encyclopedia Astronautica (English)
• Biography of Nikolai Mikhailovich Budarin at the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center (Russian)