Dmitri Jurjewitsch Kondratjew

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Dmitri Kondratiev
Dmitri Kondratiev
Country: Russia
Organization: Roscosmos
Call sign: Варяг (Varyag - Varangian )
selected on July 28, 1997
Calls: 1 space flight
Begin: December 15, 2010
Landing: May 24, 2011
Time in space: 159d 7h 18min
EVA inserts: 2
EVA total duration: 10h 14min
retired on July 25, 2012
Space flights

Dmitri Jurjewitsch Kondratjew ( Russian Дмитрий Юрьевич Кондратьев ; born May 25, 1969 in Irkutsk , Russian SFSR ) is a former Russian cosmonaut .

Even in his youth, Kondratiev took flying lessons in an aviation club in Alma Ata . In 1986 he graduated from a high school in Alma Ata, after which he entered a pilot school of the Soviet Air Force . After graduating in 1990, Kondratiev served for several years as a pilot for the Russian Air Force. During this time, Kondratiev flew seven different types of aircraft such as the MiG-21 interceptor and the MiG-29 and Su-27 air superiority fighters . Furthermore, Kondratjew is an instructor for skydiving with more than 150 completed jumps . When he was accepted into the cosmonaut team, he held the rank of colonel .

Astronaut activity

In December 1997, Kondratiev was appointed to the Yuri Gagarin cosmonaut training center in Svyosdny Gorodok near Moscow, where he completed a two-year training course as a test cosmonaut. He was later assigned to the reserve team of the fifth long-term crew of the International Space Station (ISS). He was a replacement for Sergei Treschtschow , who started as a flight engineer for the ISS in mid-2002. According to the original plans, Kondratiev would then act as the flight engineer for Expedition 13 . In the wake of the Columbia disaster , the mission was, however, the European astronaut Thomas Reiter assigned so that Kondratiev from May 2006 to April 2007 as operations director of the Russian space agency 's Johnson Space Center of NASA worked in Houston.

Kondratiev was a member of the support team for ISS expedition 19 , after which he became a substitute for Roman Romanenko as commander of Soyuz TMA-15 and flight engineer of ISS expeditions 20 and 21 in May 2007 .

He also trained for a stay on board the International Space Station. He was originally intended to be the flight engineer for ISS expeditions 25 and 26 , but in October 2009 it was announced that Kondratiev would be the flight engineer for expedition 26 and the commander for ISS expedition 27 . During the preparation of the ISS expeditions 24 and 25 he was a replacement for Soyuz commander Fyodor Yurtschichin .

On December 15, 2010, he took off for the ISS as the commander of the Soyuz TMA-20 spacecraft . On 21 January 2011, he undertook together with Oleg Skripotschka his first spacewalk . On February 16, 2011, he also undertook his second space exit with Skripotschka. The Russian part of the station was further equipped and several experiments were installed or recovered.

With the decoupling from Soyuz TMA-01M on March 16, 2011, Kondratiev took command of the ISS expedition 27 . It ended with the decoupling from Soyuz TMA-20 on May 23, 2011. A few hours later, on May 24, 2011 at 02:27 UTC, Kondratiev landed with Coleman and Nespoli in Kazakhstan.

Web links

Commons : Dmitri Kondratjew  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Позывные экипажей советских / российских космических кораблей. astronaut.ru, October 31, 2010, accessed November 16, 2010 (Russian).
  2. ↑ Katherine Trinidad, Nicole Cloutier-Lemasters: NASA Assigns Space Station Crews, Updates Expedition Numbering. NASA, November 21, 2008, accessed February 4, 2009 .
  3. ^ NASA and its International Partners Assign Space Station Crews. In: Release 09-233. NASA, October 7, 2009, accessed October 13, 2009 .
  4. ^ Expedition 24 Prelaunch Preparations. NASA, June 7, 2010, accessed June 15, 2010 .
personal data
SURNAME Kondratjew, Dmitri Jurjewitsch
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kondratyev, Dimitri Yuriyevich; Кондратьев, Дмитрий Юрьевич (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian cosmonaut
DATE OF BIRTH May 25, 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH Irkutsk , Russian SFSR, Soviet Union