Gennady Ivanovich Padalka
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| Country: | Russia |
| Organization: | Roscosmos |
| selected on | January 25, 1989 |
| Calls: | 5 space flights |
| Start of the first space flight: |
August 13, 1998 |
| Landing of the last space flight: |
September 12, 2015 |
| Time in space: | 878d 11h 31min |
| EVA inserts: | 8th |
| EVA total duration: | 37h 55min |
| retired on | April 28, 2017 |
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Gennady Ivanovich Padalka ( Russian Геннадий Иванович Падалка , scientific transliteration Gennadij Ivanovič Padalka ; born June 21, 1958 in Krasnodar , Russian SFSR , Soviet Union ) is a Russian cosmonaut . On five missions, he was in space for 878 days (i.e. more than two years and four months), making him the space traveler who has spent the longest time in space (as of June 4, 2018).
Training and military service
In 1979, Padalka graduated from the Komarov Air Force Academy in Yeisk in the field of "leadership tactical bomb fighter pilots " (Russian: Командно-тактическая истребительно-бомбардицявявч . He is a 1st class military pilot with over 1,500 hours of flight experience and has been promoted to the rank of Colonel in the Air Force. Padalka is a paratrooper trainer for the Air Force, has completed more than 500 jumps and is qualified as a diving officer.
In 1994 he graduated from the UNESCO International Teaching Systems Center at the Institute of Aerospace Ecology at the State Oil and Gas Academy. Degree: Master of Science (Ecological Management), Environmental Engineer.
In 2009 he graduated from the Russian Academy of Public Administration under the President of the Russian Federation, majoring in "State and Local Administration" with a specialization in "State Administration and National Security."
Astronaut activity
After being selected as a space pilot, Padalka took part in basic training at the Juri Gagarin cosmonaut training center from June 1989 to January 1991 , at the end of which he was appointed test cosmonaut. From August 1996 Padalka trained as commander of the reserve team for a possible stay on board the Mir space station . He was the substitute for Anatoly Solowjow , who took off into space on August 5, 1997 as a member of the Mir EO-24 long-term crew and stayed in the space station for half a year.
From June 1999 to July 2000 Padalka was trained to lead a possible emergency mission "ISS-1R" (ISS rescue mission) to the International Space Station (ISS). In case of failure of the automatic docking maneuver of the service module Swesda with the I-module Sarja the crew should start at an early stage to perform manually to the docking.
From December 2000 to January 2004 he trained as the commander of the replacement crew of the ISS expedition 4 , as the commander of the replacement crew VC-3 (English: visiting crew VC) on the ISS, as the commander of the replacement crew of the ISS expedition 9 , and as a commander the main crew of the ISS expedition 10 .
Me EO-26
After a ten-month preparation phase, Padalka took off on August 13, 1998 on board the Soyuz TM-28 spacecraft for its first space flight. As the commander of the regular crew Mir EO-26 , Padalka spent 199 days in space together with the flight engineer Sergei Avdejew . During the mission, Padalka undertook an almost six-hour room exit , which was used to assemble scientific experiments from Japan and France. In addition, Padalka and Awdejew supervised an extensive research program with international experiments. On February 28, 1999, Padalka returned to Earth with the first Slovak cosmonaut Ivan Bella , while Avdejew continued his stay on board the Mir.
After the Columbia disaster in February 2003, the crews of the flight crews and the ISS flight program were reallocated. After some restructuring of the crew members, the decision was made in January 2004 to appoint the substitute crew of ISS Expedition 9 as the main crew and thus deploy it as the main crew of ISS Expedition 9.
ISS expedition 9
In March 2002, Padalka was given command of the ninth long-term crew of the International Space Station. From January 2004 Padalka trained as the commander of the main crew of the ISS Expedition-9. He launched on April 19, 2004 on board the Soyuz TMA-4 spacecraft together with the American Mike Fincke and the Dutch science astronaut André Kuipers . Padalka, who spent 188 days at the station with Fincke, was primarily concerned with the 42 Russian research experiments on board the ISS. In addition, he did routine maintenance work to maintain the station. During the ISS expedition 9 a total of four space exits were undertaken; the first spacecraft on June 24, 2004 had to be canceled after 14 minutes due to problems with the Orlan space suit . The subsequent room exits were mainly used to install docking aids for the new European space freighter ATV . Padalka returned to earth on October 14, 2004 together with Fincke and the Russian test cosmonaut Yuri Schargin .
From May to October 2008 he trained as the commander of the replacement crew of the ISS Expedition 18 and as the commander of the Soyuz TMA spacecraft .
ISS expeditions 19/20
In November 2008, Padalka was appointed commander of the ISS's first six-person crew .
From October 2008 to March 2009 Padalka trained as commander of the regular crew of the ISS expedition 19/20 and as commander of the spaceship “Soyuz TMA”.
The launch of the spaceship Soyuz TMA-14 as part of the Expedition 19 took place on March 26, 2009. On June 5, 2009 led Padalka a spacewalk from where he and Michael Barratt passive antennas for the course -Dockingsystem on Zvezda -Module attached. A second exit took place on June 10th and lasted 12 minutes. He and Barratt removed a cover in the Zvezda module docking system. Both exits were necessary for the docking of the Russian Poisk module, which arrived at the ISS in November 2009. Padalka handed over the command of the ISS to the Belgian Frank De Winne and returned on October 11, 2009 together with Barratt and the space tourist Guy Laliberté with Soyuz TMA-14.
The mission lasted a total of 199 days.
From March 2010 to November 2011 he trained as a flight engineer for the replacement team ISS-Expedition 29/30 and as commander of the spaceship "Soyuz TMA".
ISS expeditions 31/32
From November 2011 Padalka trained as a flight engineer for the main crew of the ISS expedition 31 and as the commander of the ISS expedition 32 as well as the commander of the spaceship “Soyuz TMA-M”.
Padalka was in command of the Soyuz TMA-04M spacecraft , which launched for the ISS on May 15, 2012. During the ISS expedition 31 he took on the function of a flight engineer and on July 1, 2012, he was promoted to commander of the ISS expedition 32 . On September 17, 2012, he returned to Earth with Soyuz TMA-04M. The total duration of the mission was 125 days. With this flight he moved up to fourth place in the list of astronauts with the longest stay in space , behind the cosmonauts Krikalev , Kaleri and Avdejew .
ISS expeditions 43/44
From September 2013 he trained for a year as a flight engineer for the reserve crew of the ISS expedition 41/42 and as the commander of the Soyuz TMA-M spacecraft . From September 2014 to March 2015 he trained in the main crew of the ISS expedition 43/44 as commander of the spacecraft “TMA-M”, as a flight engineer of the ISS-43 and as the commander of the ISS-44.
On March 27, 2015, Padalka took off for the ISS as commander of the Soyuz TMA-16M spacecraft . There he was flight engineer for ISS expedition 43 . On June 11, 2015, he took command of ISS Expedition 44 . This makes Padalka the first spaceman to become ISS commander four times. In June 2015, Padalka beat Sergei Konstantinowitsch Krikalev's record for the longest total time in space. The mission lasted a total of 168 days.
After five space flights, Padalka was in space for a total of 878 days, 11 hours 29 minutes and 24 seconds, making him the space traveler who has spent the longest time in space. He completed ten spacecraft missions with a total duration of 38 hours 38 minutes, 30 minutes of which were in the so-called "closed cosmos" in the pressureless Spektr module on the Mir space station . Padalka performed the manual docking maneuver seven times .
Training for the sixth flight was started, but Padalka had to resign from the Russian cosmonaut corps on April 28, 2017 due to lack of support and interest in the new record "Over 1000 days in space " from Roscosmos and the Yuri Gagarin cosmonaut training center .
Summary
| No. | mission | function | Space station | Flight date | Flight duration |
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| 1 | Soyuz TM-28 | commander | Me | 1998/1999 | 198d 16h 31min |
| 2 | Soyuz TMA-4 | commander | ISS | 2004 | 187d 21h 16min |
| 3 | Soyuz TMA-14 | commander | ISS | 2009 | 198d 16h 42min |
| 4th | Soyuz TMA-04M | commander | ISS | 2012 | 124d 23h 51min |
| 5 | Soyuz TMA-16M | commander | ISS | 2015 | 168d 05h 09min |
Honors
- Hero of the Russian Federation (April 5, 1999)
- Badge of Honor Flying Cosmonaut of the Russian Federation (April 5, 1999)
- "Golden Star" medal for the Heroes of the Russian Federation (April 5, 1999)
- Russian " Order of Merit for the Fatherland " 4th class (February 23, 2005)
- Russian "Order of Merit for the Fatherland" III. 1st class (April 2, 2010)
- Russian "Order of Merit for the Fatherland" 2nd class (May 22, 2014)
- Medal “For Merit in Space Exploration” (2012), Prize Winner of the Government of the Russian Federation in the Field of Science and Technology;
- Belgian Order of the Crown (Commander) (2011)
- Kazakh Order "Dostyk" II degree of the Republic of Kazakhstan (2015)
- NASA medals “Distinguished Public Service Medal” (2004, 2009, 2012, 2015) and “Space Flight Medal” (2004, 2009, 2012, 2015).
- Roskosmos awards: "Korolev badge", "Gagarin badge" and badge "For international cooperation in space".
- FAI award (Fédération Aéronautique Internationale): Golden “Juri Gagarin Medal”, “De La Vaulx” medal for the world record he set in 2015 for the longest time in space.
Web links
- Short biography of Gennadi Iwanowitsch Padalka at spacefacts.de
- Biography of Gennady Ivanovich Padalka in the Encyclopedia Astronautica (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Katherine Trinidad, Nicole Cloutier-Lemasters: NASA Assigns Space Station Crews, Updates Expedition Numbering. NASA, November 21, 2008, accessed November 21, 2008 .
- ↑ ISS On-Orbit Status 06/05/09 date = 5. June 2009. NASA, accessed June 5, 2009 .
- ^ Russian "Internal" Spacewalk Complete. NASA, June 10, 2009, accessed June 10, 2009 .
- ^ Expedition 31st NASA, accessed on September 17, 2012 (English).
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Padalka, Gennady Ivanovich |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Падалка, Геннадий Иванович (Russian) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Russian cosmonaut |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 21, 1958 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Krasnodar , Russian SFSR |