Ivan Viktorovich Wagner
| Ivan Wagner | |
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| Country: |
 Russia
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| Organization: | Roscosmos |
| selected on | October 12, 2010 |
| Calls: | 1 space flight |
| Begin: | April 9, 2020 |
| Landing: | currently in space |
| Space flights | |
Iwan Wiktorowitsch Wagner ( Russian Иван Викторович Вагнер ; born July 10, 1985 in Severooneschsk , Arkhangelsk Oblast , Russian SFSR ) is a Russian engineer and cosmonaut . Its first space flight took off on April 9, 2020.
Education and career
Wagner went to school in Severooneschsk. He then studied aerospace engineering at the Baltic State Technical University in Saint Petersburg from 2002 to 2008 , where he obtained a master’s degree.
After completing his studies, Wagner worked as an engineer at the engine manufacturer Klimow , then from 2009 for the space company RKK Energija . In 2010 he became an assistant flight manager in the Russian manned space program.
Activity as a spaceman
On October 12, 2010 Wagner was selected as a member of the new 17th Russian cosmonaut group. Since completing his astronaut training, he has been a test cosmonaut at Roskosmos .
In 2017 he was supposed to fly to the ISS on the Soyuz MS-06 spacecraft and take part in expeditions 53 and 54 there . However, due to delays in the completion of the new ISS module Nauka , among other things , Roskosmos decided to reduce the Russian ISS crew from three to two people. Wagner dropped out of the MS-06 team.
Two years later he was assigned to Anatoly Ivanishin as a substitute for the Soyuz MS-16 mission . Nikolai Tikhonov was to be the commander of the flight . After he sustained an injury, Ivanischin and Wagner moved up into the main crew. Soyuz MS-16 flew to the ISS on April 9, 2020, where Wagner is participating as a flight engineer on Expeditions 62 and 63 .
Web links
- Short biography of Iwan Wiktorowitsch Wagner at spacefacts.de
- Biography at the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center (Russian)
Individual evidence
- ^ Future Space Station Crew Discusses ISS Expedition . AmericaSpace, Jan. 25, 2017.
- ↑ Иван Викторович Вагнер . Biography at astronaut.ru, accessed March 7, 2020.
- ↑ Joseph Navin: Preparations continue amid crew shuffle for Soyuz MS-16 . Nasaspaceflight.com, March 4, 2020.
- ↑ Soyuz MS-16 at spacefacts.de, archived on September 22, 2019.
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| SURNAME | Wagner, Iwan Viktorovich |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Вагнер, Иван Викторович (Russian) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Russian engineer and cosmonaut |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 10, 1985 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Severooneschsk , Arkhangelsk Oblast , Russian SFSR |