Maxim Viktorovich Surayev
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| Country: | Russia |
| Organization: | Roscosmos |
| selected on | July 28, 1997 |
| Calls: | 2 space flights |
| Start of the first space flight: |
September 30, 2009 |
| Landing of the last space flight: |
November 10, 2014 |
| Time in space: | 334d 12h 11min |
| EVA inserts: | 2 |
| EVA total duration: | 9 h, 22 min |
| retired on | 23rd September 2016 |
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Maxim Wiktorowitsch Surajew ( Russian Максим Викторович Сураев ; born May 24, 1972 in Chelyabinsk , Russian SFSR ) is a former Russian cosmonaut .
Surayev completed his pilot training at the University in Kachinsk in 1994 . He then attended a technical academy of the air force in Moscow , which he left in 1998 with the rank of major . Surayev is married and has one child.
In the parliamentary elections in Russia in 2016 , Surayev was elected as a member of the Duma and then left the cosmonaut corps.
Astronaut activity
He was selected as a test cosmonaut on July 28, 1997. By November 1999, he completed his basic training at the Juri Gagarin cosmonaut training center in Star City . In 2008 he was a member of the backup crew for the Soyuz TMA-12 flight . Surajew was also a substitute for Gennady Padalka , who took off in April 2009 with the Soyuz TMA-14 spacecraft and stayed on board the International Space Station for six months as a member of Expeditions 19 and 20 .
ISS expeditions 21 and 22
Surayev started as commander of the Soyuz TMA-16 spacecraft on September 30, 2009 for the ISS, where he remained on board as a flight engineer for Expeditions 21 and 22 until March 18, 2010.
ISS expeditions 40 and 41
On May 28, 2014 Surayev took off as commander of the Soyuz TMA-13M spacecraft for his second long-term stay on the ISS. He first worked as a flight engineer for Expedition 40 on the space station. On September 10, 2014, with the decoupling of the Soyuz TMA-12M spacecraft, he took command of Expedition 41 . The return to earth took place on November 10, 2014.
Awards
Usually, every Russian cosmonaut receives the " Hero of the Russian Federation " award after his first flight . Surayev was refused this honor twice, only on December 30, 2010 he was awarded. In March 2016 he was awarded the Order of Merit for the Fatherland 4th grade.
Web links
- Short biography of Maxim Wiktorowitsch Surajew at spacefacts.de
- Biography of Maxim Wiktorowitsch Surajew in the Encyclopedia Astronautica (English)
- Biography of Maxim Viktorovich Surajew at the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center (Russian)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Gagarin Research & Test Cosmonaut Training Center: Космонавты Максим Сураев и Елена Серова выбыли из отряда космонавтов. September 26, 2016, Retrieved September 27, 2016 (Russian).
- ↑ Michael Curie, Kylie Clem: NASA Assigns Crews for STS-127 and Expedition 19 Missions. February 11, 2008, accessed November 22, 2008 .
- ↑ A cosmonaut strike threatens in Russia. Welt online, accessed September 8, 2010 .
- ↑ Russian President Dmitry Medvedev Presented Orders, Medals and Certificates Conferring Honorary Titles to More than 40 Russians, Including Famous Cosmonaut Blogger Maxim Suraev. (No longer available online.) Roscosmos, December 31, 2010, archived from the original on January 28, 2011 ; accessed on January 3, 2011 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Decree of the President of the Russian Federation of March 8, 2016 N 104 “On Awarding the State Awards of the Russian Federation” (Russian)
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| SURNAME | Surayev, Maxim Viktorovich |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Сураев, Максим Викторович (Russian) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Russian cosmonaut |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 24, 1972 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Chelyabinsk , Russian SFSR, USSR |