Mikhail Borisovich Korniyenko

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Mikhail Korniyenko
Mikhail Korniyenko
Country: Russia
Organization: Roscosmos
selected on February 24, 1998
Calls: 2 space flights
Start of the
first space flight: 		April 2, 2010
Landing of the
last space flight: 		March 2, 2016
Time in space: 516d 10h 01min
EVA inserts: 2
EVA total duration: 12h 13min
retired on 1st December 2017
Space flights

Mikhail Korniyenko ( Russian Михаил Борисович Корниенко * 15. April 1960 in Syzran , Oblast Kuibyshev , Soviet Union ) is a former Russian cosmonaut .

education

After graduating from school, Kornijenko worked in a radio accessories factory in Chelyabinsk from 1977 . In May 1978 he was drafted into the Soviet Army . He served with the parachute troops in Kirovabad , Azerbaijan . From 1980 he was a member of the Moscow militia. He also studied at the Moscow Aviation Institute , where he graduated in 1987. From 1986 to 1991 he worked as an engineer at the space station in Baikonur . From October 1991 to April 1995 he was employed in the private sector.

Astronaut activity

In October 1995 he switched to the space company RKK Energija as an engineer . On February 24, 1998, he was selected as a cosmonaut. He was a flight engineer in the backup team of ISS Expedition 15 (2007) for the flight to the International Space Station with the Soyuz TMA-10 spacecraft .

First space flight

Kornijenko was a flight engineer for ISS Expedition 23 and ISS Expedition 24 . The launch of the Soyuz TMA-18 spacecraft to the ISS took place on April 2, 2010. On July 27, 2010 he undertook his first space exit together with Fyodor Yurtschichin . He landed in Kazakhstan on September 25, 2010.

Second space flight: annual mission

Korniyenko and Scott Kelly spent almost a year on the ISS from March 28, 2015 to test the effects of weightlessness on the human body for a longer period of time. He was the flight engineer for ISS expeditions 43 to 46 . The return to earth together with Kelly took place on March 2, 2016 with the Soyuz TMA-18M spacecraft and its commander Sergei Volkov .

Private

Korniyenko is married and has one grown daughter. In his free time he likes to go mountaineering, for example he climbed Kilimanjaro in 2007 . Like many cosmonauts, Mikhail Kornijenko is a radio amateur with the amateur radio call sign RN3BF.

See also

Web links

Commons : Mikhail Kornijenko  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Katherine Trinidad, Nicole Cloutier-Lemasters: NASA Assigns Space Station Crews, Updates Expedition Numbering. NASA, November 21, 2008, accessed December 17, 2009 .
  2. ↑ Raumfahrer.net: First space exit of the ISS long-term crew 24
  3. ^ Two More Radio Amateurs Join International Space Station Crew. ARRL , March 28, 2015, accessed July 23, 2015 .
personal data
SURNAME Kornijenko, Mikhail Borisovich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Корниенко, Михаил Борисович (Russian spelling)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian cosmonaut
DATE OF BIRTH April 15, 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Syzran , Kuibyshev Oblast , USSR