Oleg Ivanovich Skripotschka

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Oleg Skripochka
Oleg Skripochka
Country: Russia
Organization: Roscosmos
selected on July 28, 1997
Calls: 3 space flights
Start of the
first space flight: 		October 7, 2010
Landing of the
last space flight: 		17th April 2020
Time in space: 331d 12h 30min
EVA inserts: 3
EVA total duration: 16h 41min
Space flights

Oleg Ivanovich Skripotschka ( Russian Олег Иванович Скрипочка ; born December 24, 1969 in Nevinnomyssk , Stavropol Region , USSR ) is a Russian cosmonaut .

Education and professional life

After successfully completing the Physics and Mathematics School No. 28 in Zaporizhia in 1987, Skripotschka studied mechanical engineering at the Moscow State Technical University Bauman until 1993 . He specialized in the construction of aircraft. During his studies he already worked for the space company NPO Energija . He then worked as an engineer in the Group's test and development department.

Astronaut activity

On July 28, 1997, Skripotschka was selected as a candidate by the RKK Energijas cosmonaut department; he completed his basic cosmonaut training in November 1999. This was followed by extended ISS training. He was the substitute for Oleg Kononenko during his flight as a flight engineer on the Soyuz TMA-12 mission to the International Space Station .

Skripotschka served as a flight engineer on ISS expeditions 25 and 26 on a long-term mission . On October 7, 2010, he took off with Alexander Kaleri and Scott Kelly on the Soyuz TMA-01M spacecraft to the ISS and landed again on March 16, 2011.

On 15 November 2010 he undertook together with Fyodor Yurchikhin his first spacewalk . Among other things, a work platform was installed at Zvezda and the contour experiment was dismantled. He undertook his second and third external missions together with Dmitri Kontratjew on January 21, 2011 and February 16, 2011, respectively, during which the Russian part of the station was further equipped and several experiments were assembled or recovered.

Skripotschka started on March 18, 2016 with Soyuz TMA-20M for his second long-term stay on the ISS as a flight engineer for ISS expeditions 47 and 48 . He returned to Earth on September 7, 2016.

His third long-term stay at the ISS began on September 25, 2019. This time he had flown to the space station on board Soyuz MS-15 together with Jessica Meir and Hassa al-Mansuri , the first astronaut from the United Arab Emirates . He initially took part in ISS expedition 61 as a flight engineer and was in command of expedition 62 from February 5 to April 15, 2020 . On April 17, 2020, he returned to Earth with Soyuz MS-15.

Awards

In September 2017 Skripotschka was awarded the Order of Merit for the Fatherland 4th grade.

Private

Oleg Skripotschka is married and has two children. His hobbies include skydiving and bicycle tourism .

See also

Web links

Commons : Oleg Skripotschka  - 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 April 19, 2010 .
  2. ↑ NASA: International Space Station Daily Report , accessed June 10, 2010
  3. ^ NASA, International Space Station Partners Announce Future Crew Members. In: NASA Press Release 14-048. NASA, February 11, 2014, accessed February 13, 2014 .
  4. ↑ Stephen Clark: Live coverage: Space station crew readies for return to Earth . Spaceflight Now, February 6, 2019.
  5. ↑ Expedition 62 to 63 Change of Command Ceremony - April 15, 2020 . NASA video on Youtube, April 16, 2020.
  6. ↑ Decree of the President of the Russian Federation dated September 16, 2017 N 425 "On Awarding the State Awards of the Russian Federation" (Russian)
personal data
SURNAME Skripotschka, Oleg Ivanovich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Скрипочка, Олег Иванович (Russian spelling)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian cosmonaut
DATE OF BIRTH December 24, 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH Nevinnomyssk , Stavropol Region , USSR