Oleg Valeryevich Kotov

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Oleg Kotov
Oleg Kotov
Country: RussiaRussia Russia
Organization: RoscosmosRoscosmos Roscosmos
Call sign: Пульсар (" pulsar ")
selected on February 9, 1996
Calls: 3 space flights
Start of the
first space flight: 		April 7, 2007
Landing of the
last space flight: 		March 11, 2014
Time in space: 526 d, 05h, 04min
EVA inserts: 6th
EVA total duration: 36 h, 51 min
retired on 4th May 2016
Space flights

Oleg Valerjewitsch Kotow ( Russian Олег Валерьевич Котов ; born October 27, 1965 in Simferopol , Ukrainian SSR , USSR ) is a former Russian cosmonaut .

education

From 1982 to 1988, Kotov studied at the SM Kirov Military Medical Academy in Saint Petersburg . After receiving his doctorate, he worked as a doctor at the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center and was selected as a cosmonaut aspirant in 1996.

Cosmonaut activity

Kotow was on the backup team for a flight to the Mir space station with Soyuz TM-28 .

He was selected for the 15th long-term crew of the International Space Station (ISS). As the commander of Soyuz TMA-10 , he took off for the ISS on April 7, 2007. He worked as a flight engineer on board the station for a total of 196 days and landed again on the Kazakh steppe on October 21, 2007. The landing was not entirely problem-free, as the landing point was probably a few hundred kilometers to the west than expected due to a computer error.

Kotow was assigned to his second space flight in November 2008. He was in command of the Soyuz TMA-17 spacecraft , which launched for the ISS on December 20, 2009. There he worked as a flight engineer for ISS Expedition 22 until March 2010 . After taking off from Soyuz TMA-16 , he became the commander of ISS Expedition 23 . The return to earth took place on June 2, 2010.

Kotov's third space flight began on September 25, 2013, when he took off for the ISS in the Soyuz TMA-10M spacecraft together with Sergei Ryazansky and Michael Hopkins and docked there the following day. He first worked as a flight engineer on ISS Expedition 37 and took over command of ISS Expedition 38 on November 10, 2013 . After returning to Earth on March 11, 2014, he was 13th in the ranking of the most experienced space travelers with 526 days in space.

See also

Web links

Commons : Oleg Kotow  - 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 November 22, 2008 .
  2. ↑ Soyuz TMA-17 launches ahead of Tuesday docking with ISS. nasaspaceflight.com, December 20, 2009, accessed December 21, 2009 .
  3. ↑ Astronauts and cosmonauts (sorted according to "total flight time"). spacefacts, March 11, 2014, accessed March 12, 2014 .
personal data
SURNAME Kotow, Oleg Valeryevich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Котов, Олег Валериевич (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian cosmonaut
DATE OF BIRTH October 27, 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Simferopol , Ukrainian SSR, USSR