Oleg Viktorovich Novitsky

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Oleg Novitsky
Oleg Novitsky
Country: Russia
Organization: Roscosmos
Call sign: Казбек ( " Kazbek ")
selected on October 2006
( ZPK-14 )
Calls: 2 space flights
Start of the
first space flight:
October 23, 2012
Landing of the
last space flight:
2nd June 2017
Time in space: 340d 10h 4min
Space flights

Oleg Wiktorowitsch Novizki ( Russian Олег Викторович Новицкий , born October 12, 1971 in Cherven , Minskaya Woblasz , Belarusian SSR ) is a Russian spaceman .

Astronaut activity

Novizki was selected as a spaceman in October 2006 and completed his training from 2006 to 2009. He was the commander of the Soyuz TMA-06M spacecraft , which launched on October 23, 2012 for the ISS . Nowizki was the first of his training group to go on a space flight.

Nowizki started on November 17, 2016 as commander of the Soyuz MS-03 spacecraft together with NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson and French ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet for his second long-term stay at the ISS. There he worked as a flight engineer for Expeditions 50 and 51 . The return to earth took place on June 2, 2017.

Individual evidence

  1. Позывные экипажей советских / российских космических кораблей. astronaut.ru, June 10, 2012, accessed June 29, 2012 (Russian).

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