Sergei Alexandrovich Volkov
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| Country: | Russia |
| Organization: | Roscosmos |
| Call sign: | Эридан (" Eridanus ") |
| selected on | July 28, 1997 |
| Calls: | 3 space flights |
| Start of the first space flight: |
April 8, 2008 |
| Landing of the last space flight: |
March 2, 2016 |
| Time in space: | 547d 22h 21min |
| EVA inserts: | 4th |
| EVA total duration: | 24h 15min |
| retired on | February 28, 2017 |
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Sergei Alexandrowitsch Wolkow ( Russian Сергей Алекса́ндрович Во́лков , scientific transliteration Sergej Aleksandrovič Volkov ; born April 1, 1973 in Chugujew , Kharkov Oblast , Ukrainian SSR ) is a former Russian cosmonaut . He was in command of the 17th long-term crew of the International Space Station from April to October 2008.
Volkov attended the Air Force Military College in Tambov , which he graduated in 1995.
Sergei Volkov was selected as a cosmonaut on July 28, 1997. He completed his basic training as a cosmonaut by November 1999. His first assignment for a space flight was when he was nominated for the Soyuz TMA-8 replacement team . He was selected to be the commander for ISS Expedition 17 . On April 8, 2008, he took off with Soyuz TMA-12 for the International Space Station , landing on October 24, 2008.
In October 2009 he was nominated for another long-term stay on board the ISS. He worked as a flight engineer on Expeditions 28 and 29 from June to November 2011 on board the ISS. For the maiden flight of the new Soyuz Soyuz TMA-01M in October 2010, Volkov was nominated as a substitute commander.
Volkov made its third space flight on September 2, 2015. As commander of the Soyuz TMA-18M spacecraft , he started for the ISS together with the Dane Andreas Mogensen and the Kazakhs Aidyn Aimbetow . While Mogensen and Aimbetow returned to Earth after a short time with Soyuz TMA-16M , Volkov remained as a flight engineer for ISS expeditions 45 and 46 . The return took place on March 2, 2016, together with Mikhail Kornijenko and Scott Kelly , who had spent almost a year on the ISS. With 547 days in space, Volkov ranks 12th among the most experienced space travelers.
Private
Sergei Volkov is the son of cosmonaut Alexander Volkov . He is married and has one child.
Web links
- Short biography of Sergei Alexandrowitsch Wolkow at spacefacts.de
- Biography of Sergei Alexandrowitsch Volkov in the Encyclopedia Astronautica (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Позывные экипажей советских / российских космических кораблей. astronaut.ru, December 15, 2010, accessed December 25, 2010 (Russian).
- ^ NASA and its International Partners Assign Space Station Crews. In: Release 09-233. NASA, October 7, 2009, accessed October 13, 2009 .
- ^ New ISS Crew Passes Preflight Exams. Roscosmos, September 15, 2010, archived from the original ; accessed on September 20, 2010 (English).
- ↑ spacefacts.de: Astronauts and cosmonauts (sorted according to "total flight time"). April 28, 2017, accessed June 1, 2017 (This list does not yet take into account that Fyodor Yurtschichin and Peggy Whitson have now outperformed Volkov).
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| SURNAME | Volkov, Sergei Alexandrovich |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Во́лков, Сергей Алекса́ндрович (Russian) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Russian cosmonaut |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 1, 1973 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Chuhujiw , Kharkov Oblast , Ukrainian SSR , Soviet Union |