Sergei Evgenyevich Treschchow

Sergei Treschchow
Country:	Russia
Organization:	Roscosmos
selected on	March 3, 1992
Calls:	1 space flight
Begin:	June 5, 2002
Landing:	December 7, 2002
Time in space:	184d 22h 15min
EVA inserts:	1
EVA total duration:	5h 21min
retired on	November 30, 2006
Space flights
STS-111 / STS-113 (2002) ISS expedition 5

Sergei Evgenjewitsch Treschtschow ( Russian Сергей Евгеньевич Трещёв , scientific transliteration Sergej Evgen'evič Treščëv ; born August 18, 1958 in Krasnui Kustar , Lipetsk Oblast , Russian SFSR ) is a former Russian cosmonaut .

Education and activity

After finishing school, Treschchev studied at the Moscow Energy Institute until 1982 . He then served for two years as a group leader in a regiment of the Soviet air force . In 1984 he found a job at the space company NPO Energija as an engineer and foreman. There he worked for the analysis and planning of the activities of space travelers on board space stations . He also wrote technical documentation and coordinated the training of cosmonauts together with the Yuri Gagarin cosmonaut training center. His tasks also included supporting the crew with landing and training emergency rescues for the crews of the Mir space station . He also took part in soil tests to optimize the ЭУ367 / 734 life support system .

Spaceman training

In 1992 Sergei Treschtschow was selected for the RKK Energija cosmonaut group and completed basic cosmonaut training until 1994. For the next three years he took part in advanced training.

From June 1997 to February 1998 Treschtschow trained as a backup flight engineer for the long-term Mir EO-25 mission . From June 1999 to July 2000 he then took part in the preparation of the ISS expedition 3 as a flight engineer for the backup crew.

Space flights

ISS expedition 5

The fifth regular crew ( ISS Expedition 5 ) of the International Space Station started on June 5, 2002 on board the US space shuttle Endeavor as part of the STS-111 mission and docked with the ISS on June 7.

Sergei Treschtschow performed an outboard activity during his six-month stay on the space station. He and his colleague Valeri Korsun installed a container on the Sarja module, which was supposed to hold equipment for later exits. They also attached new material samples to the Zvezda module for the materials experiment by the Japanese space agency JAXA . In addition, some fastenings for the safety lines for outboard work and additional radio antennas for amateur radio were installed ( ARISS project).

The fifth ISS resident crew returned to Earth on December 7, 2002 with the Space Shuttle Endeavor as part of the STS-113 mission .

Web links

Commons : Sergei Treschtschow  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Short biography of Sergei Evgenjewitsch Treschtschow at spacefacts.de
• Biography of Sergei Evgenjewitsch Treschtschow in the Encyclopedia Astronautica (English)
• Biography of Sergei Evgenjewitsch Treschchow at the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center (Russian)