Sergei Nikolayevich Ryschikow

Sergei Ryschikov
Country:	Russia
Organization:	Roscosmos
Call sign:	Фавор (" Tabor ")
selected on	October 11, 2006
Calls:	1 space flight
Begin:	19th October 2016
Landing:	April 10, 2017
Time in space:	173d 03h 15min
Space flights
Soyuz MS-02 (2016/2017) ISS expedition 49 ISS expedition 50

Sergei Nikolajewitsch Ryschikow ( Russian Сергей Николаевич Рыжиков ; born August 19, 1974 in Bugulma , Tatar ASSR , Russian SFSR ) is a Russian cosmonaut .

Military activity

As a lieutenant colonel (retired in mid-2012) he was with the 14th Army of the Air Force and Air Defense until his selection as a cosmonaut (headquarters: Novosibirsk , area of ​​responsibility: Siberia).

Activity as a cosmonaut

On October 11, 2006, he was selected as a pilot in the Air Force and a candidate for the cosmonaut training center, he completed his basic cosmonaut training on June 9, 2009 with distinction, after which he was in training for a long-term stay on the International Space Station . He was the substitute for Alexei Ovchinin on the Soyuz TMA-20M flight as commander of the mission to the ISS.

Ryschikow started on October 19, 2016 as commander of the Soyuz MS-02 spacecraft together with Andrei Borissenko and Shane Kimbrough for the ISS. There he worked as a flight engineer for Expeditions 49 and 50 . The landing took place on April 10, 2017.

On the Soyuz MS-16 mission in 2020, Ryzhikov was assigned to replace Commander Anatoly Ivanishin . With the follow -up mission Soyuz MS-17 , it will fly to the space station for the second time in October 2020 to take part in ISS Expedition 64 .

Private

Sergei Ryschikov is divorced and has one son.

Web links

Commons : Sergei Ryschikow  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Short biography of Sergei Nikolajewitsch Ryschikow at spacefacts.de
• Biography of Sergei Nikolajewitsch Ryschikow in the Encyclopedia Astronautica (English)
• Astronaut.ru: biography (Russian)