Sergei Wladimirowitsch Kud-Swertschkow

Sergej Vladimirovič Kud'-Sverčkov
Country:	Russia
Organization:	Roscosmos
selected on	April 26, 2010
Calls:	0 space flights

Sergej Vladimirovič Kud'-Sverčkov (Russian: Сергей Владимирович Кудь-Сверчков; born August 23, 1983 in Leninsk, Kazakh SSR , Soviet Union , today Baikonur , Kazakhstan ) is a Russian cosmonaut who has not yet completed a space flight.

Life

From 1990-1996 Kud'-Sverčkov was a student at school number 9 in Mytishchi . In 2000 he graduated from school number 20 in Korolev city . He graduated with honors from Moscow State Technical University, specializing in rocket science.

From August 2006 he worked at RKK Energija, initially as an engineer, then from December 2009 as a senior scientist.

Cosmonaut

Selection and training

On December 19, 2008, at a meeting of the Main Medical Commission (MMC), he was found suitable for cosmonaut training. On April 26, 2010 he was approved as a test cosmonaut candidate for the RSC Energia cosmonaut corps. On November 15, 2010, by order of the head of the cosmonaut training center, he began the year and a half general space training at the Yuri Gagarin cosmonaut training center , which he completed in 2012. On orders from Roscosmos to found a single instead of two different cosmonaut corps, he left the RKK Energia and was transferred as a candidate for the Roscosmos cosmonaut corps on January 22, 2011.In January 2011, he took part in survival training with Oleg Nowizki and Kevin Ford a forest near Moscow. In July 2011 he completed flight training on the Aero L-29 . On November 17, 2011, Chkalovsky began training parabolic flights under zero gravity conditions at the airfield near Moscow, which was carried out on board an Il-76 MDK SL . Before that, he completed theoretical training and familiarized himself with both the technical characteristics and the design of the Il-76 MDK SL. He completed a total of ten of these parabolic flights. On March 13, 2012, he began training in the area of spacecraft operations (EVA) on an underwater model of the ISS. He wore an underwater version adapted to the Orlan-MK space suit . He did three dives. After completing his space training, he was admitted to the state examination, which he passed on July 31, 2012.

Expedition 63/64

In May 2020 he was nominated as a flight engineer for ISS expeditions 63 and 64 . It is scheduled to launch aboard Soyuz MS-17 at the end of 2020 together with Russian cosmonaut Sergei Ryschikow and NASA astronaut Kathleen Rubins .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Центр подготовки космонавтов им. Ю.А.Гагарина. Официальный web сайт. Retrieved May 31, 2020 (Russian). 
2. ↑ Cosmonaut biography: Sergej Kud-Swertschkow. Accessed May 31, 2020 .