Valery Grigoryevich Korsun

Valery Korsun
Country:	Russia
Organization:	Roscosmos
selected on	March 26, 1987
Calls:	2 space flights
Start of the first space flight:	17th August 1996
Landing of the last space flight:	December 7, 2002
Time in space:	381d 15h 41min
EVA inserts:	2
EVA total duration:	9h 44min
retired on	September 2003
Space flights
Soyuz TM-24 (1996/1997) Me EO-22 STS-111 / STS-113 (2002) ISS expedition 5

Valery Grigoryevich Korsun ( Russian Валерий Григорьевич Корзун ; born March 5, 1953 in Krasny Sulin , Rostov Oblast , Russian SFSR ) is a former Russian cosmonaut .

education

Korsun completed his pilot training in 1974 and then served in the air force as a pilot, was commandant of a squadron and parachutist (around 400 jumps). In 1987 he graduated from the Gagarin Air Force Academy and was accepted into the cosmonaut squad in March of the same year. In December he began the one and a half year basic training in “Star City” .

Astronaut activity

From September 1989, Korsun trained for a mission with various crews to the Mir space station . From October 1992 he was part of a cosmonaut group preparing for a rescue mission. Between spring 1994 and the summer of the following year he prepared for a long stay in Me.

Korsun received its first mission order for a space flight in October 1995. He stood in for the sick Gennady Manakov and commanded the Franco-Russian mission "Cassiopée", which began in August 1996 with the launch of Soyuz TM-24 . While the French Claudie André-Deshays returned to Earth after two weeks, Korsun and his flight engineer Kaleri stayed at Mir station until the beginning of March 1997.

From January 1999, Korsun headed the cosmonaut department in Star City. In June of that year he was put in charge of a replacement team and he trained for the ISS expedition 3 .

After that, Korsun prepared as commander of ISS Expedition 5 for his second flight. The mission began in early June 2002 aboard the US space shuttle Endeavor with STS-111 . Together with the American Whitson and his Russian colleague Treschew, Korsun worked on board the International Space Station for six months . At the beginning of December 2002 he and his crew were picked up again by the shuttle Endeavor ( STS-113 ) and taken back to earth.

In September 2003, Korsun resigned from active cosmonaut service and has been deputy head of the training center ever since.

Private

Korsun and his wife have a son.

Web links

Commons : Valeri Grigoryevich Korsun  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Short biography of Valery Grigoryevich Korsun at spacefacts.de
• Biography of Valeri Grigoryevich Korsun in the Encyclopedia Astronautica (English)