Valery Ivanovich Tokarev

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Valery Tokarev
Valery Tokarev
Country: Russia
Organization: Roscosmos
selected on January 30, 1993
Calls: 2 space flights
Start of the
first space flight: 		May 27, 1999
Landing of the
last space flight: 		April 8, 2006
Time in space: 199d 15h 6min
EVA inserts: 2
EVA total duration: 11h 5min
retired on June 10, 2008
Space flights

Valeri Ivanovich Tokarev ( Russian Валерий Иванович Токарев , scientific transliteration Valerij Ivanovič Tokarev ; born October 29, 1952 in Kapustin Jar , Astrakhan Oblast , Russian SFSR ) is a former Russian cosmonaut .

He is a colonel in the Russian Air Force and a test cosmonaut at the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center . He is married and has two children.

Tokarev flew with the space shuttle mission STS-96 from May 27 to June 6, 1999. During the ten-day mission, he and his crew transported four tons of supplies to the International Space Station (ISS) and made them ready for the first permanent crew ISS expedition 1 .

With the flight of the Soyuz TMA-7 on October 1, 2005, he began his service on the ISS as part of the ISS Expedition 12 . He spent almost 188 days on the International Space Station as part of this mission.

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SURNAME Tokarev, Valery Ivanovich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Токарев, Валерий Иванович (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian cosmonaut
DATE OF BIRTH October 29, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Kapustin Yar , Astrakhan Oblast , Russian SFSR , Soviet Union