Valery Ivanovich Tokarev
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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 |
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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.
See also
Web links
- space.kursknet.ru: Vladimir Tokarew ( Memento from December 20, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) (English)
- spacefacts.de: Short biography
- NASA biography in the Encyclopedia Astronautica (English) (English)
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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 |