Sergey Konstantinovich Krikalev
Sergey Konstantinovich Krikalyov
Serial number 212 (67)
Number of flights - 6
The duration of flights is 803 days.
09 h 38 min 31 s.
The number of spacewalks is 8
The duration of work in outer space is 41 hours and 26 minutes.
Status cosmonaut of NPO Energia, 8th set
Date and place of birth: Born on August 27, 1958 in the city of Leningrad, RSFSR.
Education and scientific titles: In 1975, he graduated from the 10th grade of secondary school No. 77 in Leningrad.
At the same time, he received the specialty "chemist analyst laboratory assistant".
Since 1977, he began to engage in airplane sports in the Leningrad DOSAAF Aero Club.
In 1981, he graduated with honors from the Leningrad Mechanical Institute (Voenmeh), Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, specialty "Design and production of aircraft", received a diploma of a mechanical engineer.
Professional activity: From November 1977 to May 1980, he worked as a laboratory assistant, then as a senior laboratory assistant at NIS Voenmekh.
From May to August 1981, he worked as an aircraft technician of the 4th category for the operation and repair of aircraft and engines in the Leningrad City DOSAAF Aero Club.
Since September 1980, he worked in the 111 department of the State Design Bureau of NPO Energia to prepare a diploma project.
Since September 14, 1981, he worked as an engineer of the 111th department of the State Design Bureau of NPO Energia.
He was engaged in the development of instructions for astronauts.
Since September 1, 1982, he worked as an engineer, and since June 1, 1985 as a senior engineer of the 191st department (former 111 department) GKB NPO Energia.
He was engaged in the development of proposals for displaying operator information on the displays of the product 17KS (the Base unit of the "World"), corrected the on board documentation 17K No. 125-2 ("Salyut 7"), developed the on board documentation of the product 11F72 No. 164 (TKS, "Cosmos 1443").
He led the group for the development of instructions for astronauts on the Soyuz T spacecraft (11F732), worked at the MCC as a developer of radiograms, a methodologist for crew actions and on board documentation.
After losing contact with Salyut 7 in February 1985, he worked in a group to develop a method of flight to an uncontrolled station, practiced this technique in the technological crew together with A. Viktorenko.
He took part in the training of astronauts.
On February 5, 2007, he was appointed vice President of the Energia Corporation for manned flights (with the preservation of flight status in the cosmonaut squadron).
After the dismissal of the president of RSC Energia, N. Sevastyanov, and the appointment of a new one, V. Lopota, in June 2007, he was not confirmed as vice president of the corporation, while he retained the position of deputy chief designer.
By Order of the head of Roscosmos No. 97k dated March 27, 2009, he was appointed to the post of head of the Federal State Budgetary Institution "Yuri Gagarin Research and Testing Cosmonaut Training Center".
Shortly before the expiration of the five year contract, I wrote an application for its extension, but the contract was not extended.
In early August 2014, after a long vacation, he started working as the first deputy director of FSUE TSNIIMASH , the main scientific organization of Roscosmos.
His duties included the development of plans for manned flights within the framework of the deep space exploration program.
On March 25, 2016, at a meeting of the Supervisory Board of the State Corporation for Space Activities Roscosmos, he was appointed Executive Director for Manned Space Programs and elected a member of the State Corporation's Management Board.
Military rank: Reserve Major.
Positions in the cosmonaut detachment of NPO Energia: On November 10, 1985, by order of MOM No. 384, he was appointed to the position of candidate for test cosmonauts of the detachment in the 291st department.
On February 20, 1986, he was transferred to the 111th department as a candidate for test cosmonauts.
On February 11, 1987, he was appointed to the position of a test cosmonaut of the cosmonaut detachment in the 111th department .
Since May 25, 1990, Deputy head of the department, test cosmonaut, since April 7, 1992 Deputy head of the department, instructor test cosmonaut.
On March 1, 1999, he was transferred to Department 291 as a test cosmonaut instructor.
By order of the head of Roscosmos No. 44 of March 27, 2009, the instructor of the test cosmonaut of the 1st class was dismissed from his post.
Space training: Passed a medical examination at the Institute of Biomedical Problems (IBMP) and on June 7, 1983 received admission to special training.
On September 2, 1985, by the decision of the GMWC, he was selected for the cosmonaut squad of NPO Energia.
From November 1985 to October 1986, he underwent general space training.
On November 28, 1986, by the decision of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, he was awarded the qualification "test cosmonaut".
From 1986 to March 1988, he was trained under the Buran program as part of a group and in a conditional crew with Alexander Shchukin.
On March 22, 1988, he replaced A. Kaleri, who was suspended from training for health reasons, in the main crew of the Soyuz TM 7 ship.
Until November 11, 1988, he was trained as a flight engineer of the main crew of the Soyuz TM 7 spacecraft under the EO 4/Aragats program at the Mir OK, together with Alexander Volkov and Jean Loup Chretien (France).
He was trained as the first test pilot of the cosmonaut's vehicle (SPK) and was preparing to work with the Kvant 2 module, but the flight program was changed.
The first flight
From November 26, 1988 to April 27, 1989, as a flight engineer of the Soyuz TM 7 and OK Mir spacecraft under the program of the 4th main expedition (EO 4) and the Soviet French Aragats program.
He started together with Alexander Volkov and Jean Loup Chretien (France), landed together with Alexander Volkov and Valery Polyakov).
The flight duration was 151 days.
11 h 08 min 24 s.
From June to November 17, 1990, he was trained as a flight engineer for the backup crew of the Soyuz TM 11 spacecraft under the EO 8 program (and under the Soviet Japanese program) at the Mir OK, together with Anatoly Artsebarsky and R. Kikuchi (Japan).
From December 5, 1990 to April 19, 1991, he was trained as a flight engineer of the main crew of the Soyuz TM 12 spacecraft under the EO 9 program (and the Soviet British Juno program) at the Mir OK, together with Anatoly Artsebarsky and Helen Sharman (Great Britain).
From May 18, 1991 to March 25, 1992, as a flight engineer of Soyuz TM 12 (launch), Soyuz TM 13 (landing), and Mir OK under the program of EO 9 (9th main expedition) together with Anatoly Artsebarsky and EO 10 (10th main expedition) together with Alexander Volkov.
The decision to extend Krikalev's work on EO 10 was made already during his flight.
Call sign: "Ozone 2" / "Donbass 2".
During the flight, he made seven spacewalks: 24.06.1991 lasting 4 hours and 58 minutes; 28.06.1991 duration of 3 hours and 24 minutes; 15.07.1991 duration of 6 hours and 4 minutes; 19.07.1991 duration of 5 hours and 28 minutes; 23.07.1991 duration of 5 hours 34 minutes; 27.07.1991 duration of 6 hours 49 minutes; 20.02.1992 duration of 2 hours and 12 minutes.
The flight duration was 311 days.
20 h 00 min 34 s.
On September 29, 1992, he was selected for the first flight of a Russian cosmonaut on an American shuttle.
From November 5, 1992 to January 1994, he was trained at the Center.
Johnson as a specialist of flight 4 (Mission Specialist) of the crew of the shuttle Discovery under the STS 60 program.
He received a certificate for working with the shuttle manipulator, was trained during flights on the T 38 aircraft as a co pilot.
From February 3 to February 11, 1994, as a flight specialist of the 4 shuttle Discovery STS 60.
The flight duration was 8 days.
7 h 09 min 22 s.
From April 1994 to January 1995, he was trained at the L. Johnson Center as a stand in for V.Titov, the designated specialist of Flight 4 to the crew of the shuttle Discovery under the STS 63 program.
He was trained to work in an exit spacesuit under the ISS assembly program.
During flight STS 63, as well as flights STS 71, STS 74 and STS 76, he was the head of the 1st advisory group of experts of the Moscow MCC in Houston, helped to establish interaction between the Russian and American MCC.
Since May 1995, he has been acting as the deputy flight director of the Mir OK.
After the depressurization of the Spectrum module, it was part of the emergency commission.
On January 30, 1996, he was appointed flight engineer of the main crew of the first expedition to the International Space Station (ISS 1).
The start of the first expedition was originally planned for May 1998.
Since October 1996, he has been training as a flight engineer of the ISS 1 main crew, together with Yu.
Gidzenko and William Shepherd (USA).
Flights of expeditions to the ISS were delayed, and on July 30, 1998, by agreement between the RKA and NASA, he was assigned to the crew of the shuttle Endeavour under the STS 88 program (the first flight to assemble the station, ISS 01-2A).
In September - November 1998, he was trained at the Center.
Johnson as part of the crew of STS 88.
From December 4 to December 16, 1998, as a flight specialist of the 4 shuttle Endeavour STS 88.
During the flight, the American Unity node module was docked to the first Russian ISS module, the Functional Cargo Unit (FGB) Zarya, which was previously put into orbit.
Together with the shuttle commander Robert Kabana, Sergey Krikalev opened the hatch to the ISS for the first time.
Participated in the work on board the ISS.
The flight duration was 11 days.
19 h 17 min 54 s.
From 1999 to October 2000, he continued training as a flight engineer of the ISS 1 main crew together with Yu.
Gidzenko and William Shepherd.
The fifth flight
From October 31, 2000 to March 21, 2001, as a flight engineer of the Soyuz TM 31 spacecraft and the ISS under the program of the 1st ISS main expedition.
He launched on the Soyuz TM 31 spacecraft, landed on the Discovery shuttle STS 102 as a flight specialist.
At the station from November 2, 2000 to March 19, 2001.
The flight duration was 140 days.
23 h 38 min 54 s.
In October 2000, he was appointed commander of the backup crew of the 7th main expedition to the ISS (ISS 7d) together with M. Suraev and Paul Richards (USA).
In September 2001, M. Suraev was replaced by S. Volkov, and in March 2002, John Phillips replaced Paul Richards.
According to this program, the crew was trained until February 2003, when due to the death of the Columbia shuttle, all the crews were reorganized.
The Krikalev crew became the main crew under the ISS assembly program with the launch on the shuttle (flight ULF 1).
It was planned that this crew would go to the station on the first shuttle (STS 114).
However, since the timing of the resumption of shuttle flights was constantly shifting, the crews and flight programs changed again.
Krikalev began training as the commander of the main crew of the 11th expedition to the ISS together with John Phillips.
In October 2004, Italian astronaut Roberto Vittori, the Eneide program, was included in the crew of the Soyuz TMA 6 spacecraft as a participant of a short term visiting expedition.
The sixth flight
It was launched on April 15, 2005 (at 04:46:25 Moscow time) on Soyuz TMA 6 (11F732 No. 216) as the crew commander of the 11th ISS main expedition (ISS 11).
The docking with the station took place on April 17, 2005 at 06:20 Moscow time.
At 08: 46 Moscow time, the crew went on board the station.
During the flight, he carried out one spacewalk:
August 18, 2005 duration of 4 hours and 57 minutes.
The exit began on August 18, 2005 at 19: 02 UTC (23: 02 Moscow time), the return to the station took place on August 18 at 23:59 UTC (August 19 at 03:59 Moscow time).
On October 9, he handed over the duties of the ISS commander.
On October 10, 2005, at 22.44 Moscow time, the hatches of the spacecraft's descent vehicle were closed.
The ship and the station were undocked at 1.49 Moscow time, 9 minutes later than planned.
At 04:19 Moscow time, the ship's engines were switched on for braking.
The soft landing was made at 05: 09 Moscow time, 57 km north east of the city of Arkalyk.
The flight duration was 179 days 00 hours 23 minutes 23 seconds.
In May 2006, by the decision of Roscosmos, CPC and RSC Energia, he was provisionally appointed commander of the TC in the backup crew of ISS 17d and the main crew of ISS 19, together with Maxim Suraev.
In August, by a joint decision of Roscosmos and NASA, he was provisionally appointed a stand in for the commander of ISS 17d and the flight engineer of the Soyuz TMA 12 spacecraft, which is scheduled to launch in April 2008.
On February 13, 2007, the appointment was approved by NASA.
However, in March 2007, he was removed from the backup crew, in which he was replaced by Gennady Padalka.
In 2008, he was provisionally assigned to the backup crew of the 21st expedition to the ISS (ISS 21A).
According to these plans, the main crew should start on the Soyuz TMA 18 spacecraft in March 2010.
This should be the first flight of a new modification of the Soyuz TMA spacecraft (700 series).
However, later (in July 2008), these reports were not confirmed during the unofficial announcement of the lists of future ISS crews.
By the order of the head of Roscosmos dated March 27, 2009, the test cosmonaut instructor was dismissed from his post.
Socio political activity: In December 2007, he ran for deputy of the State Duma of the Russian Federation of the V convocation on the list of the All Russian Political Party "United Russia", regional group No. 81 (St. Petersburg).
Despite the fact that the party overcame the 5% barrier, being the 16th in the list of the regional group, it did not get into the number of deputies when distributing deputy mandates.
Since 2008, he has been the president of the Northwestern Interregional Public Organization of the Russian Cosmonautics Federation.
Honorary titles: Hero of the Soviet Union (Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of April 27, 1989), Hero of the Russian Federation (Decree of the President of the Russian Federation of April 11, 1992), Pilot Cosmonaut of the USSR (1989).
Class: Cosmonaut of the 3rd class (1989.10.16), Cosmonaut of the 1st class (1992.04.07) Instructor cosmonaut test pilot of the 1st class.
Sports titles: Has the 1st category in swimming, candidate for Master of Sports in all around (at the Leningrad championship in 1989).
"Master of Sports of the USSR" in aerobatics (1981).
"Master of Sports of international class" in aerobatics (1986).
"Honored Master of Sports of Russia" (2007).
Sporting achievements: Since 1977, he has been engaged in airplane sports.
In 1980-1981, he was a member of the Leningrad national aerobatics team.
Since 1982, he has been engaged in airplane sports at the V. P. Chkalov Central Aero Club in Moscow.
In 1982, he competed at the USSR Championship for the team of the Central Aero Club and was a candidate for the USSR national team in aeroplane sports.
In 1983, he became the absolute champion of the city of Moscow in aerobatics.
In the final of the Spartakiad of the Peoples of the USSR and the USSR championship, he played for the RSFSR national team, where he took 3rd place in the team and 8th place in the individual competition.
He was a candidate for the USSR national team in aeroplane sports.
In 1985, he performed at the Championship of socialist countries in aerobatics as part of the 2nd USSR national team and was a member of the Russian national team in aerobatics on gliders.
He became a silver medalist of the World Gliding Championship in one of the exercises.
In 1986, he became the champion of the USSR and the European champion in the team competition, as well as the champion in exercise.
In 1997, he became the world champion.
He mastered piloting Yak 18A, Yak 50, Yak 52, Yak 55, Yak 55M, Su 26, Su -29, L 39 aircraft.
He made familiarization flights with an instructor on the MiG 21, MiG 25 and Tu 134.
He received a license of the 2nd pilot of the T 38 aircraft (USA) and flew on it for more than 140 hours.
In 1997, at the First World Air Games in Turkey, he was in the Russian national team of the Russian glider aerobatics team.
He took first place in the team competition, as well as the silver medalist in the individual competition.
In 2001, at the Second World Air Games in Spain, he was the head coach of the Russian national team.
Soviet and Russian awards: Awarded the Gold Star Medal of the Hero of the Soviet Union and the Order of Lenin (Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of April 27, 1989), the Gold Star Medal of the Hero of the Russian Federation (Decree of the President of the Russian Federation of April 11, 1992) and the Order of Friendship of Peoples (Decree of the President of the Russian Federation No. 298 of March 25, 1992), the Order of Honor (Decree of the President of the Russian Federation No. 204 of April 15, 1998, for achieving high sports results in the First World Air Games), the Order of Merit for the Fatherland of the IV degree (Presidential Decree No. 353 of April 5, 2002), the medal "In memory of the 300th anniversary of St. Petersburg" (26.03.2005), the medal "For Merits in Space Exploration" (Decree of the President of the Russian Federation No. 436 of April 12, 2011)
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The sign of the governor of the Moscow region "Thank you" (2013).
Awards of foreign countries: Officer of the Legion of Honor (Legion d'honneur), 1989, France.
He was awarded three NASA medals "For Space Flight" (1996, 1998, 2001), and "For Outstanding Public Services" (NASA Distinguished Public Service Medal, 2003).
Awards of public organizations: The Order "For Diligence for the Good of the Fatherland" (established by the Foundation "For the Good of the Fatherland") (2006).
The Order " Pride of Russia "(established by the Pride of Russia Foundation and positioned as the highest public award of the Russian Federation) (2008).
Honorary Life membership in the Royal Photographic Society (Great Britain) (2009).
Marital status Father Konstantin Sergeyevich Krikalev, born in 1932, an engineer of the Baltic Plant in St. Petersburg, retired.
Mother - Krikaleva (Prokofieva) Nadezhda Ivanovna, born in 1931, head teacher of secondary school No. 10 in Leningrad (St. Petersburg), retired.
His wife is Elena Terekhina, born in 1956, an engineer at RSC Energia.
Daughter Krikaleva Olga Sergeevna, born in 1990
Hobbies Aerobatics, swimming, scuba diving, downhill skiing, windsurfing, tennis, amateur radio (call sign X75M1K).
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