Fyodor Yurchikhin
Russian cosmonaut · Russia · On the map · Astronauts · Born 1959 · age 67
Fyodor Nikolayevich Yurchikhin is a Russian cosmonaut of Pontic Greek descent, engineer and RSC Energia test-pilot who has flown on five spaceflights. His first spaceflight was a 10-day Space Shuttle mission STS-112.
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Fyodor Yurchikhin inside the Quest airlock during the STS-112 mission to the ISS.
Fyodor Yurchikhin holds a garlic planter in the Zvezda module of the ISS.
ISS Commander Yurchikhin pictured with fruit in Zvezda after a Progress resupply arrival.
Yurchikhin, Expedition 24 crew member, working with the Russian bioscience glovebox.
Yurchikhin (bottom row, centre), pictured with the Expedition 37 and 38 crew.Awards
About this person
His second was a long-duration stay aboard the International Space Station (ISS) as a flight engineer for Expedition 15; for this mission he was launched in the Soyuz TMA-10 spacecraft. He has undertaken two further long-duration stays aboard the ISS, as a crew member of Expedition 24 / 25. For this mission he was launched with the spacecraft Soyuz TMA-19, and he landed in November 2010, also with the Soyuz TMA-19 spacecraft. He served as Soyuz commander for his fourth mission aboard Soyuz TMA-09M, as flight engineer for Expedition 36 and ISS commander for Expedition 37. In April 2017, Yurchikhin launched on Soyuz MS-04 for the fifth spaceflight of his career, a six-month mission to the ISS as part of Expedition 51 and 52, for which he was the commander.
