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Sergei Avdeyev

Sergei Avdeyev

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Flight record

3 flights on padside's record, flying from 1992 to 1998, with 6 spacewalks in that span.

3Flights
747d 14hTime in space
1d 18hEVA time
10Spacewalks

Flights count launches with a definitive outcome — the same basis as the Stats page.

Biography

Sergei Vasilyevich Avdeyev (Сергей Васильеви Авдеев; born 1 January 1956) is a Russian engineer and cosmonaut. Avdeyev was born in Chapayevsk, Samara Oblast (formerly Kuybyshev Oblast), Russian SFSR. He graduated from Moscow Physics-Engineering Institute in 1979 as an engineer-physicist. From 1979 to 1987 he worked as an engineer for NPO Energiya. He was selected as a cosmonaut as part of the Energia Engineer Group 9 on 26 March 1987. His basic cosmonaut training was from December 1987 through to July 1989. He retired as a cosmonaut on 14 February 2003. Avdeyev at one point held the record for cumulative time spent in space with 747.59 days in earth orbit, accumulated through three tours of duty aboard the Mir Space Station. He has orbited the earth 11,968 times traveling about 515,000,000 kilometers.

Biography from Launch Library 2.

Background

Born in
Chapayevsk
Education
National Research Nuclear University
Awards
Pilot-Cosmonaut of the Russian Federation; Hero of the Russian Federation; Knight of the Legion of Honour; Medal "For Merit in Space Exploration"; Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", 2nd class; and 1 more

From Wikidata.

Flights

Spacewalks

  • PE-27 EVA 35h 22m1999-07-28
  • PE-27 EVA 26h 7m1999-07-23
  • PE-26 EVA 25h 55m1998-11-10
  • PE-26 EVA 130m1998-09-15
  • PE-20 EVA 229m1995-12-08
  • PE-20 EVA 15h 16m1995-10-20
  • PE-12 EVA 43h 33m1992-09-15
  • PE-12 EVA 35h 44m1992-09-11
  • PE-12 EVA 25h 8m1992-09-07
  • PE-12 EVA 13h 56m1992-09-03

Expeditions

  • Mir EO-20Mir · Flight Engineer1995-09-03 – 1996-02-29
  • Mir EO-12Mir · Flight Engineer1992-07-27 – 1993-02-01

Born 1956-01-01 · age 70