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Sergei Vasilyevich Avdeyev Russian Engineer Cosmonaut. Born 1956. Record total time (747 days) spent in space until record beaten in 2005. Ten spacewalks.

Personal: Male, Married, Two children. Born in Chapaevsk, Samara, Russia. Korolev Design Bureau Civilian Engineer, Energia NPO

Astronaut Career

Astronaut Group: Energia Engineer Group 9 - 1987. Inactive Entered space service: 26 March 1987. Left space service: 14 February 2003. Number of Flights: 3.00. Total Time: 747.59 days. Number of EVAs: 10. Total EVA Time: 1.75 days.

Avdeyev Spaceflight Log

  • 27 July 1992 Flight: Mir EO-12. Flight Up: Soyuz TM-15. Flight Back: Soyuz TM-15. Flight Time: 188.90 days.
  • 3 September 1995 Flight: Mir EO-20. Flight Up: Soyuz TM-22. Flight Back: Soyuz TM-22. Flight Time: 179.07 days.
  • 13 August 1998 Flight: Mir EO-26/-27. Flight Up: Soyuz TM-28. Flight Back: Soyuz TM-29. Flight Time: 379.62 days.
Avdeyev Chronology

26 March 1987 - Energia Engineer Cosmonaut Training Group 9 selected..

1991 August - Soyuz TM-13A (cancelled). Soyuz TM-13 and TM-14 crews were reshuffled extensively due to commercial considerations and necessity of flying a Kazakh cosmonaut. This was the original crew assignment. Kaleri and Avdeyev were replaced by Kazakh researchers in the final crew.
1991 End - Soyuz TM-14A (cancelled). Soyuz TM-13 and TM-14 crews were reshuffled extensively due to commercial seat bookings by Austria and Germany and the necessity of flying a Kazakh-born cosmonaut as part of the Baikonur rental agreement. This was the original crew assignment. The Kazakh researchers were moved to the earlier Soyuz TM-13 flight.
17 March 1992 - Soyuz TM-14. Mir Expedition EO-11. Joint flight with Germany. Docked at the Kvant rear port at 12:33 GMT on March 19.
27 July 1992 - Soyuz TM-15. Mir Expedition EO-12. Russian astronauts Solovyov and Avdeev and French astronaut Tognini were inserted into an initial 190 x 200 km orbit inclined 51.6 deg. Later on July 27 they maneuvered to a 223 x 343 km orbit, and on July 28 docked with Mir in its 405 x 410 km orbit.
3 September 1992 - EVA Mir EO-12-1. Began installation of VDU thruster pod on Sofora tower.
7 September 1992 - EVA Mir EO-12-2. Continued installation of VDU thruster pod on Sofora tower.
11 September 1992 - EVA Mir EO-12-3. Completed installation of VDU thruster pod on Sofora tower.
15 September 1992 - EVA Mir EO-12-4. Installed Kurs docking system antenna on Kristall module.
1 February 1993 - Landing of Soyuz TM-15. Aleksandr Solovyov and Sergey Avdeyev undocked from the Mir complex aboard Soyuz TM-15 on February 1 and landed the same day in Kazakhstan after six months in space at 03:47 GMT. Soyuz TM-15's flight was an in-orbit record for a Soyuz spaceship - 188 days 21 h 39 m.
14 March 1995 - Soyuz TM-21. Mir Expedition EO-18. Soyuz TM-21 carried the EO-18 Mir crew and American Norman Thagard. Thagard was the first American to be launched in a Soyuz. Soyuz docked with Mir at 07:45:26 GMT on March 16 . On July 4 Soyuz TM-21 undocked and backed off to a distance of 100 m from Mir. The US space shuttle Atlantis, with the EO-18 crew aboard, then undocked and began a flyaround at a distance of 210 m, while the EO-19 crew aboard Soyuz took pictures before redocking with the station. Soyuz TM-21 again undocked with the EO-19 crew on September 11 from the Kvant rear port on Mir and landed at 50 deg 41'N 68 deg 15'E, 108 km northeast of Arkalyk in Kazakhstan, at 06:52:40 GMT .
3 September 1995 - Soyuz TM-22. Mir Expedition EO-20. Crew commander was Yuriy Pavlovich Gidzenko of the Russian Air Force. Flight engineer was Sergey Vasilyevich Avdeev of RKK Energiya, and cosmonaut-researcher was Thomas Reiter of the European Space Agency. Soyuz TM-22 docked with Mir's front (-X) port at 10:29:54 GMT on September 5 and the hatch was opened at 11:01:23.
20 October 1995 - EVA Mir EO-20-1. Sample cassettes installed in ESEF (European Science Exposure Facility).
8 December 1995 - EVA Mir EO-20-2. Repositioned docking adapter.
29 February 1996 - Landing of Soyuz TM-22. Soyuz TM-22 landed at 10:42 GMT.
5 August 1997 - Soyuz TM-26. Mir Expedition EO-24. The Soyuz docked manually at 17:02 GMT August 7. Over the next six months the crew undertook seven internal and external spacewalks to repair the crippled space station.
13 August 1998 - Soyuz TM-28. Soyuz TM-28 docked at 10:56 GMT on August 15 with the rear (Kvant) port of the Mir space station, which had been vacated at 09:28 GMT on August 12 by Progress M-39. The EO-25 crew, Musabayev and Budarin, landed with Baturin on Aug 25, leaving the EO-26 crew of Padalka and Avdeyev on the station. As only one final Soyuz mission to Mir was planned, with two of the seats on that Soyuz pre-sold to Slovak and French experimenters, the return crew of Soyuz TM-28 was subject to constant replanning and revision. On February 8, 1999, at 11:23 GMT Padalka and Avdeyev undocked from Mir's -X port in Soyuz TM-28, and redocked at the +X Kvant port at 11:39 GMT, freeing up the front port for the Soyuz TM-29 docking. Finally on February 27, 1999 EO-26 commander Padalka and Slovak cosmonaut Bella undocked Soyuz TM-28 from the Kvant rear docking port at 22:52 GMT, landing in Kazakhstan on February 28 at 02:14 GMT. Avdeyev remained on Mir with the EO-27 crew delivered on Soyuz TM-29, heading for a manned space flight time record.
15 September 1998 - EVA Mir EO-26-1. After donning spacesuits, the PKhO compartment of the Mir core module was depressurized and the crew entered the dead Spektr module at 20:00 GMT. They reconnected some cables for the solar panel steering mechanism and closed the hatch a half hour later. The PKhO was then repressurized.
11 November 1998 - EVA Mir EO-26-2. Padalka and Avdeyev made the EVA from the Kvant-2 airlock on the Mir. The walk began at 19:24 GMT. The cosmonauts installed a meteoroid detector in for the upcoming Leonid shower, and hand-launched the Spoutnik-41 amateur-radio mini-satellite. The space walk concluded at 01:18 GMT on November 11.
23 July 1999 - EVA Mir EO-27-2. Mir spacewalk started at 11:06 GMT. Afanasyev and Avdeyev installed a new experimental 6-meter antenna but failed to deploy it.
28 July 1999 - EVA Mir EO-27-3. The spacewalk started at 09:37 GMT. Afanasyev and Avdeyev erected an experimental 6-meter antenna. At the end of the experiment the antenna was jettisoned.
28 August 1999 - Landing of Soyuz TM-29. The hatch between Mir and Soyuz was closed at 18:12 GMT on August 27, 1999. Soyuz TM-29 undocked from Mir at 21:17 GMT with Afanasyev, Avdeyev and Haignere aboard. The Mir EO-27 crew landed in Kazakhstan at 00:35 GMT on August 28. Afanasyev had set a new cumulative time in space record, but for the first time since September 1989 there were no humans in space.
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