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Personal: Male. Born in Simferopol, Kryam, Ukraine. Russian Air Force MD from Moscow Sergei M. Kirov Military Medicine Academy, 1980 . Russian Air Force. Russian Air Force. Worked in the TsPK, medical department. Astronaut Career Astronaut Group: Air Force Group 11 Supplemental - 1996. Active Entered space service: 9 February 1996. Number of Flights: 1.00. Total Time: 196.71 days. Number of EVAs: 2.00. Total EVA Time: 0.46 days. Cosmonaut training 3 June 1996 - 18 March 1998. Swimming, computers.
Kotov Spaceflight Log
Kotov Chronology 7 July 1996 - Russian Air Force Cosmonaut Training Group 11 Supplemental selected.. 18 April 2003 - Soyuz TMA-2A (cancelled). Assignment: Proposed Prime Crew. Flight: Soyuz TMA-2A. Soyuz TMA-2 was originally to switch lifeboats on the International Space Station. The crew would have returned to earth in the Soyuz TMA-1 already docked to the station. After the loss of Columbia, and the grounding of the remaining shuttles, it was decided instead that the EO-6 crew (Bowersox, Budarin, and Pettit) aboard the station would return in Soyuz TMA-1. Soyuz TMA-2 would be instead flown by a two-man skeleton crew (Malenchenko and Lu) to keep the station alive until shuttle flights could resume. 2 March 2007 - International Space Station Status Report #07-12. Flight: ISS EO-14, ISS EO-14-1, ISS EO-15, ISS EP-12. The International Space Station's Expedition 14 crew continued work this week on scientific experiments, station maintenance and clean up following a Feb. 22 Russian spacewalk. An altitude reboost engine firing planned for Friday was postponed following the ...more... 23 March 2007 - International Space Station Status Report #07-15. Flight: ISS EO-14, ISS EO-14-1, ISS EO-15, ISS EP-12. The Expedition 14 crew continued work this week on scientific experiments and increased the bandwidth on the International Space Station's computer network. Commander Michael Lopez-Alegria and Flight Engineer Suni Williams spent time working ...more... 29 March 2007 - International Space Station Status Report #07-16. Flight: ISS EO-14, ISS EO-14-1, ISS EO-15, ISS EP-12. The Expedition 14 crew continued preparations for the April arrival of a new station crew by boarding their Soyuz TMA-9 craft and taking a 24-minute flight from one station docking port to another. Flight Engineer Mikhail Tyurin guided the Soyuz away from the Earth-facing port ...more... 6 April 2007 - International Space Station Status Report #07-17. Flight: ISS EO-14, ISS EO-14-1, ISS EO-15, ISS EP-12. The Expedition 14 crew of the International Space Station was busy this week performing fitness evaluations, working on scientific experiments and preparing for the arrival of the Expedition 15 crew. Cosmonauts Fyodor Yurchikhin, Expedition 15 commander, and Oleg Kotov, Expedition ...more... 7 April 2007 - Soyuz TMA-10. Assignment: Prime Crew. Flight: ISS EO-15, ISS EP-12. Carried the Expedition 15 crew and space tourist Charles Simonyi to the International Space Station. Soyuz TMA-10 docked at the Zarya port of the International Space Station at 19:10 GMT on 9 April. It undocked from Zarya at 19:20 GMT on Sep 27 September and docked at the Zvezda port at 19:47 GMT to clear Zarya for Soyuz TMA-10. The EO-15 crew and EP-13 space tourist Shukor (brought to the station by Soyuz TMA-11) boarded Soyuz TM-10 and undocked from the Zvezda port at 07:14 GMT on 21 October. The re-entry burn began at 09:47. Due to a guidance system failure the Soyuz defaulted to an 8.6 G ballistic re-entry, landing 340 km short of the aim point at 10:36 GMT. However improved procedures after the same thing happened on Soyuz TMA-1 meant a helicopter recovery crew reached the capsule only 20 minutes after thumpdown. 7 April 2007 - International Space Station Status Report #07-18. Flight: ISS EO-14, ISS EO-14-1, ISS EO-15, ISS EP-12. Two cosmonauts and a space flight participant launched aboard a Soyuz spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 12:31 p.m. CDT Saturday for a two-day flight to the International Space Station. Less than 10 minutes after launch their spacecraft reached orbit and its antennas ...more... 9 April 2007 - International Space Station Status Report #07-19. Flight: ISS EO-14, ISS EO-14-1, ISS EO-15, ISS EP-12, ISS EO-15-1. Two Expedition 15 cosmonauts and a spaceflight participant aboard a Soyuz spacecraft docked with the Earth-facing port on the International Space Station's Zarya module at 2:10 p.m. CDT Monday. After hatch opening, scheduled for a little before 4 p.m., Expedition 15 Commander ...more... 13 April 2007 - International Space Station Status Report #07-20. Flight: ISS EO-14, ISS EO-14-1, ISS EO-15, ISS EP-12. Two Expedition 15 cosmonauts spent much of the week in handover activities with their Expedition 14 predecessors. Their new crewmate, Sunita Williams who has been aboard the International Space Station for more than three months, also is helping them learn the ropes. E15 Commander Fyodor Yurchikhin and Flight Engineer Oleg Kotov arrived at the station ...more... 20 April 2007 - International Space Station Status Report #07-21. Flight: ISS EO-14, ISS EO-14-1, ISS EO-15, ISS EP-12. The crew members aboard the International Space Station spent this week finalizing handover operations, conducting experiments and preparing for the departure of the Expedition 14 crew. E14 Commander Michael Lopez-Alegria and Flight Engineer Mikhail Tyurin, accompanied ...more... 21 April 2007 - International Space Station Status Report #07-22. Flight: ISS EO-14, ISS EO-14-1, ISS EO-15, ISS EP-12. The 14th crew of the International Space Station, Commander Michael Lopez-Alegria and Flight Engineer Mikhail Tyurin, along with spaceflight participant Charles Simonyi landed their Soyuz spacecraft in the steppes of Kazakhstan at 7:31 a.m. CDT Saturday. The Expedition 14 mission included many highlights during its seven-month duration, ...more... 27 April 2007 - International Space Station Status Report #07-23. Flight: ISS EO-14, ISS EO-14-1, ISS EO-15, ISS EP-12, ISS EO-15-1. The Expedition 15 crew aboard the International Space Station completed its first week of station orientation as the crew worked with experiments and hardware maintenance. Commander Fyodor Yurchikhin and flight engineers Oleg Kotov and Suni Williams began ...more... 4 May 2007 - International Space Station Status Report #07-24. Flight: ISS EO-15, ISS EO-14-1. Marking the second week working together, the Expedition 15 crew wrapped up various maintenance tasks, science experiments and preparations for the May 15 arrival of the Progress 25 supply ship. To prepare for the new unpiloted cargo carrier's arrival, the currently docked Progress' ...more... 11 May 2007 - International Space Station Status Report #07-25. Flight: ISS EO-15, ISS EO-14-1. A new cargo freighter launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan to the International Space Station at 10:25 p.m. CDT Friday with more than 2.5 tons of fuel, air, water and other supplies and equipment aboard. The ISS Progress 25 unpiloted cargo carrier is scheduled to dock with the station ...more... 12 May 2007 - Progress M-60. Flight: ISS EO-15, ISS EO-14-1. Space station resupply spacecraft which docked with the Zvezda port of the International Space Station at 05:10 GMT on 15 May. It undocked on 19 September was conducted plasma depletion experiments before being deorbited over the Pacific at 19:01 GMT on 25 September.. 15 May 2007 - International Space Station Status Report #07-26. Flight: ISS EO-15, ISS EO-14-1. A spacecraft automatically docked to the International Space Station early Tuesday, delivering 2.5 tons of food, fuel and supplies for the residents on board. The ISS Progress 25 linked up to the aft port of the Zvezda Service Module at 12:10 ...more... 18 May 2007 - International Space Station Status Report #07-27. Flight: ISS EO-15, ISS EO-14-1. The Expedition 15 crew this week unpacked supplies and began preparing for the arrival of the next visiting spacecraft and two spacewalks at the International Space Station. The ISS Progress 25 docked to the aft port of the Zvezda service module at 12:10 ...more... 25 May 2007 - International Space Station Status Report #07-28. Flight: ISS EO-15, ISS EO-14-1, ISS EO-15-1. Expedition 15 Commander Fyodor Yurchikhin and Flight Engineer Oleg Kotov prepared this week for two spacewalks while Flight Engineer Suni Williams prepared for her return to Earth. In preparation for her successor's arrival, Williams' downlinked a 10-minute video tour for Clayton Anderson, who will travel to the station on the upcoming space shuttle flight. Mission managers gave a "go" for a May 30 Russian spacewalk to install orbital debris ...more... 29 May 2007 - Soyuz docking port swap on International Space Station.. Flight: ISS EO-15, ISS EO-14-1. Progress M-58 undocked from the Zvezda module on 27 March. The EO-14 crew boarded Soyuz TMA-9 on 29 March, undocked from the Zarya port at 22:30 GMT, and redocked at the Zvezda port at 22:54. This freed the Zarya port for the pending Soyuz TMA-10 launch. 30 May 2007 - EVA ISS EO-15-1. Assignment: EVA Crew. Flight: ISS EO-15, ISS EO-14-1. The spacewalk was made from the Pirs module. The crew attached an extension to the Strela-2 boom, then used it to assist in moving 17 debris panels from PMA-3 to the Zvezda module. After some cabling work to prepare the Zvezda module for future docking operations with the European ATV cargo resupply spacecraft, the crew installed five of the debris shields around the forward exterior of Zvezda. The aluminum shields, designed to protect the Russian segment from space junk, were typically around 60 cm x 1 m each with a thickness of 25 mm and a mass of 8 kg. 30 May 2007 - International Space Station Status Report #07-29. Flight: ISS EO-15, ISS EO-14-1. Two International Space Station cosmonauts stepped outside Wednesday for a 5-hour, 25-minute spacewalk, installing Service Module Debris Protection panels and rerouting a Global Positioning System antenna cable. Wearing Russian Orlan spacesuits, Commander Fyodor Yurchikhin and Flight Engineer ...more... 1 June 2007 - International Space Station Status Report #07-30. Flight: ISS EO-15, ISS EO-14-1. The Expedition 15 crew completed the first of three planned spacewalks this week and prepared for the upcoming arrival of space shuttle Atlantis to the International Space Station. On Wednesday, Commander Fyodor Yurchikhin and Flight Engineer Oleg Kotov stepped ...more... 6 June 2007 - EVA ISS EO-15-2. Assignment: EVA Crew. Flight: ISS EO-15, ISS EO-14-1. Exiting from the Pirs airlock, the cosmonauts first installed the Biorisk microorganism experiment on the outside of the station. They laid some ethernet cable on the exterior of the Zarya module that completed work to allow the Russian segment to be controlled from the US segment. The crew then completed installation of the final 12 debris panels on the Zvezda module to provide improved protection against micrometeoroids and space junk. 6 June 2007 - International Space Station Status Report #07-31. Flight: ISS EO-15, ISS EO-14-1, STS-117, ISS EO-15-1. The Expedition 15 crew completed the second spacewalk in eight days and continued preparations for space shuttle Atlantis' arrival at the International Space Station. Commander Fyodor Yurchikhin and Flight Engineer Oleg Kotov opened the hatch on the ...more... 8 June 2007 - STS-117 MCC Status Report #01. Flight: ISS EO-15, ISS EO-14-1, STS-117, ISS EO-15-1. The Space Shuttle Atlantis rocketed into a Florida twilight sky on time at 6:38 p.m. CDT today, kicking off the first of four shuttle missions scheduled this year. Atlantis' climb to orbit was flawless, carrying a seven-member crew. Aboard Atlantis ...more... 9 June 2007 - STS-117 MCC Status Report #02. Flight: ISS EO-15, ISS EO-14-1, STS-117, ISS EO-15-1. The astronauts on board Space Shuttle Atlantis got their first on-orbit wakeup call this morning on their way to a Sunday afternoon rendezvous to deliver a new crewmember and a new set of solar arrays to the International Space Station. “Big Boy Toys” by Aaron Tippin, sounded on board the orbiter at 9:10 a.m. CDT, played ...more... 9 June 2007 - STS-117 MCC Status Report #03. Flight: ISS EO-15, ISS EO-14-1, STS-117, ISS EO-15-1. During its first full day in orbit, the STS-117 crew inspected Space Shuttle Atlantis’ heat shield and prepared for tomorrow’s docking with the International Space Station scheduled for 2:38 p.m. CDT. Pilot Lee Archambault and Mission Specialists Patrick Forrester and Steven Swanson ...more... 10 June 2007 - STS-117 MCC Status Report #04. Flight: ISS EO-15, ISS EO-14-1, STS-117, ISS EO-15-1. Space Shuttle Atlantis is only hours away from delivering a new set of solar array wings, and a new crew member, to the International Space Station. Docking of the shuttle to the station is targeted for 2:38 p.m. CDT. The shuttle crew was awakened at 8:08 a.m. with “Riding the Sky,” written and performed ...more... 10 June 2007 - STS-117 MCC Status Report #05. Flight: ISS EO-15, ISS EO-14-1, STS-117, ISS EO-15-1. The crew of Space Shuttle Atlantis officially was welcomed by the International Space Station crew this afternoon at 4:20 CDT with handshakes and hugs. Shuttle Commander Rick Sturckow was the first to enter the station followed soon ...more... 11 June 2007 - STS-117 MCC Status Report #07. Flight: ISS EO-15, ISS EO-14-1, STS-117, ISS EO-15-1. The International Space Station grew in size and capability today when the S3/S4 Truss became a permanent addition as crewmembers worked inside and outside the complex to complete the final hookups. The work culminated in a 6 hour, 15 minute spacewalk by shuttle astronauts Jim Reilly ...more... 11 June 2007 - STS-117 MCC Status Report #06. Flight: ISS EO-15, ISS EO-14-1, STS-117, ISS EO-15-1. A spacewalk to install and activate a new set of solar array wings highlights the first full day of docked operations of space shuttle Atlantis and the International Space Station. Most of the crewmembers got an 8:08 a.m. CDT wakeup call with the song “It Probably ...more... 12 June 2007 - STS-117 MCC Status Report #08. Flight: ISS EO-15, ISS EO-14-1, STS-117, ISS EO-15-1. The International Space Station’s new solar array wings are spreading today while the 10 astronauts and cosmonauts get ready for the second spacewalk during this flight of space shuttle Atlantis. The day began at 8:08 a.m. with the wakeup song “What a Wonderful World” by Louis ...more... 13 June 2007 - STS-117 MCC Status Report #10. Flight: ISS EO-15, ISS EO-14-1, STS-117, ISS EO-15-1. A pair of spacewalking astronauts is getting ready for a 6½-hour excursion this afternoon to help retract an old solar array wing and get two new ones ready to go to work. Mission Specialists Patrick Forrester and Steven Swanson, who camped out in the ...more... 15 June 2007 - STS-117 MCC Status Report #15. Flight: ISS EO-15, ISS EO-14-1, STS-117, ISS EO-15-1. The situation aboard space shuttle Atlantis and the International Space Station improved greatly today following repair of a protruding thermal blanket, restoring power to problematic Russian navigation computers, and completing retraction of a finicky solar array. Mission Specialists Jim Reilly and Danny Olivas worked outside the station for 7 ...more... 16 June 2007 - STS-117 MCC Status Report #17. Flight: ISS EO-15, ISS EO-14-1, STS-117, ISS EO-15-1. In a continuing improvement of the onboard Russian computer system, all six channels are now operating in the two Russian command-and-control and the guidance-and-navigation computers that stopped operating three days ago. During a news briefing from the Johnson Space Center Saturday afternoon, International ...more... 17 June 2007 - STS-117 MCC Status Report #18. Flight: ISS EO-15, ISS EO-14-1, STS-117, ISS EO-15-1. For the fourth time in less than a week, the astronauts on Space Shuttle Atlantis are about to venture outside their spacecraft to press ahead with assembly of the International Space Station. The crew’s wakeup call came at 6:38 a.m. CDT with the theme song from “Band of Brothers,” ...more... 17 June 2007 - STS-117 MCC Status Report #19. Flight: ISS EO-15, ISS EO-14-1, STS-117, ISS EO-15-1. Astronauts Patrick Forrester and Steve Swanson completed the fourth and final spacewalk of Atlantis’ mission at 5:54 p.m. CDT, wrapping up all the tasks planned for the mission and finishing some jobs that will reduce the workload for future spacewalkers. The spacewalk was the 87th in support of station assembly and maintenance, the 59th ...more... 19 June 2007 - STS-117 MCC Status Report #22. Flight: ISS EO-15, ISS EO-14-1, STS-117, ISS EO-15-1. The astronauts on space shuttle Atlantis woke up this morning with the hatch to the International Space Station closed and only hours left before undocking for the two-day trip back to Earth. Today’s wakeup call came at 5:38 a.m. CDT with “Feelin’ Stronger Every Day” by Chicago, ...more... 20 June 2007 - STS-117 MCC Status Report #24. Flight: ISS EO-15, ISS EO-14-1, STS-117, ISS EO-15-1. Seven astronauts on space shuttle Atlantis are preparing themselves and their orbiter for a planned Thursday landing to wrap up the year’s first International Space Station assembly mission. The astronauts’ wakeup call came at 5:08 a.m. with “If I Had $1000000” by Barenaked ...more... 29 June 2007 - International Space Station Status Report #07-32. Flight: ISS EO-15, ISS EO-15-1. After the departure of the space shuttle Atlantis, Expedition 15 Commander Fyodor Yurchikhin and Flight Engineer Oleg Kotov returned to their daily operations aboard the International Space Station this week, while newly arrived Flight Engineer Clay Anderson began conducting scientific experiments. Atlantis landed in California June 22 after delivering a new starboard truss segment ...more... 6 July 2007 - International Space Station Status Report #07-33. Flight: ISS EO-15, ISS EO-15-1. Expedition 15 Commander Fyodor Yurchikhin and Flight Engineer Clay Anderson this week finished preparing their spacesuits for a planned July 23 spacewalk. Yurchikhin and Flight Engineer Oleg Kotov also continued evaluating the computers on the Russian segment of the International Space Station. During the U.S. spacewalk, Yurchikhin and Anderson will jettison a support post ...more... 23 July 2007 - ISS EO-15: Station Crew Winds Up Ammonia Reservoir Jettison Spacewalk. Two International Space Station crew members Monday successfully wrapped up a 7-hour, 41-minute spacewalk that saw the removal and jettison of a refrigerator-size ammonia reservoir. The spacewalk from the Quest Airlock ended at 2:06 p.m. EDT. Astronaut Clay ...more... 5 August 2007 - ISS EO-15: Progress Docks to Space Station. A new Progress cargo carrier docked to the International Space Station's Pirs docking compartment at 2:40 p.m. EDT Sunday with more than 2.5 tons of fuel, air, water and other supplies and equipment aboard. The station's 26th Progress unpiloted spacecraft brings to the orbiting laboratory ...more... 30 August 2007 - ISS EO-15: PMA-3 Relocation. International Space Station crew members moved Pressurized Mating Adapter-3 from the left side of the Unity node to the bottom in process that prepares the station for future growth. For the relocation, Expedition 15 Flight Engineer Clay Anderson was at the controls ...more... 27 September 2007 - ISS EO-15: Station Crew Moves Soyuz. International Space Station crew members docked their Soyuz TMA-10 spacecraft to the aft port of the Zvezda service module at 3:47 p.m. EDT Thursday, completing a move of 80 feet. During the flight they were traveling at 17,500 mph -- almost five miles a second ...more... 21 October 2007 - ISS EO-15: Space Station Crew Back on Earth. Commander Fyodor Yurchikhin and Flight Engineer Oleg Kotov, the 15th crew of the International Space Station, landed safely in their Soyuz spacecraft at 6:36 a.m. EDT Sunday in the steppes of Kazakhstan. A ballistic descent for the returning Soyuz resulted in a landing about 210 miles ...more... 12 November 2007 - ISS On-Orbit Status 11/12/07. All ISS systems continue to function nominally, except those noted previously or below. Underway: Week 4 of Increment 16. Station sleep cycle: 1:00am – 4:30pm EST. PMA-2 (Pressurized Mating Adapter ...more... Bibliography and Further Reading
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