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Personal: Male, Married, Two children. Born in Kapustin Yar, Astrakhan, Russia. Astronaut Career Astronaut Group: Buran Group 3 - 1989, Chkalov Group 4 - 1993, Air Force Group 12 - 1997. Inactive Entered space service: 25 January 1989. Left space service: 1 April 1991. Number of Flights: 2.00. Total Time: 199.63 days. Number of EVAs: 2.00. Total EVA Time: 0.46 days.
NASA Official Biography
Tokarev Spaceflight Log
Tokarev Chronology 10 March 1999 - ISS Status Report: ISS 99-10. As the International Space Station completed its 1,700th orbit of Earth, flight control teams in Houston and Moscow reported its systems continued to operate well this week with no problems seen that would interfere with its flight. Controllers in Houston did note an apparent problem, late last week, with one of ...more... 27 May 1999 - STS-96. Assignment: Prime Crew. Flight: STS-96. Discovery docked at the PMA-2 end of the International Space Station PMA-2/Unity/PMA-1/Zarya stack. The crew transferred equipment from the Spacehab Logistics Double Module in the payload bay to the interior of the station. Tammy Jernigan and Dan Barry made a space walk to transfer equipment from the payload bay to the exterior of the station. The ODS/EAL docking/airlock truss carried two TSA (Tool Stowage Assembly) packets with space walk tools. The Integrated Cargo Carrier (ICC), built by Energia and DASA-Bremen, carried parts of the Strela crane and the US OTD crane as well as the SHOSS box which contains three bags of tools and equipment to be stored on ISS's exterior. The STS-96 payload bay manifest:
On May 30 at 02:56 GMT Tammy Jernigan and Dan Barry entered the payload bay of Discovery from the tunnel adapter hatch, and made a 7 hr 55 min space walk, transferring equipment to the exterior of the station. On May 31 at 01:15 GMT the hatch to Unity was opened and the crew began several days of cargo transfers to the station. Battery units and communications equipment were replaced and sound insulation was added to Zarya. Discovery undocked from ISS at 22:39 GMT on June 3 into a 385 x 399 km x 51.6 degree orbit, leaving the station without a crew aboard. On June 5 the Starshine satellite was ejected from the payload bay. The payload bay doors were closed at around 02:15 GMT on June 6 and the deorbit burn was at 04:54 GMT. Discovery landed on runway 15 at Kennedy Space Center at 06:02 GMT. 27 May 1999 - STS-96 Mission Status Report # 01. Flight: STS-96. Discovery and its multi-national crew of seven astronauts blasted off this morning from the Kennedy Space Center, lighting up the early morning skies as they sped to orbit on the first shuttle mission of the year for the first shuttle docking to the International Space Station. Commander Kent Rominger, Pilot Rick Husband and Mission Specialists Tammy Jernigan, ...more... 27 May 1999 - STS-96 Mission Status Report # 02. Flight: STS-96. The crew of STS-96 was awakened just before 7 p.m. by the Beach Boys' version of "California Dreamin," played for Mission Specialist Tammy Jernigan. Once awake, Discovery's seven-member crew began preparing for its first full day on orbit to ready the vehicle for tomorrow night's docking with the International Space Station and a spacewalk the night after. Commander Kent Rominger, Pilot Rick Husband and Mission Specialists Ellen Ochoa, ...more... 28 May 1999 - STS-96 Mission Status Report # 03. Flight: STS-96. With the Shuttle trailing the station by less than 500 nautical miles and moving closer every orbit, Commander Kent Rominger twice fired Discovery's steering jets to fine tune the Shuttle's approach to the new station. The engine firings were the first in a series that will culminate in a docking with the station planned for 11:24 p.m. Central time today. Down on Discovery's middeck, Flight Engineer Ellen Ochoa and Canadian astronaut Julie Payette opened the tunnel and hatches leading to the Spacehab module in the payload bay. Spacehab is loaded with equipment, clothes and food to be stored aboard the new orbital outpost. Later, Payette and Russian cosmonaut Valery Tokarev temporarily stowed some equipment in the module to free up room in Discovery's cabin. In preparation for Saturday's spacewalk, astronauts Tammy Jernigan and Dan Barry, ...more... 29 May 1999 - STS-96 Mission Status Report # 06. Flight: STS-96. Having completed the first space shuttle docking with the International Space Station late last night, Discovery's astronauts will go to sleep at 8:50 a.m. Central time to rest up for a space walk late tonight to install a pair of cranes and other gear to the exterior of the orbital complex. Commander Kent Rominger completed a textbook rendezvous and docking with the station ...more... 30 May 1999 - STS-96 Mission Status Report #09. Flight: STS-96. Discovery's astronauts are preparing to enter the International Space Station for the first time in six months following a rousing wakeup call from Mission Control in honor of Memorial Day. The crew is scheduled to climb inside the Unity and Zarya modules mid evening to ...more... 31 May 1999 - STS-96 Mission Status Report #10. Flight: STS-96. For the first time in six months, astronauts entered the International Space Station delivering supplies and preparing the outpost to receive its first resident crew, scheduled to arrive in early 2000. Mission Specialists Tammy Jernigan and Russian Space Agency cosmonaut Valery Tokarev ...more... 31 May 1999 - STS-96 Mission Status Report #11. Flight: STS-96. Discovery's crew of seven awoke to the country and western tune "Amarillo by Morning" to begin flight day six on orbit. The George Strait version was played in honor of Pilot Rick Husband, who is from Amarillo, Texas. Today, most of the crew will be involved in logistics transfer activities within ...more... 1 June 1999 - STS-96 Mission Status Report #12. Flight: STS-96. Discovery's crew headed for its sleep period this morning, reporting significant progress in the transfer of equipment and supplies to the International Space Station after finishing up the planned refurbishment of a battery system in one of the station's modules. Mission Specialist Ellen Ochoa, the "load master" of this resupply mission, radioed ...more... 2 June 1999 - STS-96 Mission Status Report #15. Flight: STS-96. Discovery's astronauts will finish their work inside the International Space Station tonight and are scheduled to have all the hatches closed by about 4 a.m. Thursday. Shortly thereafter, the shuttle's small thrusters will be fired to raise the entire complex's orbit in preparation for the undocking and departure set for late tomorrow afternoon. The crew was awakened at 3:50 this afternoon by the Russian song "Vasha Blagarodye" ...more... 4 June 1999 - STS-96 Mission Status Report #18. Flight: STS-96. After leaving the International Space Station behind, Discovery's astronauts were rewarded with several hours of scheduled off-duty time in recognition of their ambitious pace of activities over the past several days. Discovery undocked from ISS at 5:39 p.m. central time yesterday, having delivered ...more... 5 June 1999 - STS-96 Mission Status Report #21. Flight: STS-96. Discovery and its seven-member crew are preparing to return home tonight with landing planned for 1:03 a.m. Central time following a flight that will go into the books as the first docking of a shuttle with the International Space Station. Weather permitting, Discovery's computers will ignite the twin breaking rockets ...more... 6 June 1999 - STS-96 Mission Status Report #22. Flight: STS-96. Discovery's astronauts glided to the 11th night landing in shuttle program history early Sunday, landing at 1:03 a.m. Central time to wrap up a 4 million mile mission to resupply the International Space Station. Discovery swooped out of darkness as Commander Kent Rominger set the shuttle and ...more... 6 June 1999 - Landing of STS-96. Assignment: Return Crew. Flight: STS-96. STS-96 landed at 06:02 GMT. 24 July 2003 - STS-116 (cancelled). Assignment: Proposed Prime Crew. Flight: STS-116A. Flight delayed after the Columbia disaster. STS-116 was to have flown ISS Assembly mission ISS-12A.1. It would have delivered the third left-side truss segment (ITS P5), logistics and supplies aboard a Spacehab single cargo module and carried out a crew rotation. 10 September 2005 - International Space Station Status Report #05-44. Flight: ISS EO-11, ISS EO-12. A 2½-ton delivery arrived at the back door of the International Space Station today as an unpiloted Russian cargo ship linked up to the Zvezda module's docking port at 9:42 a.m. CDT, filled with supplies for Expedition 11 Commander Sergei Krikalev and Flight Engineer John Phillips and spare parts for repair to some Station systems. The crewmembers were inside Zvezda monitoring the automated docking as ISS flew ...more... 30 September 2005 - International Space Station Status Report #05-46. Flight: ISS EO-11, ISS EO-12. Preparations for arrival of the next crew of the space station, scientific activities and maintenance highlighted this week's activities aboard the orbiting laboratory. Expedition 11 Commander Sergei Krikalev and NASA Science Officer John Phillips also ...more... 30 September 2005 - International Space Station Status Report #05-47. Flight: ISS EO-11, ISS EO-12. The 12th crew of the international space station rocketed into space tonight, beginning a six-month mission. A Soyuz spacecraft carried Expedition 12 Commander and NASA Science Officer William ...more... 1 October 2005 - Soyuz TMA-7. Assignment: Prime Crew. Flight: ISS EO-11, ISS EO-12. Launch delayed from September 27. Soyuz TMA-7 docked with the International Space Station at 05:27 GMT on 3 October, bringing the long duration EO-12 crew of (McArthur, Commander; Tokarev, Flight Engineer) and space tourist Olsen. McArthur, Tokarev and Pontes (brought to the station aboard Soyuz TMA-8) transferred to TMA-7 on April 8, 2006, closing the hatches at 17:15 GMT and undocking from Zvezda at 20:28 GMT, leaving Vinogradov and Williams from Soyuz TMA-8 as the Expedition 13 in charge of the station. Soyuz TMA-7 fired its engines at 22:58 GMT for the deorbit burn and landed in Kazakhstan at 23:48 GMT. 3 October 2005 - International Space Station Status Report #05-48. Flight: ISS EO-11, ISS EO-12. New residents arrived at the international space station this morning to begin a six-month mission that will carry them through the new year into next spring. With Expedition 12 Flight Engineer and Soyuz Commander Valery Tokarev at the controls, ...more... 7 October 2005 - International Space Station Status Report #05-49. Flight: ISS EO-11, ISS EO-12. Following the docking of the Soyuz spacecraft early Monday morning, the space station is now home to a new crew. Expedition 12 Commander Bill McArthur and Flight Engineer Valery Tokarev, joined by spaceflight participant Gregory Olsen, spent the week on board with the Expedition 11 crew performing handover and transfer activities. McArthur, Tokarev and Olsen arrived at the space station at 12:27 a.m. CDT Monday, ...more... 10 October 2005 - International Space Station Status Report #05-50. Flight: ISS EO-11, ISS EO-12. After traveling 75 million miles during six months on the international space station, Expedition 11 Commander Sergei Krikalev and NASA ISS Science Officer John Phillips returned to Earth today. With them was American Greg Olsen, who spent eight days on the station under a commercial agreement with the Russian Federal Space Agency. The Soyuz spacecraft with Krikalev, Phillips and Olsen landed in north-central Kazakhstan, ...more... 14 October 2005 - International Space Station Status Report #05-51. Flight: ISS EO-11, ISS EO-12. Expedition 12 Commander Bill McArthur and Flight Engineer Valery Tokarev are spending their first few days alone on the international space station following the safe return home of their predecessors Monday. McArthur and Tokarev, veterans of shorter space shuttle flights, began familiarizing ...more... 21 October 2005 - International Space Station Status Report #05-52. Flight: ISS EO-11, ISS EO-12. Growing increasingly familiar with their microgravity home and laboratory in space, the 12th international space station crew turned its attention to experiment work, began preparations for the first space station-based spacewalk using U.S. suits since 2003 and captured spectacular images and video of the latest tropical cyclone in the Atlantic basin, Hurricane Wilma. Expedition 12 Commander and NASA Station Science Officer Bill McArthur and Flight ...more... 28 October 2005 - International Space Station Status Report: SS05-053. Flight: ISS EO-12. Commander Bill McArthur and Flight Engineer Valery Tokarev this week checked the clothes, tools and plans they will use for a five and half-hour spacewalk set for Nov. 7. McArthur and Tokarev will mark five years of continuous human presence on the International ...more... 4 November 2005 - International Space Station Status Report: SS05-054. Flight: ISS EO-12. The Expedition 12 crew prepared for its first spacewalk and kept the international space station ship-shape this week as they passed a milestone of five years of human presence aboard the complex. Following a review by station program management last week, managers Thursday gave ...more... 7 November 2005 - EVA ISS EO-12-1. Assignment: EVA Crew. Flight: ISS EO-12. The EVA started an hour late due to a misaligned valve in the Quest airlock module. The crew installed a television camera on the outboard end of the port truss segment of the ISS and removed a failed Rotary Joint Motor Controller (RJMC). They then moved hand over hand to the P6 truss, 16 m above the Destiny module. McArthur removed an old experiment, the Floating Potential Probe, and pushed it away from the station. Finally the crew replaced a failed circuit breaker in the Mobile Transporter. 7 November 2005 - International Space Station Status Report: SS05-055. Flight: ISS EO-12. The international space station crew completed the first spacewalk using U.S. space suits since April 2003, installing a new camera and discarding an inactive science probe. Commander Bill McArthur and Flight Engineer Valery Tokarev began their spacewalk ...more... 10 November 2005 - International Space Station Status Report: SS05-056. Flight: ISS EO-12. With their first spacewalk behind them, the residents of the international space station pressed ahead this week to prepare for several upcoming milestones. Expedition 12 Commander Bill McArthur and Flight Engineer Valery Tokarev will get ...more... 18 November 2005 - Soyuz TMA-7 moved on ISS.. Flight: ISS EO-12. The ISS EO-12 crew boarded their Soyuz TMA-7 and undocked from the Pirs module at 08:46 GMT, flew around the station, and then docked with the Zarya module at 09:05 GMT. This cleared the hatch on the Pirs module for a future planned spacewalk. 18 November 2005 - International Space Station Status Report: SS05-057. Flight: ISS EO-12. Expedition 12 Commander Bill McArthur and Flight Engineer Valery Tokarev took a short ride away from the International Space Station today, flying their Soyuz spacecraft from one docking port to another. McArthur and Tokarev left the station unoccupied for about half an hour as they ...more... 16 December 2005 - International Space Station Status Report: SS05-058. Flight: ISS EO-12. This week the crew focused on preparing for the arrival of a holiday shipment of fuel, food, water, spare parts and gifts. A Progress spacecraft launches from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 1:38 ...more... 21 December 2005 - International Space Station Status Report: SS05-059. Flight: ISS EO-12. Supplies and holiday gifts are on the way to the International Space Station following today's Progress spacecraft launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The 20th supply ship to visit the station lifted off at 1:38 p.m. EST. Less than ...more... 23 December 2005 - International Space Station Status Report: SS05-060. Flight: ISS EO-12. A holiday delivery arrived at the International Space Station today for the Expedition 12 crew. An unpiloted Russian Progress cargo craft linked up automatically to the station's ...more... 30 December 2005 - International Space Station Status Report: SS05-061. Flight: ISS EO-12. The crew onboard the International Space Station are looking forward to celebrating New Year's Day after spending a quiet Christmas 225 miles above the Earth. On Sunday, Expedition 12 Commander Bill McArthur and Flight Engineer Valery Tokarev ...more... 6 January 2006 - International Space Station Status Report: SS06-001. Flight: ISS EO-12. It was back to work this week for the Expedition 12 crew after a long New Year's weekend that marked the halfway point in their six-month stay aboard the station. Sunday is the crew's 100th day in space. Expedition 12 Commander Bill McArthur ...more... 13 January 2006 - International Space Station Status Report: SS06-002. Flight: ISS EO-12. This past week, Expedition 12 Commander Bill McArthur and Flight Engineer Valery Tokarev completed an important upgrade to the station's spacewalk preparation systems, and installed the Recharge Oxygen Orifice Bypass Assembly. The assembly will conserve station oxygen during spacewalk preparations when the ...more... 20 January 2006 - International Space Station Status Report: SS06-003. Flight: ISS EO-12. Expedition 12 Commander Bill McArthur began his week Sunday by running a half-marathon on the station treadmill, supporting friends and colleagues running in the Houston Marathon. As he ran 220 miles above the Earth on board the station, the runners circled Houston. ...more... 27 January 2006 - International Space Station Status Report: SS06-004. Flight: ISS EO-12, ISS EO-13. Preparations for a walk in space took center stage this week on the space station. Expedition 12 Commander Bill McArthur and Flight Engineer Valery Tokarev reviewed ...more... 3 February 2006 - EVA ISS EO-12-2. Assignment: EVA Crew. Flight: ISS EO-12. Wearing Orlan suits, the crew emerged from the Pirs airlock of the station and first released a surplus Orlan suit with its radio transmitter activated, dubbed SuitSat. SuitSat broadcast greetings in six languages to radio amateurs for two orbits before its batteries failed. The crew then moved to the Zarya module and relocated the Strela crane grapple fixture to the Unity module. This cleared Zarya for the future temporary stowage of debris shields. The crew moved on to the station's center truss, where they safed a cutting mechanism on one of two umbilicals to the Mobile Transporter rail car. Returning to Pirs, they retrieved a microorganism experiment and photographed the exterior of Zvezda. 3 February 2006 - International Space Station Status Report: SS06-005. Flight: ISS EO-12, STS-115, STS-121. Space station crewmembers released a spacesuit-turned-satellite during the second spacewalk of their mission last night. Called SuitSat, it faintly transmitted recorded voices of school children to amateur ...more... 10 February 2006 - International Space Station Status Report: SS06-006. Flight: ISS EO-12. The International Space Station crew completed a semiannual treadmill overhaul this week and began readying for a first-ever station "camp out" next week. Expedition 12 Commander Bill McArthur and Flight Engineer Valery Tokarev spent several ...more... 17 February 2006 - International Space Station Status Report: SS06-006A. Flight: ISS EO-12. After an almost six-hour spacewalk last week, the crew began the week with a little time off; then returned to science investigations, routine maintenance and equipment tests. Expedition 12 Commander Bill McArthur and Flight Engineer Valery Tokarev spent the ...more... 24 February 2006 - International Space Station Status Report: SS06-007. Flight: ISS EO-12, STS-121. Aboard the International Space Station this week, Expedition 12 Commander Bill McArthur and Flight Engineer Valery Tokarev have been preparing for upcoming spacecraft arrivals and departures. Managers decided to postpone the planned station "campout" this week until next ...more... 3 March 2006 - International Space Station Status Report: SS06-008. Flight: ISS EO-13, STS-115, STS-121. Entering the homestretch of a half-year mission, International Space Station Commander Bill McArthur and Flight Engineer Valery Tokarev monitored the departure of one of two Russian cargo ships today. Filled with trash and items no longer needed, the Progress 19 vehicle undocked from ...more... 4 March 2006 - International Space Station Status Report: SS06-009. Flight: ISS EO-12, ISS EO-13. The International Space Station crew's week included a robotic arm first and a docking communications test to prepare for a new European cargo ship. Expedition 12 Commander Bill McArthur and Flight Engineer Valery Tokarev repaired ...more... 10 March 2006 - International Space Station Status Report: SS06-010. Flight: ISS EO-12, ISS EO-13. Expedition 12 Commander Bill McArthur and Flight Engineer Valery Tokarev plan to move their Soyuz capsule from the Earth-facing docking port of the station's Zarya module to an aft port on the Zvezda module on Monday, March 20. If all goes as planned, the flight will take less than 40 minutes. Undocking is ...more... 17 March 2006 - International Space Station Status Report: SS06-011. Flight: ISS EO-12, ISS EO-13. Expedition 12 Commander Bill McArthur and Flight Engineer Valery Tokarev plan to move their Soyuz capsule from the Earth-facing docking port of the station's Zarya module to an aft port on the Zvezda module on Monday, March 20. If all goes as planned, the flight will take less than 40 minutes. Undocking is ...more... 20 March 2006 - Soyuz TMA-7 moved.. Flight: ISS EO-12. At 06:49 GMT ISS crewmen McArthur and Tokarev flew Soyuz TMA-7 from the Zarya docking port to the docking port at the aft end of Zvezda, docking there at 07:11 GMT. This leaves the Zarya port free for the planned arrival of Soyuz TMA-8 on April 1. 24 March 2006 - International Space Station Status Report: SS06-012. Flight: ISS EO-12, ISS EO-13. The Expedition 12 crew members have the International Space Station poised and ready for their replacements to arrive March 31. Soyuz Commander Valery Tokarev and Expedition 12 Commander Bill McArthur moved their ...more... 30 March 2006 - International Space Station Status Report: SS06-013. Flight: ISS EO-12, ISS EO-13. The 13th crew of the International Space Station roared away today from Kazakhstan into orbit atop a Russian Soyuz rocket. Expedition 13 Commander Pavel Vinogradov, NASA Science Officer and Flight Engineer ...more... 1 April 2006 - International Space Station Status Report: SS06-014. Flight: ISS EO-12, ISS EO-13. A new crew pulled into port at the International Space Station late Friday to start a six-month mission. With Expedition 13 and Soyuz Commander Pavel Vinogradov at the controls, the Soyuz ...more... 6 April 2006 - International Space Station Status Report: SS06-015. Flight: ISS EO-12, STS-115. Camaraderie and hard work highlighted this week's joint operations on the International Space Station. Aboard the complex, one crew prepared for a return to Earth while another focused ...more... 7 April 2006 - International Space Station Status Report: SS06-016. Flight: ISS EO-12, ISS EO-13, STS-115, STS-121, ISS Astrolab. After orbiting Earth more than 3,000 times during six months on the International Space Station, Expedition 12 Commander Bill McArthur and Flight Engineer Valery Tokarev returned to the planet Sunday morning in Kazakhstan. With them was Marcos Pontes, Brazil's first astronaut. The Soyuz spacecraft ...more... 14 April 2006 - International Space Station Status Report: SS06-017. Flight: ISS EO-12, ISS EO-13, STS-121, ISS Astrolab. The 13th crew of the International Space Station is wrapping up its first week flying solo in its new orbiting home. The crew's work has included station maintenance, medical and other experiments ...more... Bibliography and Further Reading
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