Kirill Peskov

Kirill Peskov
Кирилл Песков
Peskov in 2024
Born (1990-05-01) 1 May 1990 (age 34)
Kyzyl, Tuva ASSR, Soviet Union
StatusActive
Alma materUlyanovsk Higher Civil Aviation School
Space career
Roscosmos cosmonaut
Current occupation
Test cosmonaut
Previous occupation
First officer for Ikar and Nordwind Airlines
RankLieutenant, Russian Air Force (reserve)
Selection17th Cosmonaut Group (2018)
MissionsSpaceX Crew-10 (Expedition 72/73)
Mission insignia

Kirill Alexandrovich Peskov (Russian: Кирилл Александрович Песков; born 1 May 1990) is a Russian cosmonaut who is planned to fly on the SpaceX Crew-10 mission in February 2025.[1] In 2018, he was selected as a cosmonaut of Roscosmos Group 17 from the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center. He has no spaceflight experience. Before joining the cosmonaut corps, he worked as a first officer for Ikar Airlines flying Boeing 757 and 767 aircraft.[2]

  1. ^ "NASA Shares its SpaceX Crew-10 Assignments for Space Station Mission - NASA". Retrieved 2024-08-08.
  2. ^ "Russia's new cosmonauts include brother of ISS crew member | collectSPACE". collectSPACE.com. Retrieved 2024-08-08.