Fyodor Yurchikhin

Fyodor Nikolayevich Yurchikhin
Born (1959-01-03) 3 January 1959 (age 65)
StatusRetired
NationalityRussian
OccupationCosmonaut
AwardsHero of the Russian Federation
Space career
Roscosmos cosmonaut
Current occupation
Mechanical engineer
Time in space
672 days 20 hours 38 minutes
Selection1997 RKKE Cosmonaut Group
Total EVAs
9
Total EVA time
59 hours and 28 minutes[1]
MissionsSTS-112, Soyuz TMA-10 (Expedition 15), Soyuz TMA-19 (Expedition 24/25), Soyuz TMA-09M (Expedition 36/37), Soyuz MS-04 (Expedition 51/52)
Mission insignia

Fyodor Nikolayevich Yurchikhin (Russian: Фёдор Николаевич Юрчихин, Greek: Θεόδωρος Γιουρτσίχιν του Νικόλαου; born 3 January 1959) is a Russian cosmonaut of Pontic Greek descent, engineer and RSC Energia test-pilot who has flown on five spaceflights. His first spaceflight was a 10-day Space Shuttle mission STS-112. His second was a long-duration stay aboard the International Space Station (ISS) as a flight engineer for Expedition 15; for this mission he was launched in the Soyuz TMA-10 spacecraft. He has undertaken two further long-duration stays aboard the ISS, as a crew member of Expedition 24 / 25. For this mission he was launched with the spacecraft Soyuz TMA-19, and he landed in November 2010, also with the Soyuz TMA-19 spacecraft. He served as Soyuz commander for his fourth mission aboard Soyuz TMA-09M, as flight engineer for Expedition 36 and ISS commander for Expedition 37. In April 2017, Yurchikhin launched on Soyuz MS-04 for the fifth spaceflight of his career, a six-month mission to the ISS as part of Expedition 51 and 52, for which he was the commander.

  1. ^ "Spacewalk goes into overtime as cosmonauts deploy satellites, collect science". Spaceflight Insider.com. 17 August 2017. Archived from the original on 1 December 2020. Retrieved 19 August 2017.