Gennady Padalka

Gennady Padalka
Padalka at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in March 2015
Born
Gennady Ivanovich Padalka

(1958-06-21) 21 June 1958 (age 66)
Krasnodar, Russian SFSR, USSR
StatusRetired
Alma materYeysk Military Aviation College
OccupationPilot
Awards
Space career
Roscosmos cosmonaut
RankColonel, Russian Air Force
Time in space
878 days, 11 hours and 29 minutes
SelectionTsPK-10 Cosmonaut Group (1989)
Total EVAs
10
Total EVA time
38 hours and 40 minutes
Missions
Mission insignia
Retirement28 April 2017

Gennady Ivanovich Padalka (Russian: Гeнна́дий Ива́нович Па́далка; born 21 June 1958 in Krasnodar, Soviet Union) is a Russian Air Force officer and Roscosmos cosmonaut. Padalka is the only person to have served as the commander of the International Space Station (ISS) four times. He previously held the record for the most time spent in space at 878 days until Oleg Kononenko broke this record on February 4, 2024 at 07:30:08 UTC and is currently at 2nd position.[1][2][3][4][5][6] He worked on both Mir and the International Space Station.

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  2. ^ "ISS Expedition Reports". www.spacefacts.de. Retrieved 2023-12-15.
  3. ^ "One American, Two Russians Blast Off in Russian Spacecraft to International Space Station". Voice of America. 2023-09-15. Retrieved 2023-12-15.
  4. ^ Cheng, Kenneth (27 March 2015). "Breaking Space Records". New York Times. Archived from the original on 2015-04-05. Retrieved 28 June 2015.
  5. ^ Thompson, Curtiss (29 June 2015). "Russian Cosmonaut Sets Record For Most Time Spent In Space". Penny4NASA. Archived from the original on 28 August 2019. Retrieved 2 July 2015.
  6. ^ Russian astronaut record-breaker Padalka returns to Earth, BBC News, 12 September 2015