1. Aleksandr "Sasha" Yuriyevich Kaleri is a former Russian cosmonaut and veteran of extended stays on the Mir Space Station and the International Space Station.
17 Facts About Aleksandr Kaleri
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Aleksandr Kaleri has spent the fifth-longest time in space of any person, and the longest time in space of any person not born in what is Russia.
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In 1979, Aleksandr Kaleri graduated from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Dolgoprudny, Moscow region, as a specialist in Aircraft Flight Dynamics and Control.
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Aleksandr Kaleri participated in development of design and engineering documentation, full-scale tests of the Mir.
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Aleksandr Kaleri was selected as the Energia RSC cosmonaut candidate in April 1984.
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Aleksandr Kaleri took a training course for a spaceflight aboard the Mir orbital station as a backup crew flight engineer of the Mir-3 mission from 1 April to 9 December 1987.
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Aleksandr Kaleri took a training course for a spaceflight aboard the Mir as a backup crew flight engineer of the Mir-9 mission from January to April 1991.
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From 8 October 1991 to 25 February 1992, Aleksandr Kaleri was training as a primary crew flight engineer for the Mir-11 mission.
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Aleksandr Kaleri has participated in three extended missions aboard the Mir Space Station.
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Between 17 August 1996 to 2 March 1997, Aleksandr Kaleri spent 197-days in space aboard the Soyuz-TM-24 spacecraft and the Mir as the Mir-22 mission flight engineer.
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In 2000, Aleksandr Kaleri performed his third spaceflight aboard the Soyuz-TM-30 spacecraft and the Mir as the Mir-28 mission flight engineer.
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Aleksandr Kaleri served as a Flight Engineer on Expedition 8 and spent 194 days in space from 18 October 2003 to 30 April 2004.
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Aleksandr Kaleri arrived at the ISS after the Soyuz spacecraft linked up with the space station at 00:01 UTC on 10 October 2010.
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Aleksandr Kaleri has participated in five spacewalks and has accumulated 23 EVA hours.
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On 8 July 1992, at 12:38 UTC Aleksandr Kaleri started his first career spacewalk.
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The spacewalk began at 4:17 EST, and Foale and Aleksandr Kaleri were able to complete all but two of their planned tasks, swapping out experiment packages and mounting an instrumented dummy torso on the station's hull to measure the radiation environment faced by spacewalking astronauts.
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Aleksandr Kaleri reported seeing drops of water on the inside of his spacesuit's visor.