1. Fyodor Nikolayevich Yurchikhin is a Russian cosmonaut of Pontic Greek descent, engineer and RSC Energia test-pilot who has flown on five spaceflights.
30 Facts About Fyodor Yurchikhin
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Fyodor Yurchikhin's first spaceflight was a 10-day Space Shuttle mission STS-112.
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Fyodor Yurchikhin's second was a long-duration stay aboard the International Space Station as a flight engineer for Expedition 15; for this mission he was launched in the Soyuz TMA-10 spacecraft.
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Fyodor Yurchikhin served as Soyuz commander for his fourth mission aboard Soyuz TMA-09M, as flight engineer for Expedition 36 and ISS commander for Expedition 37.
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Fyodor Yurchikhin's hobbies include collecting stamps and space logos, sports, history of cosmonautics, and promotion of space.
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Fyodor Yurchikhin enjoys reading history, science fiction and the classics.
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Fyodor Yurchikhin finished studying in 1983, and is qualified as a mechanical engineer, specializing in airspace vehicles.
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Fyodor Yurchikhin was one of five cosmonauts selected to raise the Russian flag at the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics opening ceremony.
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Fyodor Yurchikhin began working as a controller in the Russian Mission Control Center, and held the positions of engineer, senior engineer, and lead engineer, eventually becoming a lead engineer for Shuttle-Mir and NASA-Mir programs.
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Fyodor Yurchikhin was aboard when Simonyi gave a live telebridge conversation on 17 April 2007.
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Fyodor Yurchikhin served as the commander of the Expedition 15 mission.
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Fyodor Yurchikhin served as the commander of the Soyuz TMA-19 spacecraft.
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On 18 October 2010, Fyodor Yurchikhin took part in the all-Russian census from space.
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Fyodor Yurchikhin answered questions for the census collectors during a linkup with the Mission Control Center outside Moscow.
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Fyodor Yurchikhin returned to Earth on 26 November 2010 after spending 163 days aboard the ISS.
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Fyodor Yurchikhin served as Soyuz commander aboard Soyuz TMA-09M which launched to the ISS on 28 May 2013, docking some six hours later, with fellow crewmembers NASA astronaut Karen Nyberg and ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano.
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Fyodor Yurchikhin served as flight engineer for Expedition 36, and as ISS commander for Expedition 37.
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Fyodor Yurchikhin served as a flight engineer for Expedition 51, and on 1 June 2017, assumed command of the ISS over from crewmember Peggy Whitson.
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On 30 May 2007, at 19:05 UTC, Fyodor Yurchikhin began his first spacewalk from the Pirs docking compartment airlock.
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On 6 June 2007, Fyodor Yurchikhin performed his second spacewalk from the Pirs docking compartment airlock.
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On 23 July 2007, Fyodor Yurchikhin participated in his third spacewalk along with NASA astronaut Clayton Anderson.
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Fyodor Yurchikhin emerged from the US Quest airlock at 10:24 UTC, to officially begin the spacewalk.
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On 15 November 2010, Fyodor Yurchikhin participated in a spacewalk with cosmonaut and Expedition 25 flight engineer Oleg Skripochka.
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On 24 June 2013, Fyodor Yurchikhin performed a spacewalk with cosmonaut Alexander Misurkin.
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On 16 August 2013, Fyodor Yurchikhin performed his seventh spacewalk with cosmonaut Alexander Misurkin.
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On 22 August 2013, Fyodor Yurchikhin performed his eight spacewalk with cosmonaut Alexander Misurkin.
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Misurkin and Fyodor Yurchikhin headed to various sites on the Zvezda module to inspect the antenna covers and tighten screws on six antennas used for providing navigation data during ATV cargo ship rendezvous and docking operations.
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Fyodor Yurchikhin completed the installation of some devices called gap spanners used to help spacewalkers in their movements between the space station modules.
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On 17 August 2017, Fyodor Yurchikhin performed his ninth spacewalk with cosmonaut Sergey Ryazansky.
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Fyodor Yurchikhin is currently seventh on the list of cumulative spacewalk records, with 59 hours, 28 minutes during his 9 spacewalks.