16 Facts About Mikhail Kornienko

Mikhail Borisovich Kornienko is a Russian cosmonaut who has undertaken multiple missions to the International Space Station.

Mikhail Kornienko first served as a flight engineer during Expedition 23 and 24 in 2010.

Mikhail Kornienko's mother, Faina M Kornienko, born in 1931 is retired.

Mikhail Kornienko graduated from secondary school No 15, Chelyabinsk, Russia, in 1977.

In May 1978, Mikhail Kornienko was called to service in the Soviet Army.

Mikhail Kornienko worked for the Moscow Municipal Militsiya from 1980 to 1986.

Mikhail Kornienko resigned from the Militsiya in 1986 and entered a mechanical engineering design bureau.

Mikhail Kornienko worked for commercial companies between late 1991 to early 1995.

In October 1995, Mikhail Kornienko started working at the Energia Rocket Space Corporation as an engineer.

Mikhail Kornienko was assigned to develop technical documentation for cosmonaut primary and backup crew tests and training.

Mikhail Kornienko took part in extravehicular activity tests in simulated zero-gravity at the hydrolab and at the Selen dynamic stand.

Mikhail Kornienko directly participated in testing the Energia RSC production on the testing ground.

On 24 February 1998, Mikhail Kornienko was selected as a test cosmonaut candidate and, in 1999, following basic training at the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center, he was qualified as a test cosmonaut.

Mikhail Kornienko served on the ISS Expedition 8 backup crew as a flight engineer.

Mikhail Kornienko lifted off on 2 April 2010, along with fellow Russian cosmonaut Aleksandr Skvortsov and NASA astronaut Tracy Caldwell-Dyson aboard Soyuz TMA-18 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome.

Kelly and Mikhail Kornienko launched aboard a Russian Soyuz spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan in March 2015 and landed on 1 March 2016 at 22:00.