Alexander Misurkin

Alexander Alexanderovich Misurkin (Russian: Aлександр Aлександрович Мисуркин) (born September 23, 1977), a major in the Russian Air Force, is a Russian cosmonaut, selected in 2006. He flew aboard Soyuz TMA-08M on 28 March 2013 as his first space mission, and launched on Soyuz MS-06 as his second flight, in 2017. He was Commander of the International Space Station for Expedition 54.

Alexander Alexanderovich Misurkin
Aleksandr Misurkin pictured in 2017
Born	(1977-09-23) September 23, 1977 Yershichi, Smolensk Oblast, Russian SFSR
Status	Active
Nationality	Russian
Occupation	Major, Russian Air Force
Space career
RKA Cosmonaut
Time in space	334 days 11 hours 29 minutes
Selection	2006 TsPK-14 Cosmonaut Group
Total EVAs	4
Total EVA time	28 hours and 14 minutes
Missions	Soyuz TMA-08M (Expedition 35/36), Soyuz MS-06 (Expedition 53/54), Soyuz MS-20
Mission insignia

Personal

Misurkin is married to Olga Anatolievna Misurkina. The couple has two children. His parents, Lyudmila Georgievna and Alexander Mikhailovich Misurkin, reside in Oryol, Russia.

Education

In 1994, Misurkin graduated from vocational school #1 in Oryol. He then entered the Kacha High Air Force Pilot School, where he studied to September 1998. He continued pilot training at the Armavir Military Aviation Institute, and graduated in October 1999 with a gold medal as a pilot-engineer.[1]

Cosmonaut career

In October 2006 Misurkin was approved as a cosmonaut candidate and enlisted in the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center Cosmonaut (GCTC) Corps. He took the basic training at GCTC from February 2007 to June 2009, which he completed on 2 June 2009. Misurkin was qualified as a test-cosmonaut 9 June 2009.

From August 2009 to February 2011 he took advanced training specializing in the International Space Station (ISS) program. From January 2011 he trained as the Expedition 33/34 and Soyuz TMA-M backup crew flight engineer.

Soyuz TMA-08M / Expedition 35/36

Misurkin flew on Soyuz TMA-08M which launched at 20:43:20 on 28 March 2013. This was the first manned flight to use the fast rendezvous approach to the International Space Station, reaching the space station in less than 6 hours. Previous flights had required two days to dock with the station. Misurkin joined the crew of ISS Expedition 35.

Soyuz MS-06 / Expedition 53/54

On February 2, 2018 Misurkin along with flight engineer Anton Shkaplerov participated in an 8-hour 13 minutes spacewalk outside of the ISS to replace an old electronics box for a high-gain communications antenna. At completion, the two cosmonauts set a new record for the longest Russian spacewalk to date.[2]

Statistics[3]

#	Spacecraft launch	Launch date	Mission	Spacecraft landing	Landing date	Duration	Spacewalk times	Spacewalk duration
1	Soyuz TMA-08M	28 March 2013, 20:43 UTC	ISS-35 / ISS-36	Soyuz TMA 08M	11 September 2013, 02:58 UTC	166 days 06 hours 15 minutes	3	20 hours 01 minute
2	Soyuz MS-06	12 September 2017, 21:17 UTC	ISS-53 / ISS-54	Soyuz MS-06	28 February 2018, 02:31 UTC	168 days 05 hours 14 minutes	1	8 hours 13 minutes
						334 days 11 hours 29 minutes	4	28 hours 14 minutes

References

Official website  This article incorporates public domain material from websites or documents of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

1. NASA (November 2012). "Biographical Data - Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Misurkin". Archived from the original on 25 August 2013. Retrieved 29 March 2013.
2. "Cosmonauts Break Russian Spacewalk Record During Space Station Antenna Repair". SPACE.com. 2018-02-02. Retrieved 2018-02-03.
3. "Statistics - Aleksandr Misurkin". spacefacts.de. Retrieved 2017-12-24.

Preceded by Randolph Bresnik

ISS Expedition Commander December 14, 2017 - February 28, 2018

Succeeded by Anton Shkaplerov