Aleksandr aleksandrovič Skvorcov – Wikipedia

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Aleksandr aleksandrovič skvorcov (In Russian: александр алексаннnterto скворцов; Ščëlkovo, 6 May 1966) is a cosmonaut, aviator and Russian officer.

The father, Alexander Skvorcov, is a former cosmonaut selected in 1965 but who has never flown into space. He is married to Elena Grigor’evna Skvorcova (Krasnikova) and have a daughter (Anna, 1990). In his spare time he likes to dive, play football and badminton, hunt, fish and travel.

He graduated in the Nº2 high school in the city of Moršansk, in the Oblast ‘in Tamovov, in 1983, and then graduated from the military aviation school for pilots and Stavropol navigators’ like pilot-engineer In 1987. From that moment on, they were at the time of his selection as Cosmonauta has been pilot and (since 1993) flight commander of the 191th aviation regiment based in Efremov, in the oblast of Tula. In 1997 he graduated from the Air Defense Military Academy Georgij Žukov in Tver ‘as a navigator-tactical in the air defense. During his military career he mainly piloted the L-39, MIG-23 and Su-27 planes by accumulating about 1000 flight hours. He retired in 2012 with the degree of Colonel and as a first -class pilot.

On July 28, 1997 he was selected as a Cosmonaut candidate of the TSPK 12 group of the GCTC. From 16 January 1998 to 26 November 1999, he carried out the two years of general training for space ( General Russian training , Оp) and on December 1st he was appointed Cosmonout test. At the beginning of 2000 he began training relating to the flight aboard the ISS, in view of a future mission. On January 25, 2007 he participated in two days of winter survival exercise in the Moscow forest as a crew of the crew, together with the Malaysian Cosmonauts Sheikh Muszapar Shukor and Faiz Bin Khaleed. On April 29, 2022 he retired from the Cosmonauti body of Roscosmos. ^[first]

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Expedition 23/24 [ change | Modifica Wikitesto ]

On November 21, 2008, his assignment to the Expedition 24/25 was made official by NASA. ^[2]On April 1, 2009, the Interdepartmental Commission approved it as commander of the Sojuz Tma-18, flight engineer of the Expedition 23 and commander of the Expedition 24. In the first days of September 2009 the reserve crew of the Sojuz Tma-16 (Skvorcov, Shannon Walker and the space tourist Barbara Barrett) has passed the pre-ovol exams at the GCTC. In 2010 he graduated in Law from the Russian Presidential Academy of the National Economy and the Public Administration. On March 12, 2010 he exceeded the pre-hall exams together with Michail Kornienko and Tracy Caldwell-Dyson as the main crew of the Sojuz Tma-18. He left for his first mission on April 2, 2010 from the Cosmodrome of Bayqoñyr aboard the Sojuz Tma-18 and two days later he attracted himself to ISS. On June 2, 2010, at the release of the Sojuz Tma-17 with the station he became the commander of the ISS, a role he held for almost four months. His return to the ground was scheduled for September 24, after 175 days in space but was postponed by one day for problems in the mouthpiece of the Poisk module. On September 25, 2010 he landed with his crew in the Kazakhstan steppes 35 km south-east from the city of Arkalyk.

Expedition 39/40 [ change | Modifica Wikitesto ]

On March 5, 2014 he completed the GCTC final exams with colleagues Oleg Artem’ev and Steven Swanson. He left for his second mission on March 26, 2014 as the commander of the Sojuz Tma-12m and flight engineer for the Expedition 39/40 aboard the ISS, to which he attracted two days later. On June 19 and August 18, 2014 he carried out two extraveicular activities (Eva) with Artem’ev. In the first Eva installed a telemetry antenna, controlled experiments displayed in the open space, taken samples from the windows of Zvezda and expelled an experiment, while in the second it released a cubesat, installed and taken experiments and added a handrail on the external surface of the segment Russian. On 11 September 2014 at 2:23 UTC, after 169 days in space, Skvorcov and the rest of the Sojuz Tma-12m crew landed in Kazakhstan, 149 kilometers from Zhezkazgan.

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On May 6, 2016 NASA made its assignment as a commander of the Sojuz MS-06 crew (subsequently moved to the Sojuz MS-07) ^[3]But in March 2017 he was declared unsuitable for an injured person who took over during sports and was replaced by Anton Škapplerov.

Expedition 60/61 [ change | Modifica Wikitesto ]

On February 9, 2018 Skvortsov with Luca Parmitano and Andrew Morgan as a crew of the Sojuz MS-13 participated in the winter survival exercise in the snowy forests around Moscow. On November 14, the crew passed the pre-hall exams as a SOJUZ MS-11 reserve team. He left for his third mission on July 20, 2019 aboard the Sojuz MS-13. ^[4]