Alexander Grebenkin
Alexander Grebenkin | |
|---|---|
| Александр Гребёнкин | |
 | |
| Born | July 15, 1982 |
| Status | Active |
| Nationality | Russian |
| Occupation | Test cosmonaut |
| Space career | |
| Roscosmoscosmonaut | |
Time in space | 135 days, 6 hours, 21 minutes (currently in space) |
| Missions | SpaceX Crew-8(Expedition 70/71) |
Mission insignia |    |
Alexander Sergeyevich Grebenkin(Russian: Александр Сергеевич Гребёнкин; born July 15, 1982) is a Russiancosmonautcurrently on theSpaceX Crew-8mission.
Before joining thecosmonaut corps,he served in the technical and operational units of theAir Forceof theAerospace Forcesof theRussian Armed Forces.
Biography[edit]
Grebenkin graduated from theIrkutsk Military Aerospace Engineering Institutewith the qualification of "technician diploma"in the specialty" Technical operation of transportradio-electronics"on June 21, 2002.[1]
From July 2002 to November 6, 2018, he served at theKubinka airbasein theMoscow region.
On March 15, 2011, he graduated in absentia from the Moscow Technical University of Communications and Informatics with the qualification of "engineer" in the specialty "Radio communications,Broadcasting and Television.[2]
Military career[edit]
From July 2002 to July 2005, Grebenkin served as an aircraft readiness technician inNovy Gorodok,Odintsovsky District.From July 2005 to October 2010, he worked as an engineer. First, as a technician and engineer for preparing aircraft for flights according to the avionics of theSwifts aerobatic team,then, from November 2009 to January 2011, as an engineer and head of the regulations and repair group of a military unit.
In January 2011, Grebyonkin was appointed head of the technical and operational unit of the 237th I.N. Kozhedub Aviation Equipment Display Center, and was awarded the military rank of major.[2][3]
Cosmonaut career[edit]
On March 14, 2017, Grebyonkin applied for recruitment to the cosmonaut corps of theYuri Gagarin Scientific Research Institute of Cosmonauts.On August 9, 2018, his candidacy was considered at a meeting of the competition commission and on August 10, 2018 he was named a candidate for astronauts.[4]
On November 6, 2018, he was transferred to theYuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center(CTC), enrolled in the cosmonaut corps and began general space training.[5]
From February 26 to 28, 2019, as part of a mock crew, together with Alexander Gorbunov and CTC instructor Dmitry Sukhanov, he took part in training on actions after landing in a wooded and swampy area in winter ( "winter survival" ). From August 26 to August 30, as part of a group of cosmonaut candidates, he underwent diving training at theNoginsk Rescue Centerof theRussian Emergencies Ministry.On August 30, 2019, he passed the exam, and was awarded the qualification "diver". In October 2019, as part of a conditional crew, together with Alexei Zubritsky and Evgeny Prokopyev, he went through a full cycle of "water survival" ( "dry", "long" and "short" training) at the Universal Marine Terminal Base, "Imeretinsky",on the Black Sea in theAdler districtof the city ofSochi.[3][2]
Grebyonkin was selected in the class of2018 group of Russian cosmonauts.On November 24, 2020, he passed the State exam following the completion of the general space training course. On December 2, 2020, by the decision of the Interdepartmental Qualification Commission (MVK), following the results of a meeting at the Yu. A. Gagarin CTC, he was awarded the qualification of a test cosmonaut.[3]
In July 2021, as part of a mock crew, together with Alexander Gorbunov and Alexei Zubritsky, he participated in a two-day training session to practice actions after landing a spacecraft in the desert.[3]
On January 20, 2022, at a meeting of the Roscosmos Interdepartmental Commission, he was approved as Flight Engineer 2 of theInternational Space StationExpedition 71.He then began to train withSergei Ryzhikovand Sergei Mikayev. They participated in training on actions after landing the spacecraft on the water surface, which took place on the basis of the 179th Center of the Ministry of Emergency Situations in Noginsk. On February 14, 2023, the same crew, along with astronautDonald Pettit,practiced survival skills in the winter forest.[3]
On March 1, 2023, at a meeting of the Interdepartmental Commission of the State Corporation Roscosmos, he was appointed as a stand-in for cosmonautKonstantin Borisovon the flight of theSpaceX Crew-7mission and was included in the prime crew of the American spacecraft Crew Dragon (SpaceX Crew-8 mission), which launched to the ISS on 4 March 2024.[3]
On July 11, 2023, by the decision of the main medical commission of the Yu.A. Gagarin, Grebenkin was declared fit for spaceflight for health reasons.[4]
Flight[edit]
Grebenkin launched withSpaceX Crew-8on 4 March 2024, to serve as a Flight Engineer onExpedition 70/71,where he is expected to stay 6 months.[5]
References[edit]
- ^"Alexander Sergeevich Grebyonkin. The results of the MVC for the selection to the cosmonaut corps".roscosmos.ru.
- ^abc"Центр подготовки космонавтов им. Ю.А.Гагарина. Официальный Web-сайт".gctc.ru(in Russian).Retrieved2023-08-15.
- ^abcdef"Александр Сергеевич Гребёнкин".astronaut.ru.Retrieved2023-08-15.
- ^ab"Roscosmos cosmonauts Konstantin Borisov and Alexander Grebenkin declared fit for space flight".roscosmos.ru.Retrieved12 July2023.
- ^ab"Cosmonaut Biography: Aleksandr Grebyonkin".spacefacts.de.Retrieved2023-08-16.
