Mikhail Korniyenko

• Soyuz TMA -18 ( 2010)   ISS Expedition 23
• ISS Expedition 24

Mikhail Borisovich Korniyenko (Russian: Михаил Борисович Корниенко; born April 15, 1960 in Sysran, Samara Oblast, USSR ) is a Russian cosmonaut.

After finishing school Korniyenko worked from 1977 in a factory for radio equipment in Chelyabinsk. In May 1978, he was drafted into the Soviet Army. He served in the parachute troops in Kirovabad in Azerbaijan. From 1980 he was a member of the Moscow Militia. In addition, he studied at the Moscow Aviation Institute, where he received his degree in 1987. From 1986 to 1991 he worked as an engineer at the Space Station at Baikonur. From October 1991 to April 1995 he was employed in the private sector.

In October 1995 he served as an engineer for aerospace company RKK Energia. On February 24, 1998, he was selected as a cosmonaut. He has served as a flight engineer in the backup crew of ISS Expedition 15 flight to the International Space Station with the Soyuz TMA- 10th

Korniyenko was Flight Engineer of ISS Expedition 23 and ISS Expedition 24 The start with the Soyuz TMA -18 to the ISS took place on April 2, 2010. On 27 July 2010 he undertook together with Fyodor Yurchikhin his first spacewalk. On 25 September 2010 he landed in Kazakhstan.

Along with Scott Kelly, he is from the spring of 2015 a year on the ISS stay at the effects of weightlessness on the human body for a longer period to test.

Korniyenko is married and has a grown daughter. In his spare time he likes to go mountain climbing, so he climbed Mount Kilimanjaro in 2007.