Mikhail Tyurin
- ISS Expedition 14
- ISS Expedition 38
- ISS Expedition 39
Mikhail Vladislavovich "Misha " Tyurin (Russian: Михаил Владиславович Тюрин, scientific transliteration Mikhail Tyurin Vladislavovič; born March 2, 1960 in Kolomna, Russian SFSR ) is a Russian cosmonaut.
Tyurin in 1984, the State Aviation Institute in Moscow, where he specialized in the creation of mathematical models, with an engineering degree as an aircraft mechanic from. The Russian space company RKK Energiya then employed him as an engineer in the field of cosmonaut training. There he was commissioned to make the training in procedures in the Soyuz spacecraft efficient. He also worked in computer programs.
Cosmonauts activity
In April 1994, Tyurin was selected for the cosmonaut corps. He completed the next three years in the " Star City " the basic training and was then prepared for his first space flight: from the summer of 1997, he trained as a flight engineer for the backup crew of Expedition 1 on the International Space Station (ISS ) and then to the flight crew of the next long-term crew.
Together with Frank Culbertson and Vladimir Tyurin Dezhurov formed the ISS Expedition 3, which launched in August 2001 to the space station. As a feeder acted the Space Shuttle mission STS- 105, the detached ISS Expedition 2 brought to Earth during their return flight back. Culbertson, Tyurin and Dezhurov worked four months on the ISS and were picked up with STS- 108.
As of December 2003, Tyurin prepared for future long-term teams of the Space Station. First, in the "second row " as a member of replacement crews (commander of ISS Expedition 11 Flight Engineer of ISS Expedition 12), he was eventually selected for the main team of 14 crew.
Tyurin was Flight Engineer of ISS Expedition 14, which launched on 18 September 2006 with Soyuz TMA -9 and ended on 21 April 2007.
To his third spaceflight, he launched on 7 November 2013 as the commander of Soyuz TMA -11M. As a member of the ISS Expeditionenen 38 and 39 he worked from November 2013 to May 2014 as a flight engineer on the ISS.