Oleg Kotov
- Soyuz TMA -10 ( 2007) ISS Expedition 15
- ISS Expedition 22
- ISS Expedition 23
- ISS Expedition 37
- ISS Expedition 38
Oleg Kotov Valeryevich (Russian Олег Валерьевич Котов; born October 27, 1965 in Simferopol, Ukrainian SSR, USSR ) is a Russian cosmonaut.
Training
From 1982 to 1988 Kotov graduated from the Military Medical Academy SM Kirov in St Petersburg. After his graduation he worked as a doctor at the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center and was selected in 1996 as a cosmonaut candidate.
Kosmonautentätigleit
Kotov was in the backup crew for a flight to the Mir space station on Soyuz TM- 28th
He was selected for the 15 long-term crew of the International Space Station ( ISS). As commander of Soyuz TMA -10, he launched on April 7, 2007 on the ISS. He worked as a flight engineer total of 196 days aboard the station and ended 21 October 2007 again in the Kazakh steppe. The landing was not quite easy because most likely was due to a computer error, the landing point a few hundred kilometers west than anticipated.
On his second space flight Kotov was divided in November 2008. He was commander of the spaceship Soyuz TMA -17, which launched to the ISS on 20 December 2009. He worked there until March 2010 as a Flight Engineer of ISS Expedition 22 After the departure of Soyuz TMA -16, he became commander of the ISS Expedition 23 The return to Earth was made on June 2, 2010.
Kotows third space flight began on September 25, 2013, when he started in the Soyuz TMA -10M together with Sergei Rjasanski and Michael Hopkins to the ISS and on the following day docked there. He first worked as a flight engineer of the ISS Expedition 37 and took over on 10 November 2013, the command of the ISS Expedition 38 After returning to Earth on March 11, 2014, he was with 526 days in space in 13th place of the ranking of the most experienced spacemen.