Pavel Vinogradov

• Mir EO -24   Soyuz TM- 26 (1997/1998)

• ISS Expedition 13

• ISS Expedition 35
• ISS Expedition 36

Pavel Vinogradov (Russian Павел Владимирович Виноградов, scientific transliteration Pavel Vinogradov Vladimirovič; born August 31, 1953 in Magadan, Magadan Oblast, Russian SFSR ) is a Russian cosmonaut.

Training

Vinogradov comes from the capital of the Russian administrative region of Magadan. After matriculation he went to Moscow and began in September 1970 an apprenticeship at the State Aviation Institute (MAI ). He was trained to spin, until he started to study in the Department of Aircraft in the Department of rocket production a year later. In March 1977, he was awarded in May with a degree in mechanical engineering. He then moved to the Department of automatic construction systems and became a systems analyst trained ( completion 1980). He developed computer programs for the design of reusable spacecraft and software for aerodynamic models.

Vinogradov began in 1983 as an engineer in the design office at NPO Energia ( NPOE ) to which was at the time still "Central Design Office for experimental engineering ". He had been involved in tests of the crew cabin of the Soyuz -TM spacecraft on the coupling mechanism of the space shuttle Buran, as well as new educational tools for the training of cosmonauts.

Cosmonauts activity

Vinogradov changed on 2 June 1992 in the Department of cosmonauts NPOE, after he was selected along with Sergei Treschtschow and Alexander Lasutkin on 3 March ( 10 NPOE group). The one and a half years of basic training began in October in the " Star City " in Moscow and was completed in February 1994. This is followed by a further leading price closed at which lasted nine months, and where he learned survival training and parachuting.

Pavel Vinogradov was appointed in February 1995 in the backup crew of the 20th resident crew of space station Mir. Half a year later he was appointed as a flight engineer of the crew of Soyuz TM -24. Together with his commander Gennady Manakov he trained for a six-month stay on Mir until he was diagnosed with problems at the heart of Manakov in July 1996. Since Russian crews will never torn apart, the team was replaced just one week before the start of their replacements.

From August 1996 Vinogradov trained as a flight engineer of Soyuz TM- 26th The mission began on 5 August 1997 under the command of Anatoly Solovyov. Two days later, the cosmonauts reached the Mir station. During their six-month program, the two -member crew also received the American visit. STS -86 made ​​in 1997 left grip and STS -89 between the 24 and January 29, 1998 Vinogradov and Solovyov between 27 September and 3 October five times the Space Station to perform outboard activities. Your detachment came with Soyuz TM -27 end of January 1998 together with the French guest cosmonauts Léopold Eyharts on. Both crews worked together three weeks before Solovyov, Vinogradov and Eyharts returned to Earth on 19 February 1998.

Shortly thereafter, Vinogradov was combined with Valeri Korzun to a new crew. You should be a backup crew for the third and the crew for the fifth resident crew of the International Space Station (ISS ). A year later, in February 1999, Vinogradov was replaced by his colleague Sergei Treschtschow. But Pavel Vinogradov should now provide a flight engineer with Salizhan Sharipov spare crew of Soyuz TM -30. Then had planned to send them as 29 crew to Mir. Before this could happen, but the station was shut down.

From January 2001, Vinogradov attended a basic course for the systems of the ISS until he was appointed in early February 2003 Head of the cosmonaut Department of NPOE.

Since January 2004, Vinogradov was training for his efforts as Commander of the ISS Expedition 13 Together with the American Jeffrey Williams and Brazilian Marcos Pontes he broke the end of March 2006 in the direction of the space station. Guest cosmonaut Pontes flew to one and a half weeks along with the twelfth long-term crew back to Earth. Vinogradov and Williams left early June for six and a half hours, the space station for maintenance. Five weeks later made ​​STS -121 stop at the ISS and brought alongside food, equipment and experiments, another crew member - Thomas Reiter. The German still remained on board as commander Vinogradov and his flight engineer Williams after six months with Soyuz TMA -8 September 2006, her stay in orbit ended.

To his third long-duration flight broke Vinogradov on March 28, 2013. As Commander, he steered the spacecraft Soyuz TMA- 08M to the ISS. He works as a flight engineer of the ISS Expedition 35 On April 19, 2013 Vinogradov graduated along with his Russian counterpart Roman Romanenko his seventh spacewalk. They exchanged several scientific experiments on the outer skin of the ISS and installed a new navigation aid, with an experiment box with metal samples entschwebte .. After the decoupling of the spaceship Soyuz TMA- 07M on 13 May 2013 took Vinogradov command of the ISS, the crew thus belonged to the ISS expedition 36 the return to Earth on 11 September 2013. with 546 days in space Vinogradov was then at No. 9 of spaceman with the longest stay in space, at age 60, he was ranked 6 of the oldest spaceman.

Pavel Vinogradov is married and has three children.