Sergei Avdeyev
- Mir EO -12 Soyuz TM- 15 (1992/1993)
- Soyuz TM- 22 (1995/1996)
- Soyuz TM -29 TM-28/Sojus (1998/ 1999)
Sergei Vasilyevich Avdeev (Russian: Сергей Васильевич Авдеев; * January 1, 1956 Chapayevsk, Kuibyshev Oblast, Russian SFSR ) is a former Russian cosmonaut.
Avdeev is married and has two children. His hobbies include nuclear physics, sports and games. He is also a radio amateur and has the callsign RV3DW.
Training
Avdeev graduated in 1979 from the Moscow Physical Engineering Institute of Engineering Physics. From 1979 to 1987 he worked as an engineer for NPO Energia. He was selected on 26 March 1987 as a cosmonaut for the Energia - engineering group 9 and received his basic training from December 1987 to July 1989. On 14 February 2003, he retired from the active career of.
Space flights
Sergei Avdeev held from 1999 the record for the longest time spent in space with a total time 747.59 days. This sum he reached with three stays on the Russian space station Mir. He orbited the Earth 11,968 times and put it back a distance of about 515 million kilometers. Only in August 2005, this record was broken by Sergei Krikaljow, in February 2011 Avdeev was surpassed by Alexander Jurjewitsch Kaleri so that it is now # 3 on the spaceman with the most experience in space.
Interestingly, Avdeyev birthday was during the period of three space flights, respectively. He is the spaceman, who celebrated most birthdays in space.