Sergei Treshchov
Sergei Jewgenjewitsch Treschtschow (Russian: Сергей Евгеньевич Трещёв, scientific transliteration Sergei Evgen'evič Treščëv; born August 18, 1958 in Krasnui handicraftsman, Lipetsk Oblast, Russian SFSR ) is a Russian cosmonaut.
Education and employment
After his schooling Treschtschow studied until 1982 at the Moscow Energy Institute. Thereafter he served for two years as a group leader of a regiment of the Soviet Air Force. In 1984 he took a job at the aerospace company RKK Energia as an engineer and foreman. There he worked for the analysis and planning of the activities of the astronauts aboard space stations. He also wrote technical documentation and coordinated together with the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Centre, the training of cosmonauts. His responsibilities included the support of the team during the landing and the training of emergency rescues for the crew of the space station Mir. To this end, he also took part in ground tests to optimize the life support system ЭУ367/734.
Astronaut training
1992 Sergei Treschtschow was selected for the RKK Energiya - cosmonaut group and completed until 1994, the cosmonaut training base. The next three years he participated in the advanced workout.
From June 1997 to February 1998 Treschtschow trained as a backup flight engineer for the long-term mission Mir EO - 25th Then he took from June 1999 to July 2000 in the preparation of the ISS Expedition 3 as a flight engineer of the backup crew part.
Space flights
ISS Expedition 5
The fifth crew ( ISS Expedition 5 ) of the International Space Station was launched on 5 June 2002 on board the U.S. space shuttle Endeavour during the STS- 111 and docked with the ISS on June 7 at.
Sergei Treschtschow led an outboard activity during his six -month stay on the space station. He and his colleague Valeri Korzun installed a container on the Zarya module, which should include equipment for later exits. They also brought in new material samples for the experiment material of the Japanese Space Agency JAXA on the Zvezda module. In addition, some fixings for safety lines in extravehicular activities and additional radio antennas were mounted for amateur radio ( ARISS project).
The fifth ISS crew returned on 7 December 2002 with the Space Shuttle Endeavour during the STS- 113 back to Earth.