Valeri Tokarev

  • STS -96 ( 1999)
  • Soyuz TMA- 7 (2005/2006)   ISS Expedition 12

Valeri Ivanovich Tokarev (Russian Валерий Иванович Токарев, scientific transliteration Valery Ivanovich Tokarev, born October 29, 1952 in Kapustin Yar, Astrakhan Oblast, Russian SFSR ) is a Russian cosmonaut.

He is a colonel in the Russian Air Force and test cosmonaut at the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center. He is married and has two children.

Tokarev flew the Space Shuttle mission STS -96 from May 27 to June 6, 1999. During the ten- day mission, he transported his crew four tons of supplies to the International Space Station ( ISS) and made it ready for the first permanent crew ISS Expedition 1

With the flight of the Soyuz TMA -7 on October 1, 2005, he took up his duties on the ISS as part of the ISS Expedition 12. He spent within the framework of this mission almost 188 days on the International Space Station.

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