Yelena Serova

Yelena Serova Olegovna (Russian: Елена Олеговна Серова; born April 22, 1976 in Wosdwischenka, near the town Ussurijsk in Primorsky Krai ) is a Russian cosmonaut who has completed no space flight.

Training

Serova graduated in 2001 her studies at the Moscow State Aviation Institute as a test engineer from. In 2003, then was followed by a degree in economics at the Moscow University for instrument development and computer science. Prior to your admission to the cosmonaut program, she worked as a technician in the aerospace corporation Energia and the Mission Control Center in Korolev near Moscow.

Spaceman activity

In 2006, Serova was included in the cosmonaut training group RKKE -16. Basic training lasted from 26 February 2007 to June 2, 2009, that she was "well " as Testkosmonautin graduated with the title. In 2011, then followed the nomination for the flight Soyuz TMA- 14M, in which it is classified as a board engineer. On the ISS, it is a member of the core team for the ISS Expeditions 41 and 42 Serova is to be the first Russian cosmonaut to fly to the ISS and is only the fourth Russian woman who completed a space flight.

Private

Yelena Serova is married to cosmonaut Mark Serov, which is excreted health reasons without space flight from the cosmonaut corps. The two have a daughter who was born in 2004.