Key facts
- Born
- ( 1959-01-03 ) 3 January 1959 (age 67) , Batumi , Adjarian ASSR , Georgian SSR , Soviet Union
- Occupation
- Cosmonaut
- Awards
- Hero of the Russian Federation
- Current occupation
- Mechanical engineer
- Status
- Retired
- Time in space
- 672 days 20 hours 38 minutes
- Selection
- 1997 RKKE Cosmonaut Group
- Total eva time
- 59 hours and 28 minutes
- Missions
- STS-112 , Soyuz TMA-10 ( Expedition 15 ), Soyuz TMA-19 ( Expedition 24 / 25 ), Soyuz TMA-09M ( Expedition 36 / 37 ), Soyuz MS-04 ( Expedition 51 / 52 )
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Russia
- Place of birth
- Batumi
- Occupation
- aircraft pilot
- Educated at
- Moscow Aviation Institute
- Languages spoken
- Russian
- Image
- Yurchikhin.jpg
- Significant event
- extra-vehicular activity
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- name in native language
- Фёдор Николаевич Юрчихин
- date of birth
- 1959-01-03
- Commons category
- Fyodor Yurchikhin
- P450
- Expedition 52
- time in space
- 968918
- member of the crew of
- Soyuz TMA-09M
- member of
- Expedition 52
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Encyclopedic overview
Fyodor Nikolayevich Yurchikhin (Russian: Фёдор Николаевич Юрчихин, Greek: Θεόδωρος Γιουρτσίχιν του Νικόλαου; born 3 January 1959) is a Russian cosmonaut of Pontic Greek descent, engineer and RSC Energia test-pilot who has flown on five spaceflights. His first spaceflight was a 10-day Space Shuttle mission STS-112. His second was a long-duration stay aboard the International Space Station (ISS) as a flight engineer for Expedition 15; for this mission he was launched in the Soyuz TMA-10 spacecraft. He has undertaken two further long-duration stays aboard the ISS, as a crew member of Expedition 24 / 25. For this mission he was launched with the spacecraft Soyuz TMA-19, and he landed in November 2010, also with the Soyuz TMA-19 spacecraft. He served as Soyuz commander for his fourth mission aboard Soyuz TMA-09M, as flight engineer for Expedition 36 and ISS commander for Expedition 37. In April 2017, Yurchikhin launched on Soyuz MS-04 for the fifth spaceflight of his career, a six-month mission to the ISS as part of Expedition 51 and 52, for which he was the commander.
Early life and family
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Fyodor Yurchikhin” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.