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Also known as Gennady Ivanovich Padalka

Russian Air Force officer and an RSA cosmonaut

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Type
Person
Country
RU
Active from
1961-10-18

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

  1. The Sequence of the Human Genome

    · 2001 · cited 10,201x

  2. The Genome Sequence of <i>Drosophila melanogaster</i>

    · 2000 · cited 4,817x

  3. Hyperledger fabric

    · 2018 · cited 3,377x

  4. Genetic meta-analysis of diagnosed Alzheimer’s disease identifies new risk loci and implicates Aβ, tau, immunity and lipid processing

    · 2019 · cited 2,857x

  5. Fast gene set enrichment analysis

    · 2016 · cited 2,730x

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Key facts

Born
Gennady Ivanovich Padalka , ( 1958-06-21 ) 21 June 1958 (age 67) , Krasnodar , Russian SFSR , USSR
Alma mater
Yeysk Military Aviation College
Occupation
Pilot
Awards
Hero of the Russian Federation Pilot-Cosmonaut of the Russian Federation Order of Merit for the Fatherland
Status
Retired
Rank
Colonel , Russian Air Force
Time in space
878 days, 11 hours, and 29 minutes
Selection
TsPK-10 Cosmonaut Group (1989)
Total eva time
38 hours and 40 minutes
Missions
Soyuz TM-28 ( Mir EO-26 ) Soyuz TMA-4 ( Expedition 9 ) Soyuz TMA-14 ( Expedition 19 / 20 ) Soyuz TMA-04M ( Expedition 31 / 32 ) Soyuz TMA-16M ( Expedition 43 / 44 )
Retirement
28 April 2017

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
human
Given name
Gennady
Gender
male
Citizenship
Soviet Union
Place of birth
Russia
Languages spoken
Russian
Native language
Russian
Military branch
Russian Air Force
Image
Padalka.jpg
Significant event
extra-vehicular activity
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member of
Expedition 44
Commons category
Gennady Padalka
date of birth
1958-06-21
time in space
1265009
allegiance
Russia
member of the crew of
Soyuz TM-28
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Encyclopedic overview

Gennady Ivanovich Padalka (Russian: Гeнна́дий Ива́нович Па́далка; born 21 June 1958 in Krasnodar, Soviet Union) is a Russian Air Force officer and Roscosmos cosmonaut. Padalka is the only person to have served as commander of the International Space Station (ISS) four times. He previously held the record for the most time spent in space at 878 days until Oleg Kononenko broke this record on February 4, 2024 at 07:30:08 UTC and is currently at 2nd position. He worked on both Mir and the International Space Station.

Personal life

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Gennady Padalka” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.