Fyodor Yurchikhin

Who is Fyodor Yurchikhin?

Fyodor Nikolayevich Yurchikhin, is a Russian cosmonaut and RSC Energia test-pilot who has flown on three 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 as a Flight Engineer for Expedition 15; for this mission he was launched in the Soyuz TMA-10 spacecraft. His most recent mission was another long-duration stay 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 TMA-19 spacecraft. Fyodor is now in the International Space Station at Expedition 36 and Fyodor will be back in 10 November. After returning from the current expedition he will have spent 457 days in space.