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Oleg Skripochka
- Soyuz TMA-01M flight engineer
- Expeditions 25 and 26 flight engineer
Aged 41, Oleg Skripochka will be the youngest crewmember in the Station during Expedition 26. Born in south-western Russia, he was a member of the Young Cosmonauts group during high school.
For more than a decade Skripochka worked at the Russian Space Corporation Energia as a test subject, test mechanic and as a mechanic in the project department.
After graduating from the Bauman State Technical University with a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering he worked at Energia in the transport and cargo vehicles ground hardware development and testing project department.
Oleg is a skydiver first class, with 300 parachute jumps. In November, 1999 he was qualified as a test cosmonaut. Since then he has been training in the test-cosmonaut group for the ISS programme. This is his first spaceflight.
Last update: 7 October 2010
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