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Soyuz TMA-01M flight engineer
Expeditions 25 and 26 flight engineer
Aged 41, Oleg Skripochka was 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 qualified as a test cosmonaut. Since then he trained in the test-cosmonaut group for the International Space Station programme. This was his first spaceflight.
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Paolo Nespoli heads to Space Station on MagISStra mission
ESA PR 30-2010 ESA astronaut Paolo Nespoli is on his way to the International Space Station with crewmates Dmitri Kondratyev and Catherine Coleman aboard their Soyuz spacecraft following liftoff from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 20:09:25 CET today.
MagISStra mission: Information for the media
ESA's astronaut Paolo Nespoli will be launched in a Soyuz TMA spacecraft from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on 15 December at 20:09 CET with Dmitri Kondratyev and Catherine Coleman for a challenging 6-month mission on the International Space Station (ISS) as members of Expeditions 26/27.
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