30 SEP. 2010
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Soyuz TMA-21
Expeditions 27 and 28 flight engineer
For Alexander Samokutyayev, at 40, this was his first time in space. Graduated from the Gagarin Air Force Academy as a pilot-engineer in 2000, he has received various Russian Armed Force medals.
Samokutyaev has flown as pilot, senior pilot and deputy commander of air squadron, logging 680 hours of flight time and performed 250 parachute jumps. He is a Russian Air Force pilot and a qualified diver.
Samokutyaev qualified as a test-cosmonaut in 2005. Since then he joined the International Space Station advanced training as a backup commander and, from 2009, as a flight engineer.
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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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