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Skripochka, Oleg Ivanovich
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Status: Active 1997-on. Born: 1969-12-24. Spaceflights: 2 . Total time in space: 331.52 days. Birth Place: Nevinnomyssk, Stavropol.

Official NASA Biography as of June 2016:Skripochka Oleg Ivanovich
soyuz tma flight engineer
iss flight engineer
RSC energia Test-Cosmonaut

PERSONAL DATA:  Born December 24, 1969 in Nevinnomysk, Stavropol Region, Russia.  Married to Elena Vladimirovna Milovanova.  They have a daughter, Darya, born in 2005, and a son, Denis, born in 2008.  Oleg's hobbies include parachute sport and bicycle tourism. 

EDUCATION:  Graduated from physics and mathematics high school #28 Zaporozhye in 1987 where he was a member of the Young Cosmonauts group named after V. Komarov.  He then entered the Bauman State Technical University.  He graduated in 1993 with a bachelor degree in mechanical engineering. 

AWARDS:  €œGagarin pin€� from the Federal Space Agancy. 

EXPERIENCE:  From 1987 through 1991, Skripochka had work experience at RSC Energia as a test subject, test mechanic, and as a mechanic from 1991 to 1993 at the project department.  After graduating from the Bauman State Technical University he worked at the Russian Space Corporation Energia from 1993 - 1997 as an engineer at the transport and cargo vehicles ground hardware development and testing project department.  Oleg is a 1st class sky diver with 300 parachute jumps.

SPACEFLIGHT TRAINING:  In August 1997,  he was selected  as an RSC Energia cosmonaut-candidate. 

From December 1997 - November 1999,  he completed basic spaceflight training.  In November, 1999 he was qualified as a test cosmonaut.

Since January 2000,  he trained in the test-cosmonaut group for the ISS program.

From April, 2007 - April, 2008 he trained as an ISS-17 backup crewmember (Soyuz TMA and ISS flight engineer).

Skripochka served as flight engineer aboard the Soyuz TMA-M when it launched October 7, 2010 to the International Space Station.  During his 5-month stay aboard the station, he served as a flight engineer for Expedition 25/26, spending 159 days in space.

MARCH 2011

• Birth of Oleg Ivanovich Skripochka - . Nation: Russia. Related Persons: Skripochka. Russian engineer cosmonaut, 1997-on. Civilian Engineer, Energia NPO 2 spaceflights, 331.5 days in space. Flew to orbit on Soyuz TMA-01M (2010), Soyuz TMA-20M..

• Energia Engineer Cosmonaut Training Group 14 selected. - . Nation: Russia. Related Persons: Skripochka, Yurchikhin.

• Soyuz TMA-3A (cancelled) - . Crew: Dezhurov, Kuipers, Skripochka. Nation: Russia. Related Persons: Dezhurov, Kuipers, Skripochka. Agency: RAKA. Program: ISS. Class: Manned. Type: Manned spacecraft. Flight: Soyuz TMA-3A. Spacecraft Bus: Soyuz. Spacecraft: Soyuz TMA.

  Soyuz TMA-3 was originally to switch lifeboats on the International Space Station. The crew would have returned to earth in the Soyuz TMA-2 already docked to the station. After the Columbia disaster, the remaining shuttles were grounded. The Soyuz was then the only means of keeping the station manned. It was therefore decided that Soyuz TMA-3 would fly with the skeleton crew of Foale and Kaleri.

• Soyuz TMA-01M - . Call Sign: Ingul. Crew: Kaleri, Kelly, Scott, Skripochka. Backup Crew: Garan, Kononenko, Volkov, Sergey. Payload: Soyuz TMA s/n 701. Mass: 7,200 kg (15,800 lb). Nation: Russia. Agency: RKA. Program: ISS. Class: Manned. Type: Manned spacecraft. Flight: Soyuz TMA-01M. Spacecraft Bus: Soyuz. Spacecraft: Soyuz TMA. Duration: 159.78 days. Decay Date: 2011-03-16 . USAF Sat Cat: 37183 . COSPAR: 2010-052A. Apogee: 355 km (220 mi). Perigee: 350 km (210 mi). Inclination: 51.60 deg. Period: 91.60 min. ISS EO-25 crew. The Soyuz docked at the Poisk module of the ISS at 00:01 GMT on 10 October. The crew entered the spacecraft and undocked at 04:27 GMT on 16 March 2011. Following retrofire and re-entry they landed safely in Kazakhstan at 07:53 GMT..

• EVA ISS EO-25-1 - . Crew: Skripochka, Yurchikhin. EVA Duration: 0.27 days. Nation: Russia. Program: ISS. Flight: Soyuz TMA-01M, Soyuz TMA-19. Removed and installed various equipment items and experiments on the exterior of the Russian Zvezda, Poisk, Zarya, and Pirs modules..

• EVA ISS EO-26-1 - . Crew: Kondratiyev, Skripochka. EVA Duration: 0.22 days. Nation: Russia. Program: ISS. Flight: Soyuz TMA-01M, Soyuz TMA-20. Installed television cameras and retrieved exposed experiments on the Zvezda and Rassvet modules..

• EVA ISS EO-26-2 - . Crew: Kondratiyev, Skripochka. EVA Duration: 0.20 days. Nation: Russia. Program: ISS. Flight: Soyuz TMA-01M, Soyuz TMA-20. Installed two earth-observation experiments on Zvezda, removed two material exposure experiments from Zarya..

• Soyuz TMA-18M - . Call Sign: Eridanus. Crew: Aimbetov, Mogensen, Volkov, Sergey. Backup Crew: Skripochka, Pesquet, Prokopyev. Return Crew: Volkov, Sergey, Kelly, Scott, Korniyenko. Payload: Soyuz TMA s/n 718. Mass: 7,200 kg (15,800 lb). Nation: Russia. Program: ISS. Class: Manned. Type: Manned spacecraft. Flight: Soyuz TMA-18M. Spacecraft Bus: Soyuz. Spacecraft: Soyuz TMA. Duration: 181.99 days. Decay Date: 2016-03-02 04:25:00 . USAF Sat Cat: 40885 . COSPAR: 2015-043A. Apogee: 406 km (252 mi). Perigee: 398 km (247 mi). Inclination: 51.65 deg. Period: 92.60 min.

  Docked with ISS at the Poisk port at 07:39 GMT on 4 September. On Mar 2 at 0102 UTC Volkov, Kornienko and Kelly, aboard Soyuz TMA-18M, undocked from the Poisk module, concluding Expedition 46. Tim Kopra then became commander of Expedition 47, with flight engineers Yuriy Malenchenko and Tim Peake. Soyuz TMA-18M made the deorbit burn at 0332 UTC and landed in Kazakhstan at 0426 UTC. Soyuz commander Volkov had spent six months in space, while Kornienko and Kelly completed 340d 8h 21min in space, or about 0.93 years.

• Soyuz TMA-20M - . Call Sign: Kazbek. Crew: Ovchinin, Skripochka, Williams, Jeffrey. Backup Crew: Ryzhikov, Borisenko, Kimbrough. Return Crew: Ovchinin, Skripochka, Williams, Jeffrey. Nation: Russia. Program: ISS. Class: Manned. Type: Manned spacecraft. Flight: Soyuz TMA-20M. Spacecraft Bus: Soyuz. Spacecraft: Soyuz TMA. Duration: 172.16 days. Decay Date: 2016-09-07 01:13:00 . USAF Sat Cat: 41391 . COSPAR: 2016-018A. Apogee: 230 km (140 mi). Perigee: 193 km (119 mi). Inclination: 51.60 deg.

  Soyuz TMA-20M was launched carrying Alexey Ovchinin, Oleg Skripochka and Jeff Williams. This was the last of the 11F732A47 Soyuz TMA-M series, which were replaced by the improved Soyuz-MS variant. On Sep 6 at 2151 UTC Soyuz TMA-20M undocked from the Poisk module with Ovchinin, Skripochka and Williams. The spacecraft laded in Kazakhstan at 0113 UTC on Sep 7.