Sergei Avdeyev

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Date of Birth: 1/1/1956

Status: Retired

Nationality: Russia

Agency: Russian Federal Space Agency (ROSCOSMOS) (RFSA)

Biography

Sergei Vasilyevich Avdeyev (Сергей Васильеви Авдеев; born 1 January 1956) is a Russian engineer and cosmonaut. Avdeyev was born in Chapayevsk, Samara Oblast (formerly Kuybyshev Oblast), Russian SFSR. He graduated from Moscow Physics-Engineering Institute in 1979 as an engineer-physicist. From 1979 to 1987 he worked as an engineer for NPO Energiya. He was selected as a cosmonaut as part of the Energia Engineer Group 9 on 26 March 1987. His basic cosmonaut training was from December 1987 through to July 1989. He retired as a cosmonaut on 14 February 2003. Avdeyev at one point held the record for cumulative time spent in space with 747.59 days in earth orbit, accumulated through three tours of duty aboard the Mir Space Station. He has orbited the earth 11,968 times traveling about 515,000,000 kilometers.

Space Experience

Time in Space: 747 days, 14 hours, 13 minutes, and 4 seconds

Number of Flights: 3

Number of Landings: 3

Number of Spacewalks: 10

EVA Time: 1 day and 18 hours

First Flight: 7/27/1992

Last Flight: 8/13/1998