Kotov

Oleg Valeriyevich

USSR/CIS

International order nº: 455

Russian cosm. nº: 98

Personal data:

Birthdate:  27 Oct 1965
Birthplace:  Simferopol / Simferopol Oblast / UKRAINE
Marital status:  married
Children:  two
Selection date:  09 Feb 1996
Selection group: MKS - Kirov Military Medical Academy - Physician VVS
Job:  Research cosmonaut (RC) / Test cosmonaut (TC)
Status:  active
Kotov Oleg

Spaceflights:

Nº Launch Spacecraft Date and time
of launch		 Status while
launch		 Spacecraft
of landing		 Date and time
of landing		 Duration
1 Soyuz TMA-10 07 Apr 2007
17:31:14 UT		 Cdr/PE - Exp 15/ISS Soyuz TMA-10 21 Oct 2007
10:35:49 UT		 196d 17h 04m 35s
2 Soyuz TMA-17 20 Dec 2009
21:52 UT		 Cdr - ISS Exp.22 Soyuz TMA-17 02 Jun 2010
03:25 UT		 163d 05h 32m
3 Soyuz TMA-10M 25 Sept 2013
20:58 UT		 Cdr - ISS Exp.37/38 Soyuz TMA-10M 11 Mar 2014
03:24 UT		 166d 06h 25m
Total duration: 526d 05h 01m


EVA′s:

Date of
beginning		 Time (UT) of
beginning		 Duration Explanation
30 May 2007 19:05 UT 5h 25m Kotov and Yurchikhin; expedition ISS-15. The 21st EVA from airlock Pirs.
Installing orbital debris protection panels on the Zvezda Service Module and replacing experiments on the hull of Zvezda
06 Jun 2007 14:23 UT 5h 37m Kotov and Yurchikhin; expedition ISS-15. The 22nd EVA from airlock Pirs.
Installing a section of Ethernet cable on the Zarya module, installing additional Service Module Debris Protection (SMDP) panels on Zvezda, and deploying a Russian scientific experiment
14 Jan 2010 UT 5h 44m Kotov and M.Surayev; mission ISS
Preparing the Mini-Research Module 2, known as Poisk, for future Russian vehicle dockings.
09 Nov 2013 UT 5h 50m Kotov and S. Ryazansky; mission ISS
The cosmonauts carried the Olympic torch when they venture outside the International Space Station. After the photo opportunity, they prepared a pointing platform on the hull of the station's Zvezda service module for the installation of a high resolution camera system in December 2013, relocate of a foot restraint for use on future spacewalks and deactivate an experiment package.
27 Dec 2013 UT 8h 07m Kotov and S. Ryazansky; mission ISS
The cosmonauts attempted to install a pair of cameras on the Zvezda Service Module as part of a Canadian commercial endeavor designed to downlink Earth observation imagery and to refresh experiments.
27 Jan 2014 UT 6h 08m Kotov and S. Ryazansky; mission ISS
Reinstalling a pair of high-fidelity cameras as part of a commercial endeavor between a Canadian firm and the Russian Federal Space Agency. Oleg Kotov and Sergei Ryazansky previously attempted to install the cameras during a marathon 8-hour, 7-minute spacewalk on December 27, 2013 - the longest Russian spacewalk ever conducted - but had to return them to the airlock when Russian flight controllers did not receive the expected telemetry.
Total: 36h 51m EVAs: 6

Backup assignments:

No. Mission Job Date
1  Soyuz TM-28  Research Cosmonaut  
1  Soyuz TMA-08M  Cmd  28 Mar 2013

Personal patch:


Additional information

Ref: #16, #21, #219 - update: 15.12.14