Yurchikhin

Fyodor Nikolayevich

USSR/CIS

International order nº: 426

Russian cosm. nº: 96

Personal data:

Birthdate:  03 Jan 1959
Birthplace:  Batumi / Georgian SSR
Marital status:  married
Children:  two
Selection date:  28 July 1997
Selection group: RKKE - 14
Job:  Flight engineer
Status:  active
Yurchikhin Fyodor

Handsigned spacesuit portrait


Spaceflights:

Ord.
num.		 Startup
spacecraft		 Date and time of
launch (UT)		 Status while
launch		 Spacecraft
of landing		 Date and time of
landing (UT)		 Duration
1 STS-112
(Atlantis/26)		 07 Oct 2002
19:45:51		 MSP STS-112
(Atlantis/26)		 18 Oct 2002
15:44:35		 10d.19h.58m.44s.
2 Soyuz-TMA10 07 Apr 2007
17:31:14		 FE
Cdr/FE ISS-15		 Soyuz-TMA10 21 Oct 2007
10:35:49		 196d 17h 04m 35s
3 Soyuz-TMA19 15 Jun 2010
21:35		 CDR
CDR ISS-24/25		 Soyuz-TMA19 26 Nov 2010
04:46		 163d 07h 11m
4 Soyuz TMA-09M 28 May 2013
20:31		 Cdr
ISS-36/37		 Soyuz TMA-09M 11 Nov 2013
02:49		 166d 06h 19m
5 Soyuz MS-04 20 Apr 2017
07:13:43		 FE3
ISS-51/52		 Soyuz MS-04 03 Sep 2017
01:21:43		 135d 18h 08m
Total duration: 672d 20h 41m

EVA's:

Date of
beginning		 Time of
beginning		 Duration Crew & Remarks
30 May 2007 19:05 UT 5h 25m Yurchikhin and Kotov; 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 Yurchikhin and Kotov; 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
23 Jul 2007 10:24 UT 7h 41m Yurchikhin and C.Anderson; expedition ISS-15. The 37th EVA from airlock Quest.
Replacing a failed power controller on the station's truss, jettison a refrigerator-sized ammonia reservoir tank and clean seals on a docking port on the Unity module
27 Jul 2010 UT 6h 42m Yurchikhin and M. Korniyenko; mission ISS
Preparing the recently delivered Russian Rassvet Module for future automated dockings by Russian spacecraft
15 Nov 2010 UT 6h 27m Yurchikhin and O. Skripochka; mission ISS
Installing a multipurpose workstation on the starboard side of the Zvezda service module’s large-diameter section, cleaning thermal insulation around the vents for the Elektron oxygen generation system and relocating a television camera from one end of the Rassvet docking compartment to the other (failed due to interference with insulation where it was to be installed).
24 Jun 2013 UT 6h 34m Yurchikhin and A. Misurkin; mission ISS
They replaced a fluid flow regulator on the Russian segment’s Zarya module. They also removed the Photon-Gamma unit of the Molina-Gamma experiment, which measures gamma splashes and optical radiation during terrestrial lightning and thunder conditions, from a portable workstation on Zvezda
16 Aug 2013 UT 7h 29m Yurchikhin and A. Misurkin; mission ISS
They continued routing power and Ethernet cables for the future arrival of the Russian Multipurpose Laboratory Module, which will be launched aboard a Proton rocket from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. They also installed on the Poisk module a panel of experiments designed to collect data on the effects of the microgravity environment in low-Earth orbit.
22 Aug 2013 UT 5h 58m Yurchikhin and A. Misurkin; mission ISS
The cosmonauts removed a space laser communications system from the hull of the Zvezda service module and planned to install a pointing platform on which a small optical telescope will be installed on a future Russian spacewalk. This task failed.
Total: 51h 53m EVAs: 8

Backup assignments:

No. Mission Description Date
1  Soyuz TMA-8  Cmd  
2  Soyuz TMA-07M  Cmd  19 Dec 2012
3  Soyuz MS-03  Cmd  17 Nov 2016

Personal patch:

Yurchikhin personal patch Yurchikhin personal EVA patch

Additional information

Ref.: #7(JR737), #16, #21, #302, #404 - update: 19.04.19 Home