Oleg Valeriyevich Kotov (Russian: Олег Валериевич Котов) was born October 27, 1965, in Simferopol, Autonomous Republic of Crimea in Ukrainian SSR.
He is a member of the ISS Expedition 15, that launched on April 7, 2007 from Baikonur Cosmodrome, aboard Soyuz TMA-10 spacecraft, together with Fyodor Yurchikhin and space tourist Charles Simonyi
At 19:05 GMT on 30 May 2007, accompanied by Yurchikhin, Kotov began his first spacewalk, lasting 5 hours an...
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Oleg Valeriyevich Kotov (Russian: Олег Валериевич Котов) was born October 27, 1965, in Simferopol, Autonomous Republic of Crimea in Ukrainian SSR.
He is a member of the ISS Expedition 15, that launched on April 7, 2007 from Baikonur Cosmodrome, aboard Soyuz TMA-10 spacecraft, together with Fyodor Yurchikhin and space tourist Charles Simonyi
At 19:05 GMT on 30 May 2007, accompanied by Yurchikhin, Kotov began his first spacewalk, lasting 5 hours and 25 minutes, during which they installed protective panels to shield ISS from space debris.
He is currently assigned to Expedition 22 as a Flight Engineer and Expedition 23 as the Commander aboard the International Space Station, arriving by Soyuz TMA-17.
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