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Russian Federal Space Agency
The Russian Federal Space Agency (Russian: Федеральное космическое агентство России Federal'noye kosmicheskoye agentstvo Rossii), commonly entitled Roscosmos (Роскосмос Roskosmos) and abbreviated as FKA (ФКА) and RKA (РКА), is the government agency responsible for the Russian space science...
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Laika
Laika (Russian: Лайка, literally meaning "Barker") was a Soviet space dog (c. 1954 – November 3, 1957) who became the first animal to orbit the Earth and the first orbital death. Little was known about the impact of spaceflight on living things at...
Yelena Kondakova
Yelena Vladimirovna Kondakova (Russian: Елена Владимировна Кондакова; born March 30, 1957) was the third Soviet/Russian female cosmonaut to travel to space and the first woman to make a long-duration spaceflight. Her first trip into space was on...
Date of birth:
- Mar 30, 1957 (age 52 years)
Sergei Krikalev
Sergei Konstantinovich Krikalyov (Russian: Сергей Константинович Крикалёв, born August 27, 1958) is a Russian cosmonaut and mechanical engineer. As a prominent rocket scientist, he has been veteran of six space flights and currently has spent more...
Date of birth:
- Aug 27, 1958 (age 51 years)
Boris Morukov
Boris Vladimirovich Morukov (Russian: Борис Владимирович Моруков; b. October 1, 1950, in Moscow, Russia) is a Russian physician at the State Research Center RF-Institute for Biomedical Problems (IBMP). He trained with the Russian Federal Space...
Date of birth:
- Oct 1, 1950 (age 59 years)
Konstantin Kozeyev
Konstantin Mirovich Kozeyev (Russian: Константин Мирович Козеев) is a Russian cosmonaut.
He was born in Korolyov, Moscow Oblast, Russian SFSR on December 1, 1967. He is divorced and has no children.
He is a graduate student from Moscow Aviation...
Date of birth:
- Dec 1, 1967 (age 42 years)
Valeriy Polyakov
Valeri Vladimirovich Polyakov (Russian: Валерий Владимирович Поляков) (born April 27, 1942) is a Russian cosmonaut. He holds the record for the longest spaceflight in human history, staying aboard the Mir space station for more than 14 months (437...
Date of birth:
- Apr 27, 1942 (age 67 years)
Yuri Shargin
Yuri Georgiyevich Shargin (Russian: Юрий Георгиевич Шаргин) is a cosmonaut in the Russian Space Forces.
He was born March 20, 1960 in Engels, Saratov Oblast, Russian SFSR. He is divorced and has two children.
Shargin graduated from the Military...
Date of birth:
- Mar 20, 1960 (age 49 years)
Oleg Kotov
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,...
Date of birth:
- Oct 27, 1965 (age 44 years)
Nikolai Tikhonov
Nikolay Vladimirovich Tikhonov (Russian: Николай В. Тихонов) was born May 23, 1982. He is a Russian cosmonaut, selected in 2006.
Date of birth:
- 1982 (age 28 years)
Oleg Kononenko
Oleg Dmitriyevich Kononenko (Russian: Олег Дмитриевич Кононенко) is a Russian cosmonaut.
Kononenko was born June 21, 1964, in Chardzhou, Turkmen SSR, and graduated from the N. E. Zhukovskiy Kharkov Aviation Institute in 1988 as a mechanical engineer...
Date of birth:
- Jul 21, 1964 (age 45 years)
