/guid/9202a8c04000641f8000000000dcdbb7 rename

Oleg Valeriyevich Kotov (Russian: Олег Валериевич Котов) was born October 27, 1965, in Simferopol,...

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.