Nikolai Budarin
- Status: Retired
- In Space: No
- Date of Birth: 04/29/1963
- First Flight: 06/27/1995
- Last Flight: 11/23/2002
Launches
- Space Shuttle Endeavour / OV-105 | STS-113
- Space Shuttle Atlantis / OV-104 | STS-71
- Soyuz U | Soyuz TM-27
Nikolai Budarin, a Russian astronaut affiliated with the government agency Russian Federal Space Agency (ROSCOSMOS), embarked on 3 space flights and engaging in 8 spacewalks during his/her career as an astronaut.
Nikolai Mikhailovich Budarin (Russian: Николай Михайлович Бударин) (born April 29, 1953 in Kirya, Chuvashia) is a retired Russian cosmonaut, a veteran of three extended space missions aboard the Mir Space Station and the International Space Station. He has also performed eight career spacewalks with a total time of 44 hours.
Named a cosmonaut candidate in 1989, Budarin’s first space mission was a long-term assignment aboard the space station Mir in 1995. Since then, he again made extended stays on Mir in 1998 and the International Space Station Expedition 6 from 2002 to 2003.
