Fyodor Yurchikhin

• Status: Active
• In Space: No
• Date of Birth: 01/03/1959
• First Flight: 10/07/2002
• Last Flight: 04/20/2017

Launches

• Soyuz-FG | Soyuz MS-04
• Soyuz-FG | Soyuz TMA-10
• Space Shuttle Atlantis / OV-104 | STS-112
• Soyuz FG | Soyuz TMA-19
• Soyuz FG | Soyuz TMA-09M

Fyodor Yurchikhin, a Russian astronaut affiliated with the government agency Russian Federal Space Agency (ROSCOSMOS), embarked on 5 space flights and engaging in 9 spacewalks during his/her career as an astronaut.

Fyodor Nikolayevich Yurchikhin (Russian: Фёдор Николаевич Юрчихин, Greek: Θεόδωρος Γιουρτσίχιν του Νικόλαου; born 3 January 1959), is a Russian cosmonaut of Greek descent, engineer and RSC Energia test-pilot who has flown on five spaceflights. His first spaceflight was a 10-day Space Shuttle mission STS-112. His second was a long-duration stay aboard the International Space Station (ISS) as a Flight Engineer for Expedition 15; for this mission he was launched in the Soyuz TMA-10 spacecraft. He has undertaken two further long-duration stays aboard the ISS, as a crew member of Expedition 24 / 25. For this mission he was launched with the spacecraft Soyuz TMA-19, and he landed in November 2010, also with the TMA-19 spacecraft. He served as Soyuz Commander for his fourth mission aboard Soyuz TMA-09M, as Flight Engineer for Expedition 36 and ISS Commander for Expedition 37. In April 2017, Yurchikhin launched on Soyuz MS-04 for the fifth spaceflight of his career, a six-month mission to the ISS as part of Expedition 51 and 52, for which he was the Commander.