Anton Shkaplerov

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Anton Shkaplerov
2003 Intercosmos Group
Total EVAs
3
Total EVA time
21 hours 39 minutes
MissionsSoyuz TMA-22 (Expedition 29/30), Soyuz TMA-15M (Expedition 42/43), Soyuz MS-07 (Expedition 54/55), Soyuz MS-19 (Expedition 65/66)
Mission insignia

Anton Nikolaevich Shkaplerov (

cosmonaut. He is a veteran of four spaceflights.[1]

Early life

Shkaplerov was born 20 February 1972, in Sevastopol, Crimea.[2] He is married to Tatyana Petrovna, and they have two daughters. His parents are Nikolay Ivanovich Shkaplerov and Tamara Viktorovna Shkaplerova. In 1989, Shkaplerov learned to fly in a Yakovlev Yak-52, and after graduating from Sevastopol High School the same year, he entered the Kachinsk Air Force Pilot School. He graduated in 1994 as a pilot-engineer, and then graduated from N. E. Zukovskiy Air Force Engineering School in 1997. His hobbies include sports, travel, fishing, and golf.[2]

Cosmonaut career

Shkaplerov participates in a session of EVA in February 2012.

After graduating in 1997, Shkaplerov served as a senior pilot-instructor in the

Houston, Texas, and was assigned as the back-up commander for Expedition 22.[2]

Expedition 29/30

Shkaplerov served as a Flight Engineer for

Dan Burbank on 16 November 2011. After 2 days in orbit, they docked with the International Space Station (ISS) to begin Expedition 29/30. On 12 February 2012, Shkaplerov and fellow cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko conducted a six-hour spacewalk outside the ISS. They installed shields on the Zvezda Service Module to protect it from micrometeoroid orbital debris and move the Strela 1 crane from the Pirs docking compartment to the Poisk Mini Research Module (MRM-2). The duration was 6 hours 15 minutes.[3]
They spent 165 days in space before undocking and returning to Earth on 27 April 2012.

Expedition 42/43

Scott Kelly
in the Destiny laboratory

On 23 November 2014, Shkaplerov commanded

Aleksandr Samokutyayev and Yelena Serova.[5]
The crew spent 199 days in space before returning to Earth on 11 June 2015. Shkaplerov's total time in space was brought to 365 days.

Expedition 54/55

Shkaplerov was launched on into space on board

Scott Tingle and Norishige Kanai of JAXA.[6] He was the flight engineer of Expedition 54 and commander of Expedition 55
.

On 2 February 2018, Shkaplerov and Expedition 54 commander Alexander Misurkin participated in an 8-hour 13 minutes spacewalk outside of the ISS to replace an old electronics box for a high-gain communications antenna. At completion, the two cosmonauts set a new record for the longest Russian spacewalk to date.[7]

Expedition 65/66

Russian stamp dedicated to the film The Challenge

Shkaplerov flew to the ISS on board

Oleg Novitskiy returned to Earth on Soyuz MS-18 with Shipenko and Peresild, Shkaperlov became ISS commander as part of Expedition 66.[11]

On 19 January 2022, he participated in an 7-hour 11 minutes spacewalk to configure the Prichal module to support visiting Soyuz and Progress vehicles.[12]

Shkaplerov landed on 30 March 2022 with Russian cosmonaut Pyotr Dubrov and American astronaut Mark Vande Hei.[13]

Statistics

# Spacecraft launch Launch date Mission Spacecraft landing Landing date Duration Spacewalk times Spacewalk duration
1 Soyuz TMA-22 14 November 2011, 04:14 UTC ISS-29 / ISS-30 Soyuz TMA-22 27 April 2012, 11:45 UTC 165 days 7 hours 31 minutes 1 6 hours 15 minutes
2 Soyuz TMA-15M 23 November 2014, 21:01 UTC ISS-42 / ISS-43 Soyuz TMA-15M 11 June 2015, 13:44 UTC 199 days 16 hours 43 minutes 0 0
3 Soyuz MS-07 17 December 2017, 07:21 UTC ISS-54 / ISS-55 Soyuz MS-07 3 June 2018, 12:39 UTC 168 days 5 hours 18 minutes 1 8 hours 13 minutes
4 Soyuz MS-19 5 October 2021, 08:55 UTC ISS-65 / ISS-66 Soyuz MS-19 30 March 2022, 11:28:26 UTC 176 days 2 hours 33 minutes 1 7 hours 11 minutes
Source:[14] 709 days 8 hours 4 minutes 3 21 hours 39 minutes

See also

References

Public Domain This article incorporates public domain material from websites or documents of the

National Aeronautics and Space Administration
.

  1. ^ "Soyuz MS-19 to send a "movie crew" to ISS". russianspaceweb.com. 22 October 2021. Retrieved 16 November 2021.
  2. ^ a b c NASA (July 2011). "Cosmonaut Bio: Anton Shkaplerov". Archived from the original on 6 December 2013. Retrieved 4 April 2023.
  3. ^ "Soyuz TMA-03M". Russianspaceweb.com. 23 December 2011. Retrieved 25 December 2011.
  4. ^ "Astronauts get their own LEGO minifigures on space station". collectSPACE.com. 8 January 2015. Retrieved 26 May 2023.
  5. ^ Associated Press. "Crew docks at International Space Station". USA Today. Retrieved 24 November 2014.
  6. ^ Chris Gebhardt (17 December 2017). "Soyuz MS-07 launches on final human mission of 2017". nasaspaceflight.com.
  7. ^ "Cosmonauts Break Russian Spacewalk Record During Space Station Antenna Repair". SPACE.com. 2 February 2018. Retrieved 3 February 2018.
  8. ТАСС
    . 29 April 2021. Retrieved 30 April 2021.
  9. ^ "Экспедиция МКС-65/66. План полёта". Русский космос (in Russian). April 2021. p. 17.
  10. ^ "Soyuz MS-19 | Soyuz 2.1a". Everyday Astronaut. 1 October 2021. Retrieved 1 October 2021.
  11. ^ "ISS Expedition 66 Change of Command Ceremony". 6 November 2021. Retrieved 5 December 2021.
  12. ^ "Cosmonauts complete Russian spacewalk to integrate Prichal node". www.nasaspaceflight.com. 19 January 2022. Retrieved 19 January 2022.
  13. ^ Navin, Joseph (29 March 2022). "Soyuz MS-19 lands in Kazakhstan amid tense U.S.-Russian relations". NASASpaceFlight.com. Retrieved 8 May 2022.
  14. ^ "Statistics - Anton Shkaplerov". spacefacts.de. Retrieved 22 December 2017.

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