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Sergei Konstantinovich Krikalev (Russian: Сергей Константинович Крикалёв, also transliterated as Sergei Krikalyov; born 27 August 1958) is a Russian mechanical engineer, former cosmonaut and former head of the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center.
Sergei Krikalev was in space when the Soviet Union collapsed. Unable to come home, he wound up spending two times longer than originally planned in orbit. They simply refused to bring...
Dec 26, 2021 · Krikalev went to work on the Mir space station on May 18, 1991 and didn’t come home until March 1992. He went to work as a Soviet, and returned as a Russian — because, on December...
Jun 12, 2020 · Dubbed “the last Soviet citizen” and “the man who is sick of flying,” cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev blasted off into space on May 18, 1991 and unwittingly became a pawn in international politics. For 312 days he watched as the communist superpower, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, became the Russian Federation.
Jul 24, 2022 · Sergei Krikalev, who logged over 800 days on station, shares his unique perspective on the power of collaboration in space and looking down on Earth.
Krikalev flew on STS-88 (4-15 December 1998), the first International Space Station assembly mission. During the 12-day mission the Unity module was mated with Zarya module. Krikalev was a member of the Expedition 1 crew.
Sergey Konstantinovich Krikalyov is a Russian cosmonaut whose six spaceflights from 1988 to 2005 earned him the world record for most time in space. After earning a degree in mechanical engineering from the Leningrad Technical Institute, Krikalyov joined NPO Energia (now RKK Energia), the largest.
Jan 19, 2024 · Russian President Vladimir Putin appointed cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev to be his special envoy for international space cooperation as Russia seeks to reform a space industry suffering from US-led...
Feb 20, 2023 · All of which explains how Bass comes to be hosting The Last Soviet, a new podcast telling the story of Sergei Krikalev, a flight engineer from Leningrad who, in 1991, was stationed alone on...
Sergei Krikalev was the first cosmonaut to fly on an American Space Shuttle as part of the cooperative agreement between Russia and the United States. The Space Shuttle Discovery launched February 3, 1994, with Krikalev and the crew of STS-60 .
