Roskosmos State Corporation Guide, Cosmonaut Training Center, Cosmic Colleagues Congratulate Sergey Alexandrovich Volkova Happy Birthday!
The first flight from April 8 to October 24, 2008, Sergey Volkov safely committed as the commander of the transport piloted ship “Union TMA-12” and the commander of the ISS-17 expedition, together with the cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko and the participant of the Space Flight of Lee Co.. During the flight, the main hermetic section of the RM of the RM Scientific Research Module “KIBO” and the JEMRMS manipulator was carried out, work with ATV-001 (first ESA freight ship), scientific and research experiments were performed.
In the course of flight, Russian cosmonaut twice went into open space and fulfilled the planned work. For courage and heroism, shown during the space flight, by the Decree of the President of the Russian Federation of February 5, 2009, S.A. Volkov was awarded the title Hero of Russia.
The second flight as the commander of the ship “Union TMA-02M” and the ISS-28/29 flight engineer (June 27 – November 22, 2011) Sergey Volkov made with Michael Fossum Astronauts and Satosha Furukva, during which he completed an outdoor space. For the exemplary implementation of two manned space flights of a special complexity under the program of the International Space Station, as well as the implementation of the Flight Program, Sergey Alexandrovich, a qualification of the cosmonaut of the 1st grade is assigned.
To the third space business trip, Sergey Volkov went on September 2, 2015 as the commander of the ship “Union TMA-18M” and the ISS-45/46 flight engineer. In the course of the flight, he performed work with transport cargo and transport piloted ships. During the period of activity on board the ISS, there were many scientific and applied research and experiments, repair and restoration work of on-board systems, performed onboard photos, video, and also prepared the Soyuz TMA-18M ship to return from the orbit. During the flight, the cosmonaut performed one output to open space for 4 hours 43 minutes. In total, for three flights, Sergey Alexandrovich stayed in open space 23 hours 20 minutes.
March 2, 2016 The crew of the Soyuz TMA-18M ship in Sergey Volkov, Mikhail Kornienko and Scott Kelly returned to Earth safely. The duration of Flight S.A. Volkova amounted to 181 days 23 hours 47 minutes.