Oleg Valeryievich Kotov – an experienced cosmonaut, who has three cosmic flights behind the shoulders. His first start took place on April 7, 2007. Together with him, Fedor Yurchikhin and Charles Simonon went to the ISS.
During the first flight O.V. Cats completed two exits in open space with a total duration of more than 10 hours. The crew returned to Earth on October 21, 2007. The duration of the first flight Oleg Valeiyevich was 196 days 17 hours.
In the second flight, Oleg Kotov went on December 21, 2009 together with Timothy Kimer and Socychi Roots as the commander of the ship “Union TMA-17”. During the expedition to the ISS, I spent more than 5 hours in open space, performing work on the integration of the search for the research module “Search” into the configuration of the Russian ISS segment. Return from the second flight ended with a soft supporting landing on June 2, 2010. The duration of the flight was 163 days 5 hours.
The third flight of the cosmonaut passed from September 26, 2013 to March 11, 2014. O.V. The cats carried out the duties of the commander of the TC Soyuz TMA-10M and the ISS-38, the ISS-37 flight engineer. During the flight, three outlets into open space with a total duration of 19 hours 48 minutes, including a record at that time, the exit for domestic cosmonautics is 8 hours of 07 minutes. Interestingly, during one of the years Oleg Kotov and Sergey Ryazansky took part in the Olympic Fire relay and for the first time in the history of the Olympic Movement, the torch of the Winter Olympic Games in Sochi was carried out. The duration of the flight was 166 days 6 hours.
Colleagues-Cosmonauts and employees of Roskosmos State Corporation, the Center for Cosmonauts Training Congratulate Oleg Kotov with an anniversary and wish good health, happiness, well-being and success in professional activities!