CLASSIFICATION:88/372.
NUMBER OF MISSIONS:2.
SPACE FLIGHT HOURS: 201 days 14 hours 47 min.
PLACE AND DATE OF BIRTH: August 24,1964, Uzgen, Oshsk Region, Kirghzian SSR (Kirghizian Republic).
NATIONALITY: Uzbek.
EDUCATION:
1981 – graduated from Uzgen secondary school;
1981 to 1982 - graduated from the Andizhan Vocational College as an accountant;
from November 3, 1982 – did his military service in the Soviet Armed Forces as a air technicians at military unit 62546, Kharkov;
August 1, 1983 to October 30, 1987 – a cadet of the Kharkov Higher Air Force School named after S.I. Gritsevets; Piloted the following types of jets: L-39, Mig-21, Total flying hours: 231 hours;
from December 8, 1987 – before joining the cosmonaut corps – a pilot-instructor of
October 30, 1987 – graduated from the Kharkov Gritsevts military aviation college for pilots, specialization – command tactical fighters aviation, with the pilot-engineer diploma;
February 1, 1992 to April 7, 1994 – correspondence course at the international center for the training systems of the State Oil and Gas Academy at the Aerospace ecology department, specialization – conjugate processing for aerospace materials. Upon graduating got qualification of engineer-ecologist and the master degree of ecological management.
OCCUPATION BEFORE JOINING COSMONAUT CORPS:
From December 8, 1987 – before joining the cosmonaut corps – a pilot-instructor of air training regiment 716 for the fifth central course of the Air Force personnel retraining of the Central Asian Military Command, Togmak. Piloted the following jets: L-29, L-39, Mig-21.
DATE OF ENROLLMENT IN COSMONAUT CORPS (GROUP NUMBER, DATE):
May 11, 1990 – by the State Interdepartmental Board decision selected for the cosmonauts corps of the Air Force Cosmonaut training center (group 11);
August 8, 1990 – by The Soviet Ministry of Defence order assigned for a position of cosmonaut-tester candidate of the fourth group of the cosmonaut corps in the Cosmonaut training center;
from April 24, 1992 – cosmonaut–researcher of the second group.
RATING: - a third-class military pilot (total flying hours more than 900 hours 52 parachute jumps); third-class cosmonaut (1999)
BACK-UP ACTIVITY:
March 1998 – February 1999 – a commander and flight-engineer, and from August 15, 1998 – a commander of the Primary Expedition-27 backup crew along with Andre-Deshays-Claudie (France) and M. Fulier (Slovakia);
February 20, 1999 – a backup for V. Afanasyev, the commander of the Soyuz TM-29;
February 24, 1998 – a commander and flight-engineer of the Primary Expedition-27 back-up crew;
March 1999 to March 2000 – a commander for the Primary Expedition-28 backup crew to the Mir space station together with P. Vinogradov;
April 4, 2000- a backup for S. Zalyotin, the commander of the Soyuz TM-30 mission.
SPACE FLIGHTS PERFORMED:
The first flight From 23 to January 31, 1998 – amission specialist of the STS-89 Endeavor mission. The docking and joint flight with the Mir space station from 24 to January 29. Flew along with T. Wilcutt, J. Reilly, M. Anderson, B. Dunbar, A. Thomas and also with A. Soloveyev, P. Vinogradov and D. Wolf. Flight duration:8 days 19 hours 46 min. 54 sec.
The second flight - October 14, 2004 – April 25, 2005- a flight engineer of the ISS and the Soyuz TTMA-5 commander together with Leroy Chiao. Performed two EVAs of total duration 9 hours 59 minutes. Flight duration:192 days 19 hours 01 min.
AWARDS:
Two Russian Armed Forces Medals,
Medal “Gold Star” of Kirghizian Republic Hero (Ak Shumkar Award, 1998),
NASA Medal “Space Mission”(1998).
CURRENT STATUS: 2000 – colonel, 1999 – group commander, cosmonaut-tester.