Dmitriy Aleksandrovich Petelin (Russian

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: Дмитрий Александрович Петелин; born July 10, 1983, in

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, Kazakh SSR, now

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) is a Russian cosmonaut who was part of the 2012 selection group.

Biography

Petelin graduated from the

South Ural State University South Ural State University (SUSU) (russian: Южно-Уральский Государственный Университет (ЮУрГУ)) in Chelyabinsk is an educational institution in Russia. It is among the top-ten of the Russian universiti ...

in 2006 with a degree in aircraft and helicopter engineering. Following graduation, he worked as an engineer for NIK, LLC. On October 26, 2012, he became a cosmonaut and reported to the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center. He completed cosmonaut training and was named a test cosmonaut on July 15, 2014. He is married and has one daughter.

External links

Astronaut.ru biography

Roscosmos biography

Living people 1983 births Russian cosmonauts {{astronaut-stub