Sergey Aleksandrovich Zhukov (russian: Сергей Александрович Жуков; born 9 September 1956 in
Dzhezkazgan
Jezkazgan, or Zhezkazgan ( kk, Жезқазған, translit=Jezqazğan ), formerly known as Dzhezkazgan (russian: Джезказган) until 1992, is a city and the administrative centre of Ulytau Region, Kazakhstan, on a reservoir of the Kara ...
,
Kazakh SSR, USSR, now Jezkazgan,
Kazakhstan) is a retired Russian
cosmonaut first selected in
2003
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. He retired from the cosmonaut corps before completing any spaceflights.
Biography
Zhukov graduated from the
Bauman Moscow State Technical University in 1979 with a degree in
mechanical engineering, specializing in
nuclear power. In 1986, Zhukov obtained his Ph.D. from Bauman University after completing his dissertation on nuclear reactors. He has served on the
board of trustees
A board of directors (commonly referred simply as the board) is an executive committee that jointly supervises the activities of an organization, which can be either a for-profit or a nonprofit organization such as a business, nonprofit organiz ...
at Bauman and has over 100 scholarly publications.
In 1993, Zhukov worked with ''
Aviation Week & Space Technology
''Aviation Week & Space Technology'', often abbreviated ''Aviation Week'' or ''AW&ST'', is the flagship magazine of the Aviation Week Network. The weekly magazine is available in print and online, reporting on the aerospace, defense and aviati ...
'' in the United States and subsequently pursued and obtained a degree in appraising intellectual property from the International Academy of Appraisal and Consulting in 2001.
After receiving his doctorate, Zhukov worked as a junior engineer at the Bauman Institute and also worked in journalism. He has held multiple positions working in the area of cosmonautics since 1991, and has served as a professor at the Bauman Institute since 1986. He has been a guest lecturer at multiple institutions, including the
University of Alabama in
Huntsville. He was also the head of the Moscow Space Club in 2006.
Zhukov was expected to join the
cosmonaut selection of 1989; however, he was disqualified due to traces of
Hepatitis B in his bloodstream. He was selected in the
TsPK-13 cosmonaut selection group on 29 May 2003, and was named a test cosmonaut on 5 July 2005. Zhukov had not been selected to fly to the
International Space Station at the time he announced his retirement from the cosmonaut corps on 29 April 2011.
On 4 May 2011, concurrent with his retirement from the cosmonaut corps, Zhukov began working as the executive director of the Skolkovo Foundation, which is dedicated to telecommunications and navigation systems of spacecraft.
External links
Astronaut.ru biography
1956 births
People from Karaganda Region
Living people
Russian cosmonauts
ru:Жуков, Сергей Александрович
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