Evgeny Igorevich Tarelkin (russian: Евгений Игоревич Тарелкин; born December 29, 1974) is a Russian
cosmonaut. He was selected as part of the TsPK-13 group in 2003.
Education
Tarelkin graduated from the
Yeysk Air Force School
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in 1996 and the
Gagarin Air Force Academy in 1998 before rising to the rank of
Captain
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in the
Russian Air Force
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Cosmonaut career
He served in the Air Force until his selection as a cosmonaut as part of the TsPK-13 selection group in 2003, completing basic training in 2005.
Tarelkin made his first flight into space in October 2012 as a member of the
Soyuz TMA-06M crew, during which he spent six months aboard the
International Space Station as part of the
Expedition 33
Expedition 33 was the 33rd long-duration expedition to the International Space Station (ISS). It began on 16 September 2012 with the departure from the ISS of the Soyuz TMA-04M spacecraft, which returned the Expedition 32 crew to Earth.
Crew
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34 crews and returned on March 16, 2013.
This was his only spaceflight.
In 2019 he is crew commander in the
SIRIUS-19 ground based experiment.
References
1974 births
Russian cosmonauts
Living people
Russian Air Force officers
Heroes of the Russian Federation
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