Oleg Germanovich Artemyev (russian: Олег Германович Артемьев; born December 28, 1970) is a

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for the

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. He was selected as part of the RKKE-15 Cosmonaut group in 2003. He was a flight engineer of

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and 40 to the

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, in 2018 he returned to space as the Commander of

Soyuz MS-08 Soyuz MS-08 was a Soyuz spaceflight that launched on 21 March 2018. It transported three members of the Expedition 55 crew to the International Space Station The International Space Station (ISS) is the largest modular space station curre ...

, and in 2022 he returned to space as the Commander of

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Personal life and education

Artemyev was born in

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, present-day

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, on December 28, 1970, and grew up in Leninsk (now

Baikonur Baikonur ( kk, Байқоңыр, ; russian: Байконур, translit=Baykonur), formerly known as Leninsk, is a city of republic significance in Kazakhstan on the northern bank of the Syr Darya river. It is currently leased and administered ...

), Kazakhstan. He graduated from the Tallinn Polytechnical School in 1990. In 1998, he graduated from

Bauman Moscow State Technical University The Bauman Moscow State Technical University, BMSTU (russian: link=no, Московский государственный технический университет им. Н. Э. Баумана (МГТУ им. Н. Э. Баумана)), some ...

with a degree in Low Temperature Technology and Physics. Artemyev graduated from the Russian Academy of State Service under the President of the Russian Federation in 2009, specializing in Personnel Management. He is married to Anna Sergeevna Malikhova.

Career

After his graduation, Artemyev served in the

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, until 1991. He has worked at RKKE since 1998. At RKKE he was involving in developing testing procedures for

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(EVA) equipment in neutral buoyancy at the hydrodynamics laboratory, Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center. Artemyev was a member of the pre-launch processing team of the

Zvezda Service Module ''Zvezda'' (russian: Звезда, meaning "star"), ''Salyut'' DOS-8, also known as the ''Zvezda'' Service Module, is a module of the International Space Station (ISS). It was the third module launched to the station, and provided all of t ...

working on the EVA and teleoperation control system. In 2000, he received medical clearance to begin special training related to space flight operation.

Cosmonaut career

Artemyev was selected as part of the RKKE-15 Cosmonaut group on May 29, 2003. In the following years, he entered Soyuz and ISS specific training. In 2006, together with American astronauts Michael Barrat and

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, Artemyev completed survival training as part of Soyuz training procedures. Again in June 2006, Artemyev,

Yuri Lonchakov Yury Valentinovich Lonchakov (russian: link=no, Юрий Валентинович Лончаков; born 4 March 1965) is a Russian former cosmonaut and a veteran of three space missions. He has spent 200 days in space and has conducted two space ...

and

Oleg Skripochka Oleg Ivanovich Skripochka (russian: Оле́г Ива́нович Скри́почка; born 24 December 1969 in Nevinnomyssk, Stavropol Krai, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union) is a Russian engineer and cosmonaut. In 2011 he was in space serving as a ...

completed emergency water training in

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followed by another session of survival training with

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and

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Charles Simony in January 2007. In 2008, he was part of a testing campaign of the Orlan-MK space suit. As part of the Soyuz Processing Team, Artemyev worked at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in 2010 and 2011. He was the descent module operator for the Soyuz TMA-01M mission. He also processed the Soyuz TMA-21 spacecraft that launched in 2011. Artemyev also has a personal

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on YouTube where he films the daily life on the

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MARS-500

Artemyev was a crew member in the 15-day and 105-day precursor studies of the

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program between 2007 and 2009.

Expedition 39/40

Artemyev was a member of the

Expedition 40 Expedition 40 was the 40th expedition to the International Space Station. A portion of the Expedition 39 crew transferred to Expedition 40 while the remainder of the crew launched on May 28, 2014 from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Upon ach ...

long-duration

crew. The mission launched on a

Soyuz rocket The Soyuz (russian: Союз, meaning "union", GRAU index 11A511) was a Soviet expendable carrier rocket designed in the 1960s by OKB-1 and manufactured by State Aviation Plant No. 1 in Kuybyshev, Soviet Union. It was commissioned to launch ...

from the

Baikonur Cosmodrome The Baikonur Cosmodrome ( kk, Байқоңыр ғарыш айлағы, translit=Baiqoñyr ğaryş ailağy, ; russian: Космодром Байконур, translit=Kosmodrom Baykonur, ) is a spaceport in an area of southern Kazakhstan leased to R ...

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, on March 25, 2014, and returned to Earth on September 11, 2014.

Expedition 55/56

Artemyev launched on March 21, 2018 as part of

Expedition 55 Expedition 55 was the 55th expedition to the International Space Station, which began upon the departure of Soyuz MS-06 on February 27, 2018. Anton Shkaplerov, Scott D. Tingle and Norishige Kanai were transferred from Expedition 54, with Anton Sh ...

/ 56. He was the Commander of

. He returned to Earth on October 5, 2018.

Expedition 66/67

Artemyev launched for the third time on March 18, 2022 on board

. He joined the

Expedition 66 Expedition 66 was the 66th long-duration expedition to the International Space Station. The mission began after the departure of Soyuz MS-18 on 17 October 2021. It was commanded by European Space Agency astronaut Thomas Pesquet, the fourth Euro ...

and is planned to become part of the

Expedition 67 Expedition 67 was the 67th long-duration expedition to the International Space Station. The expedition began upon the departure of Soyuz MS-19 on 30 March 2022, with NASA astronaut Thomas Marshburn taking over as ISS commander. Initially, the e ...

crew. Later in Expedition 67, he assumed the command of the International Space Station from

Thomas Marshburn Thomas Henry Marshburn (born August 29, 1960) is an American physician and a NASA astronaut. He is a veteran of three spaceflights to the International Space Station and holds the record for the oldest person to perform a spacewalk at 61 years o ...

on 5 May 2022. He spent 195 days in space before returning back to earth on 29 September 2022 at 10:57 UTC.

References

External links

Personal blog of Oleg Artemyev
(in Russian)
Personal blog of Oleg Artemyev
(English mirror)
Personal vlog of Oleg Artemyev
on

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Biography on Spacefacts.de
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Oleg Artemyev at Instagram
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