Mikhail Tyurin

Mikhail Vladislavovich Tyurin (Михаил Владиславович Тюрин; born March 2, 1960) is a former Russian cosmonaut who flew several missions to the International Space Station and completed four spacewalks during his career.

He was awarded the title Hero of the Russian Federation for his work as a cosmonaut.

Michael Tyurin lives in Korolev, a small city outside Moscow.

He was born March 2, 1960, in Kolomna, Russia (then part of the Soviet Union) (about 60 miles from Moscow) where his parents still reside.

He is married to Tatiana Anatoleyvna Tyurina.

They have a daughter, Alexandra, born in 1982.

He enjoys sailing in his free time.

He graduated from the Moscow Aviation Institute in 1984 with a degree in engineering and a specialization in creating mathematical models related to mechanical flight.

He is currently doing graduate work in his field of research.

After graduating from the Aviation Institute he began working at the Energia corporation as an engineer.

The main subjects of his job have been dynamics, ballistics, and software development.

His personal scientific research is connected with the psychological aspects of cosmonauts' training for the manual control of spacecraft motion.

Tyurin was awarded the Hero of the Russian Federation medal.

In 1994 he was selected to begin cosmonaut training, and in 1998 he started training as a flight engineer for the Expedition 3 crew.

He also served as a backup crew member for the first ISS mission.

Tyurin lived and worked aboard the International Space Station as part of the Expedition 3 crew.

carrying Tyurin and six other crewmembers on STS-105 mission blasted off to space from the Kennedy Space Center (KSC) on August 10, 2001.

The shuttle docked with the ISS on 12 August at 18:41 UTC.

Tyurin spent approximately 4 months aboard the station as flight engineer 1.

During the long-duration mission, the Expedition 3 crew enjoyed a unique view of the 2001 Leonid meteor storm.

At the end of the stay Expedition 3 crewmembers, NASA astronaut Frank Culbertson, Tyurin, and cosmonaut Vladimir Dezhurov returned to Earth on board Space Shuttle.

Endeavour STS-108 mission delivered the Expedition 4 crew to the ISS and landed at KSC on December 17, 2001.

On October 8, 2001, Tyurin and Dezhurov ventured outside ISS to mark the 100th spacewalk to be carried out by Russian cosmonauts.

The main objective of the spacewalk was to outfit the Pirs Docking Compartment and make connections between that newly arrived compartment and the Zvezda module.

Tyurin with NASA astronaut Michael Lopez-Alegria and spaceflight participant Anousheh Ansari lifted off on board the Soyuz TMA-9 spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome on 18 September 2006 at 04:08 UTC, to the ISS.

The spacecraft docked with the ISS on September 20 at 05:21 UTC following two days of autonomous flight.

Tyurin served as the Soyuz commander, and after docking with the ISS they exchanged with the resident crew on board ISS and became the fourteenth station crew, Expedition 14.

Tyurin spent 215 days aboard the International Space Station as a flight engineer.

The Soyuz TMA-9 capsule carrying Tyurin, Lopez-Alegria and spaceflight participant Charles Simonyi landed southwest of Karaganda, Kazakhstan on 21 April 2007 12:30 UTC.

This was the first time since October 2009 that nine people have served together aboard the station without a space shuttle being docked to the orbital station.

During his stay at the space station, Tyurin was involved in studying the cardiovascular and neurological systems as a part of understanding how human body adapts to zero gravity.

As of June 2010, Tyurin has performed four career spacewalks.

Tyurin's EVA time through four spacewalks is 17 hours and 14 minutes.

Tyurin conducted his first three career spacewalks during the Expedition 3 mission to the ISS.

Tyurin was commander of flight Soyuz TMA-11M, which docked with the ISS on November 7, 2013.

The Soyuz FG rocket carrying Tyurin, American astronaut Rick Mastracchio and Japanese astronaut Koichi Wakata lifted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome at 04:14 GMT and docked with the ISS six hours later.

The Soyuz TMA-11M crew carried a torch for the 2014 Sochi Olympics.

Once at the ISS, Tyurin, Mastracchio and Wakata met Fyodor Yurchikhin, Karen Nyberg, Luca Parmitano, Oleg Kotov, Sergey Ryazansky, Michael Hopkins.

Tyurin returned to Earth on May 14, 2014, after 188 days in space.

The Soyuz crew carrying Tyurin touched down southeast of Dzhezkazgan in Kazakhstan at 01:57 UTC.