Sergei Avdeyev

Infobox Astronaut
name =Sergei Vasilyevich Avdeyev


width =109px
type =Cosmonaut
nationality =Russian
date_birth =1 January 1956
place_birth =Chapayevsk, Russia
occupation =Engineer
selection =1987
time =747d 14h 14m
mission =Soyuz TM-15, Soyuz TM-22, Soyuz TM-28
insignia =|

Sergei Vasilyevich Avdeyev (Сергей Васильевич Авдеев, born 1 January 1956) is a Russian cosmonaut.

Avdeyev was born in Chapayevsk, Samara Oblast (formerly Kuybyshev Oblast), Russian SFSR. He graduated from [http://intraserv.mephi.ru/eng/second.html Moscow Physics-Engineering Institute] in 1979 as an engineer-physicist. From 1979 to 1987 he worked as an engineer for NPO Energiya. He was selected as a cosmonaut as part of the Energia Engineer Group 9 on 26 March 1987. His basic cosmonaut training was from December 1987 through to July 1989. He retired as a cosmonaut on 14 February 2003.

Avdeyev at one point held the record for cumulative time spent in space with 747.59 days in earth orbit, accumulated through three tours of duty aboard the Mir Space Station. He has orbited the earth an incredible 11,968 times traveling about 515,000,000 kilometers. In August 2005, this record was taken by another cosmonaut, Sergei K. Krikalev.

Avdeyev is married with two children. He is an amateur radio operator, and his call sign is RV3DW.

Time traveler

According to several reputable sources [http://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/einstein/time/exploring.php] [http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/A97/94/63I40/index.xml] [http://www.popsci.com/popsci/science/578e359b9fa84010vgnvcm1000004eecbccdrcrd/3.html] , Sergei holds the current known record for time travel by a human being. In his over 748 days aboard Mir (cumulative across three missions) he went approximately 17,000 mph and traveled roughly 0.02 seconds (20 milliseconds) into the futurecite journal | first = J. Richard | last = Gott | title = Time Travel in Einstein's Universe | year = 2002 p. 75 ] , which is considerably more than any other human being. A common misconception is that the Apollo astronauts hold the record -- they "did" go faster than Avdeyev, but they were only in space for a few days.

paceflights

*Soyuz TM-15 — 27 July 1992 to 1 February 1993 – 188 days, 21 hours, 41 minutes, 15 seconds
*Soyuz TM-22 — 3 September 1995 to 29 February 1996 – 179 days, 1 hour, 41 minutes, 45 seconds
*Soyuz TM-28 & Soyuz TM-29 — August 13, 1998 to 28 August 1999 – 379 days, 14 hours, 51 minutes, 9 seconds

pacewalks (42 hours, 2 minutes)

* 1. MIR EO-12 — 3 September 1992 – 3 hours, 56 minutes
* 2. MIR EO-12 — 7 September 1992 – 5 hours, 8 minutes
* 3. MIR EO-12 — 11 September 1992 – 5 hours, 44 minutes
* 4. MIR EO-12 — 15 September 1992 – 3 hours, 33 minutes
* 5. MIR E0-20 — 20 October 1995 – 5 hours, 11 minutes
* 6. MIR EO-20 — 8 December 1995 – 0 hours, 37 minutes
* 7. MIR EO-26 — 15 September 1998 – 0 hours, 30 minutes
* 8. MIR EO-26 — 17 November 1998 – 5 hours, 54 minutes
* 9. MIR EO-27 — 23 July 1999 – 6 hours, 7 minutes
*10. MIR EO-27 — 28 July 1999 – 5 hours, 22 minutes

References

ee also

*Spaceflight records