Avdeyev

This page no longer updated from 31 October 2001. Latest version can be found at www.astronautix.com

Avdeyev

Sergei Vasilyevich Avdeyev Status: Active. Trained as: Cosmonaut. Profession: Engineer. Sex: Male. Marital Status: Married. Children: Two. Birth Date: 01 January 1956. Birth City: Chapaevsk. Birth State: Samara. Birth Country: Russia. Nationality: Russian. Affiliation: Civilian Engineer, Energia NPO. Group: 1987 Civilian Engineer Group. Detachment: NPOE-8. Date Selected: 26 March 1987. Number of Flights: 3. Total Time: 747.59 days. Number of EVAs: 10. Total EVA Time: 41.98 hours. Comments: Day and month of birth unknown.

Flight Log

Soyuz TM-13a - - 1991 August - Assignment: Proposed Backup Crew.
Soyuz TM-13 and TM-14 crews were reshuffled extensively due to commercial considerations and necessity of flying a Kazakh cosmonaut. This was the original crew assignment. Kaleri and Avdeyev were replaced by Kazakh researchers in the final crew.
Soyuz TM-14a - - 1991 End - Assignment: Proposed Prime Crew.
Soyuz TM-13 and TM-14 crews were reshuffled extensively due to commercial seat bookings by Austria and Germany and the necessity of flying a Kazakh-born cosmonaut as part of the Baikonur rental agreement. This was the original crew assignment. The Kazakh researchers were moved to the earlier Soyuz TM-13 flight.
Soyuz TM-14 - - 1992 Mar 17 - Assignment: Backup Crew. Flight details: Soyuz TM-14.
Mir Expedition EO-11. Joint flight with Germany. Docked at the Kvant rear port at 12:33 GMT on March 19. The Soyuz TM-14 crew, Aleksandr Viktorenko and Aleksandr Kaleri, returned to Earth together with French astronaut Michel Tognini. The Soyuz TM-14 undocked from Mir at 21:47 GMT on Aug 9, and landed in Kazakhstan at 01:07 GMT on August 10.
Soyuz TM-15 - - 1992 Jul 27 - Assignment: Prime Crew. Flight Time: 188.90 days. Flight details: Soyuz TM-15.
Mir Expedition EO-12. Russian astronauts Solovyov and Avdeev and French astronaut Tognini were inserted into an initial 190 x 200 km orbit inclined 51.6 deg. Later on July 27 they maneuvered to a 223 x 343 km orbit, and on July 28 docked with Mir in its 405 x 410 km orbit. Aleksandr Solovyov and Sergey Avdeev undocked from the Mir complex aboard Soyuz TM-15 on February 1 and landed the same day in Kazakhstan after six months in space at 03:58 GMT. Soyuz TM-15's flight was an in-orbit record for a Soyuz spaceship - 188 days 21 h 39 m.
EVA Soyuz TM-15-1 - - 1992 Sep 3 - Assignment: EVA Crew. EVA Duration: 3.93 hours.
Began installation of VDU thruster pod on Sofora tower.
EVA Soyuz TM-15-2 - - 1992 Sep 7 - Assignment: EVA Crew. EVA Duration: 5.13 hours.
Continued installation of VDU thruster pod on Sofora tower.
EVA Soyuz TM-15-3 - - 1992 Sep 11 - Assignment: EVA Crew. EVA Duration: 5.73 hours.
Completed installation of VDU thruster pod on Sofora tower.
EVA Soyuz TM-15-4 - - 1992 Sep 15 - Assignment: EVA Crew. EVA Duration: 3.55 hours.
Installed Kurs docking system antenna on Kristall module.
Soyuz TM-21 - - 1995 Mar 14 - Assignment: Backup Crew. Flight details: Soyuz TM-21.
Mir Expedition EO-18. Soyuz TM-21 carried the EO-18 Mir crew and American Norman Thagard. Thagard was the first American to be launched in a Soyuz. Soyuz docked with Mir at 07:45:26 GMT on March 16 . On July 4 Soyuz TM-21 undocked and backed off to a distance of 100 m from Mir. The US space shuttle Atlantis, with the EO-18 crew aboard, then undocked and began a flyaround at a distance of 210 m, while the EO-19 crew aboard Soyuz took pictures before redocking with the station. Soyuz TM-21 again undocked with the EO-19 crew on September 11 from the Kvant rear port on Mir and landed at 50 deg 41'N 68 deg 15'E, 108 km northeast of Arkalyk in Kazakhstan, at 06:52:40 GMT .
Soyuz TM-22 - - 1995 Sep 3 - Assignment: Prime Crew. Flight Time: 179.07 days. Flight details: Soyuz TM-22.
Mir Expedition EO-20. Crew commander was Yuriy Pavlovich Gidzenko of the Russian Air Force. Flight engineer was Sergey Vasilyevich Avdeev of RKK Energiya, and cosmonaut-researcher was Thomas Reiter of the European Space Agency. Soyuz TM-22 docked with Mir's front (-X) port at 10:29:54 GMT on September 5 and the hatch was opened at 11:01:23. On February 29 the crew undocked from Mir in Soyuz TM-22, and at 10:42 GMT they landed in Kazakhstan.
EVA Soyuz TM-22-1 - - 1995 Oct 20 - Assignment: EVA Crew. EVA Duration: 5.27 hours.
Sample cassettes installed in ESEF (European Science Exposure Facility).
EVA Soyuz TM-22-2 - - 1995 Dec 8 - Assignment: EVA Crew. EVA Duration: 0.48 hours.
Repositioned docking adapter.
Soyuz TM-26 - - 1997 Aug 5 - Assignment: Backup Crew. Flight details: Soyuz TM-26.
Mir Expedition EO-24. The Soyuz docked manually at 17:02 GMT August 7. Over the next six months the crew undertook seven internal and external spacewalks to repair the crippled space station. Solovyov and Vinogradov together with French astronaut Eyharts (launched aboard Soyuz TM-27) undocked from the forward port on Mir at 05:52 GMT on February 19, 1998, fired their deorbit engines at 08:16 GMT and landed in Kazakstan at 50 deg 11 N, 67 deg 31 E at 09:10 GMT.
Soyuz TM-28 - - 1998 Aug 13 - Assignment: Prime Crew. Flight Time: 379.62 days. Flight details: Soyuz TM-28.
Soyuz TM-28 docked at 10:56 GMT on August 15 with the rear (Kvant) port of the Mir space station, which had been vacated at 09:28 GMT on August 12 by Progress M-39. The EO-25 crew, Musabayev and Budarin, landed with Baturin on Aug 25, leaving the EO-26 crew of Padalka and Avdeyev on the station. As only one final Soyuz mission to Mir was planned, with two of the seats on that Soyuz pre-sold to Slovak and French experimenters, the return crew of Soyuz TM-28 was subject to constant replanning and revision. On February 8, 1999, at 11:23 GMT Padalka and Avdeyev undocked from Mir's -X port in Soyuz TM-28, and redocked at the +X Kvant port at 11:39 GMT, freeing up the front port for the Soyuz TM-29 docking. Finally on February 27, 1999 EO-26 commander Padalka and Slovak cosmonaut Bella undocked Soyuz TM-28 from the Kvant rear docking port at 22:52 GMT, landing in Kazakhstan on February 28 at 02:14 GMT. Avdeyev remained on Mir with the EO-27 crew delivered on Soyuz TM-29, heading for a manned space flight time record.
EVA Soyuz TM-28-1 - - 1998 Sep 15 - Assignment: EVA Crew. EVA Duration: 0.50 hours.
After donning spacesuits, the PKhO compartment of the Mir core module was depressurized and the crew entered the dead Spektr module at 20:00 GMT. They reconnected some cables for the solar panel steering mechanism and closed the hatch a half hour later. The PKhO was then repressurized.
EVA Soyuz TM-28-2 - - 1998 Nov 10 - Assignment: EVA Crew. EVA Duration: 5.90 hours.
Padalka and Avdeyev made the EVA from the Kvant-2 airlock on the Mir. The walk began at 19:24 GMT. The cosmonauts installed a meteoroid detector in for the upcoming Leonid shower, and hand-launched the Spoutnik-41 amateur-radio mini-satellite. The space walk concluded at 01:18 GMT on November 11.
EVA Soyuz TM-29-2 - - 1999 Jul 23 - Assignment: EVA Crew. EVA Duration: 6.12 hours.
Mir spacewalk started at 11:06 GMT. Afanasyev and Avdeyev installed a new experimental 6-meter antenna but failed to deploy it.
EVA Soyuz TM-29-3 - - 1999 Jul 28 - Assignment: EVA Crew. EVA Duration: 5.37 hours.
The spacewalk started at 09:37 GMT. Afanasyev and Avdeyev erected an experimental 6-meter antenna. At the end of the experiment the antenna was jettisoned.

Back to Index

Last update 3 May 2001.
To contact astronauts or cosmonauts.
Contact Mark Wade with any corrections or comments. Cosmonaut data by Alexander B. Zheleznyakov.

Conditions for use of drawings, pictures, or other materials from this site..
© Mark Wade, 2001 .