Roscosmos cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev is a mission specialist for NASA’s SpaceX Crew-12 mission. This is his second spaceflight. Upon his arrival to the International Space Station, he will join Expedition 74/75, kicking off a long-duration science expedition aboard the orbiting laboratory. He was selected as a Roscosmos cosmonaut in 2012. He graduated from the Krasnodar Military Aviation Institute in 2004, specializing in aircraft operations and air traffic organization, and earned qualifications as a pilot engineer. Prior to his selection as a cosmonaut, he served as deputy commander of an Ilyushin-38 aircraft unit in the Kamchatka Region, logging more than 600 flight hours and achieving the rank of second-class military pilot. In 2023, he flew to the space station as a mission specialist during NASA’s SpaceX Crew-6 mission, spending 186 days in orbit, as an Expedition 69 flight engineer. For his achievements, Fedyaev was awarded the title Hero of the Russian Federation and received the Yuri Gagarin Medal.
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