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Mikhail Tyurin

Mikhail Vladislavovich Tyurin
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Cosmonaut
Nationality Russian
Born (1960-03-02) March 2, 1960 (age 57)
Kolomna, Russia, USSR
Other occupation
Mechanical Engineer
Time in space
532 days, 02 hours, 50 minutes
Selection 1994 Cosmonaut Group
Missions STS-105, Expedition 3, STS-108, Soyuz TMA-9 (Expedition 14), Soyuz TMA-11M (Expedition 38/39)
Mission insignia
Sts-105-patch.png Iss expedition 3 mission patch.png STS-108 Patch.svg Soyuz TMA-9 Patch.png ISS Expedition 14 patch.svg Soyuz-TMA-11M-Mission-Patch.png ISS Expedition 38 Patch.svg
Awards Hero of the Russian Federation medal.png

Mikhail Vladislavovich Tyurin (Russian: Михаил Владиславович Тюрин) (born March 2, 1960) is a Russian 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.Space Shuttle Discovery 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. Endeavour's STS-108 mission delivered the Expedition 4 crew to the ISS and landed at KSC on December 17, 2001.


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