Backup missions
Sergei has served as backup for three missions: Mir EO-8, STS-63 and ISS-7.
Mir EO-8
Sergei was backup flight engineer, along with pilot-cosmonaut Anatolii Artsebarskii, for the Mir EO-8 crew of Viktor Afanaseyev, Musa Manarov and Japanese television journalist Toyohiro Akiyama.
STS-63
Sergei was backup for Vladimir Titov (who was previously Sergei’s backup for the STS-60 mission). Vladimir was selected for the mission in September 1993. STS-63 launched on 3 February 1995 and landed on 11 February 1995.
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ISS Expedition 7
Sergei was backup mission commander. The mission, with a crew of three, was originally to be taken up on the Space Shuttle, but the Columbia disaster changed everything. The original crews are listed below.
| Name | Role | Origin |
|---|---|---|
| Yurii Ivanovich Malenchenko |
|
GCTC, Russia |
| Edward Tsang Lu |
|
NASA |
| Aleksandr Yur’evich Kaleri |
|
Energiya |
| Name | Role | Origin |
|---|---|---|
| Sergei Konstantinovich Krikalyov |
|
Energiya, Russia |
| John Lynch Phillips |
|
NASA, USA |
| Sergei Aleksandrovich Volkov |
|
GCTC, Russia |
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Sergei previously trained as backup Expedition 7 commander, and there are three photos in that gallery:
ISS Expedition 17
Sergei was assigned as backup for the Soyuz TMA-12/ISS-17 crew in 2006 (to launch in March 2008), but was removed from this in March 2007.
ISS Expedition 21A
Initallyh assigned to the backup crew in 2008 for ISS-21A (for cosmonaut Aleksandr Kaleri on the prime crew). The prime crew will launch on Soyuz TMA-18 in March 2010. As of 2009 he was designated Chief of the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center, so this flight assignment is canceled.
Links
- Encyclopedia Astronautica: Soyuz TM-11
- KSC: STS-63
- NASA Human Spaceflight: ISS-7