Oleg Valeriyevich Kotov was born on 27 October 1965 in Simferopol, Crimean oblast in the Ukrainian SSR. After a career as a physician assigned to the Soviet space program, he joined the Russian cosmon
Kotov in 2006
Oleg Kotov and STS-132 commander Kenneth Ham shake hands at the farewell ceremony.
Oleg Kotov sitting in a chair outside the Soyuz TMA-17 spacecraft just minutes after landing.
Oleg Kotov on Expedition 38 performs the Motocard experiment in the Zvezda Service Module.
Sergey Nikolayevich Ryazansky is a Russian cosmonaut. He was selected as commander of the IMBP-6 cosmonaut group in 2003, but later transferred to the TsPK Cosmonaut Group. Ryazansky made his first sp
Oleg Kotov
…handrails to exit hatches. The spacewalk lasted 5 hours and 44 minutes. On 9 November 2013, Kotov performed his fourth spacewalk outside the ISS with Sergey Ryazansky. They took the Olympic torch for the 2014 Winter Olympic Games outside ISS. They also continued work on an extravehicular activity workstation and…
Ryazansky exercises on the Treadmill Vibration Isolation System (TVIS) in the Zvezda Service Module.
Ryazansky working in Rassvet
Sergey Ryazanskiy is pictured during his first career spacewalk on 9 November 2013.