Maksim Surayev | |
|---|---|
Максим Сураев | |
 Surayev in 2009 | |
| Member of theState Duma forMoscow Oblast | |
| In office 5 October 2016 – 12 October 2021 | |
| Preceded by | constituency re-established |
| Succeeded by | Vyacheslav Fomichyov |
| Constituency | Balashikha (No. 117) |
| Personal details | |
| Born | (1972-05-24)24 May 1972 (age 53) |
| Party | United Russia |
| Education | Kacha Air Force Pilot School Zhukovsky Air Force Engineering Academy RANEPA |
| Occupation | Fighter Pilot |
| Space career | |
| Roscosmos cosmonaut | |
| Rank | Colonel |
Time in space | 334d 12h 11min |
| Selection | 1997 TsPK Cosmonaut Group |
TotalEVAs | 2 |
Total EVA time | 9hr 22min |
| Missions | Soyuz TMA-16 (Expedition 21/22),Soyuz TMA-13M (Expedition 40/41) |
Mission insignia |     |
Maksim Viktorovich Surayev (Russian:Максим Викторович Сураев, born 24 May 1972) is a Russian politician and retiredcosmonaut.
Surayev was a backup crew member for ISS Expeditions 17 and 19 from 2006 to 2009. In 2009, he commanded a spacecraft that traveled to theInternational Space Station where he served asflight engineer for 167 days, returning in 2010. Surayev also served as a flight engineer on the International Space Station as a member of the crew of Expedition 22, and flight engineer and expedition commander of Expeditions 40 and 41. In his career, Surayev made two spacewalks, one in 2010 with fellow cosmonautOleg Kotov which lasted 5 hours and 44 minutes and again in 2014 withAleksandr Samokutyaev in a spacewalk that lasted 3 hours and 38 minutes.
Surayev retired from the cosmonaut corps in 2016 and waselected to theState Duma from theUnited Russia party. He served in theState Duma between 2016 and 2021. In 2010, he was awarded Russia's highest honour when he was made aHero of the Russian Federation.
Surayev was born inChelyabinsk. During his childhood, Suraev lived in several places due to his father's military commitments. First he moved from his birthplace, Chelyabinsk in the Urals, to Siberia. When his father entered the military academy, the Suraev family moved again to the environs of Moscow. While his father served several postings, Suraev again moved from one town to another around Moscow.[1]
Surayev is married to Suraeva (née Khorokhordina) Anna Alexandrovna. They have two daughters, Arina and Ksenia. His recreational interests include sports and reading.[2] He is a qualified diver and paraborne instructor.
Surayev graduated with honors from theKacha Air Force Pilot School as pilot-engineer in 1994; graduated with honors from the Zhukovski Air Force Academy in 1997 as pilot-engineer-researcher. In 2007, he received a law degree from the Russian Academy of Civil Service.
From December 1997 to November 1999, Surayev completed basic space training. In November 1999 he was qualified as a test-cosmonaut. From January 2000 he was in ISS advanced training. From March 2006 until April 2008 Surayev was assigned as a backup ISSExpedition 17 crew member. From April 2008 until March 2009 he was a member of the ISSExpedition 19 backup crew.
Surayev served as a Flight Engineer on theInternational Space Station as a member of theExpedition 22 crew. He also served in the same capacity duringExpedition 21[3] having traveled to the station aboardSoyuz TMA-16 on 30 September 2009 from the Baikonour cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.[4] He was the commander of the Soyuz spacecraft. Surayev withJeffrey Williams landed their Soyuz TMA-16 spacecraft on the steppes of Kazakhstan on 18 March 2010, concluding a 167-day stay aboard the International Space Station.[5]
Surayev kept a blog while in space.[6][7]
Surayev served as a Flight Engineer on the International Space Station as a member of theExpedition 40/41 crew. The Soyuz TMA-13M spacecraft commanded by Surayev and carrying crew matesAlexander Gerst andReid Wiseman lifted off from Baikonour's historic 1/5 launch pad on 28 May 2014.[8] Soyuz TMA-13M docked with the space station'sRassvet Module on 29 May, approximately six hours after launch.
As part of the ISS crew, Surayev conducted scientific activities and saw extensive visiting vehicle traffic including the RussianProgress freighter, the AmericanDragon andCygnus spacecraft, and the final mission of the European ATV -Georges Lemaître ATV. He served as ISS expedition commander of Expedition 41 from 10 September until 10 November 2014. The mission returned to Earth on 10 November at 03:58 UTC.[9]
On 14 January 2010 Surayev went outside the ISS into space with fellow Russian cosmonautOleg Kotov to begin his first spacewalk. The spacewalk started at 10:05 GMT when Surayev and Kotov, wearing new RussianOrlan-MK computerised spacesuits, floated out of thePirs Docking compartment airlock. The spacewalking duo connected cables between thePoisk andZvezda modules, installed docking targets and Kurs aerials and attached additional handrails to exit hatches.[citation needed] They also retrieved a Russian biological experiment from the outside hull of the ISS and tossed out two big wads of space trash that contained unneeded insulation covers. The spacewalk lasted 5 hours and 44 minutes.[10]
Surayev and cosmonautAleksandr Samokutyaev performed a spacewalk (Russian EVA-40) outside the space station on 22 October 2014.[11] Although planned as a six-hour spacewalk, the cosmonauts were able to complete all the scheduled tasks in 3 hours and 38 minutes. During theextravehicular activity, Surayev and Samokutyaev dismantled the RK 21-8 Radiometria science payload and the 2ASF1-1 and 2ASF1-2 KURS antennas from thePoisk module.[12] The RK-21-8 science payload was installed aboard the Space Station during the Russian EVA-28 in early 2011 and consisted of an antenna system with calibrator, a Microwave Radiometer receiver system and a Command-Information Unit. It was used for a series of seismic forecast and earthquake studies. The RK-21-8 payload was jettisoned by Surayev 33 minutes into the EVA on a safe departure trajectory from the Space Station. Surayev and Samokutyaev also released a protective cover from the EXPOSE-R payload developed by theEuropean Space Agency to conduct astrobiology studies by exposing samples and experiments to the space environment. When the cosmonauts finished operations at thePoisk module, they photographed the surface of the orbital station for specialists to assess its condition later. Russian EVA-40 was the 184th spacewalk in support of the Space Station assembly.
In 2016, he waselected to theState Duma from theUnited Russia party and retired from the cosmonaut corps. He served in theState Duma between 2016 and 2021.
Maksim Surayev is a recipient of the Gold Star Medal of Hero of Russia.[13] He received the medal from the Russian presidentDmitry Medvedev on 30 December 2010.
Surayev is qualified to flyL-39 andSu-27 aircraft, and has logged around 700 hours of flight time. Surayev is a Class 3 Air Force pilot, a qualified diver and paraborne instructor.
This article incorporatespublic domain material from websites or documents of theNational Aeronautics and Space Administration.
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| Preceded by | ISS Expedition Commander 10 September 2014 to 10 November 2014 | Succeeded by |
