Anton Shkaplerov | |
|---|---|
.jpg) Shkaplerov at theExpedition 42/43 crew news conference in 2014 | |
| Born | (1972-02-20)20 February 1972 (age 53) |
| Status | Retired |
| Nationality | Russian |
| Occupation(s) | Colonel, Russian Air Force |
| Space career | |
| Roscosmos cosmonaut | |
Time in space | 709 days 08 hours 04 minutes |
| Selection | 2003 Intercosmos Group |
TotalEVAs | 3 |
Total EVA time | 21 hours 39 minutes |
| Missions | Soyuz TMA-22 (Expedition 29/30),Soyuz TMA-15M (Expedition 42/43),Soyuz MS-07 (Expedition 54/55),Soyuz MS-19 (Expedition 65/66) |
Mission insignia |         |
Anton Nikolaevich Shkaplerov (Russian:Антон Николаевич Шкаплеров; born 20 February 1972) is a former Russiancosmonaut. He is a veteran of four spaceflights.[1]
Shkaplerov was born 20 February 1972, inSevastopol,Crimea.[2] He is married to Tatyana Petrovna, and they have two daughters. His parents are Nikolay Ivanovich Shkaplerov and Tamara Viktorovna Shkaplerova. In 1989, Shkaplerov learned to fly in aYakovlev Yak-52, and after graduating from Sevastopol High School the same year, he entered theKachinsk Air Force Pilot School. He graduated in 1994 as a pilot-engineer, and then graduated from N. E. Zukovskiy Air Force Engineering School in 1997. His hobbies include sports, travel, fishing, and golf.[2]
After graduating in 1997, Shkaplerov served as a senior pilot-instructor in theRussian Air Force, flying Yak-52,L-29 andMiG-29 aircraft. He is a Class 2 Air Force pilot-instructor and an Instructor of General Parachute Training, having performed more than 300 parachute jumps. In May 2003, he was selected as a test-cosmonaut candidate at theYuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center, where he attended basic space training and was qualified as a test cosmonaut in June 2005. In 2007, Shkaplerov served as Director of Operations, Russian Space Agency, stationed at theJohnson Space Center inHouston, Texas, and was assigned as the back-up commander forExpedition 22.[2]
Shkaplerov served as a Flight Engineer forExpedition 29/30 aboard the ISS. He was the commander ofSoyuz TMA-22 and launched with flight engineersAnatoli Ivanishin andDan Burbank on 16 November 2011. After 2 days in orbit, they docked with theInternational Space Station (ISS) to begin Expedition 29/30. On 12 February 2012, Shkaplerov and fellow cosmonautOleg Kononenko conducted a six-hour spacewalk outside the ISS. They installed shields on the Zvezda Service Module to protect it from micrometeoroid orbital debris and move the Strela 1 crane from the Pirs docking compartment to the Poisk Mini Research Module (MRM-2). The duration was 6 hours 15 minutes.[3] They spent 165 days in space before undocking and returning to Earth on 27 April 2012.
On 23 November 2014, Shkaplerov commandedSoyuz TMA-15M alongside flight engineersSamantha Cristoforetti andTerry Virts (along with threeLego minifigure replicas of them) from the Baikonur Cosmodrome.[4] It successfully docked at the ISS roughly six hours later, and the crew joined the Expedition 42 crew which consisted of commanderBarry Wilmore and Flight EngineersAleksandr Samokutyayev andYelena Serova.[5] The crew spent 199 days in space before returning to Earth on 11 June 2015. Shkaplerov's total time in space was brought to 365 days.
Shkaplerov was launched on into space on boardSoyuz MS-07 on 17 December 2017, withNASA astronautScott Tingle andNorishige Kanai ofJAXA.[6] He was the flight engineer ofExpedition 54 andcommander ofExpedition 55.
On 2 February 2018, Shkaplerov and Expedition 54 commanderAlexander Misurkin participated in an 8-hour 13 minutes spacewalk outside of the ISS to replace an old electronics box for a high-gain communications antenna. At completion, the two cosmonauts set a new record for the longest Russian spacewalk to date.[7]
Shkaplerov flew to the ISS on boardSoyuz MS-19 on 5 October 2021 with film directorKlim Shipenko and actressYulia Peresild, who were filmingThe Challenge, a joint project of Roscosmos,Channel One and theYellow, Black and White studio.[8][9] Shkaplerov appeared in some scenes of the film.[10] Shipenko and Peresild returned to Earth onSoyuz MS-18 withOleg Novitsky, while Shkaplerov became ISS commander as part ofExpedition 66.[11]
On 19 January 2022, he participated in an 7-hour 11 minutes spacewalk to configure thePrichal module to support visiting Soyuz and Progress vehicles.[12]
Shkaplerov landed on 30 March 2022 with Russian cosmonautPyotr Dubrov and American astronautMark Vande Hei.[13]
| # | Spacecraft launch | Launch date | Mission | Spacecraft landing | Landing date | Duration | Spacewalk times | Spacewalk duration |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Soyuz TMA-22 | 14 November 2011, 04:14UTC | ISS-29 /ISS-30 | Soyuz TMA-22 | 27 April 2012, 11:45 UTC | 165 days 7 hours 31 minutes | 1 | 6 hours 15 minutes |
| 2 | Soyuz TMA-15M | 23 November 2014, 21:01UTC | ISS-42 /ISS-43 | Soyuz TMA-15M | 11 June 2015, 13:44 UTC | 199 days 16 hours 43 minutes | 0 | 0 |
| 3 | Soyuz MS-07 | 17 December 2017, 07:21UTC | ISS-54 /ISS-55 | Soyuz MS-07 | 3 June 2018, 12:39 UTC | 168 days 5 hours 18 minutes | 1 | 8 hours 13 minutes |
| 4 | Soyuz MS-19 | 5 October 2021, 08:55UTC | ISS-65 /ISS-66 | Soyuz MS-19 | 30 March 2022, 11:28:26 UTC | 176 days 2 hours 33 minutes | 1 | 7 hours 11 minutes |
| Source:[14] | 709 days 8 hours 4 minutes | 3 | 21 hours 39 minutes | |||||
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| Preceded by | ISS Commander (Expedition 55) 16 September to 18 November 2012 | Succeeded by |
| Preceded by | ISS Commander (Expedition 66) 29 March to 4 May 2022 | Succeeded by |
