Anton Shkaplerov
Shkaplerov at the Expedition 42/43 crew news conference in 2014
Born (1972-02-20) 20 February 1972
Sevastopol, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union
StatusRetired
NationalityRussian
Occupation(s)Colonel, Russian Air Force
Space career
Roscosmos cosmonaut
Time in space
709 days 08 hours 04 minutes
Selection2003 Intercosmos Group
Total EVAs
3
Total EVA time
21 hours 39 minutes
MissionsSoyuz 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 Russian cosmonaut. He is a veteran of four spaceflights.[1]

Early life

Shkaplerov was born 20 February 1972, in Sevastopol, 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 a Yakovlev Yak-52, and after graduating from Sevastopol High School the same year, he entered the Kachinsk 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]

Cosmonaut career

Shkaplerov participates in a session of EVA in February 2012.

After graduating in 1997, Shkaplerov served as a senior pilot-instructor in the Russian Air Force, flying Yak-52, L-29 and MiG-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 the Yuri 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 the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, and was assigned as the back-up commander for Expedition 22.[2]

Expedition 29/30

Shkaplerov served as a Flight Engineer for Expedition 29/30 aboard the ISS. He was the Commander of Soyuz TMA-22 and launched with flight engineers Anatoli Ivanishin and Dan Burbank on 16 November 2011. After 2 days in orbit, they docked with the International Space Station (ISS) to begin Expedition 29/30. On 12 February 2012, Shkaplerov and fellow cosmonaut Oleg 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.

Expedition 42/43

Shkaplerov (left) pictured alongside Scott Kelly in the Destiny laboratory

On 23 November 2014, Shkaplerov commanded Soyuz TMA-15M alongside flight engineers Samantha Cristoforetti and Terry Virts (along with three Lego 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 Commander Barry Wilmore and Flight Engineers Aleksandr Samokutyayev and Yelena 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.

Expedition 54/55

Shkaplerov was launched on into space on board Soyuz MS-07 on 17 December 2017, with NASA astronaut Scott Tingle and Norishige Kanai of JAXA.[6] He was the flight engineer of Expedition 54 and commander of Expedition 55.

On 2 February 2018, Shkaplerov and Expedition 54 Commander Alexander 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]

Expedition 65/66

Shkaplerov flew to the ISS on board Soyuz MS-19 on 5 October 2021 with film director Klim Shipenko and actress Yulia Peresild, who were filming The Challenge, a joint project of Roscosmos, Channel One and the Yellow, Black and White studio.[8][9] Shkaplerov will appear in some scenes of the film.[10] When Expedition 64/65's Commander, Oleg Novitskiy, returned to Earth on Soyuz MS-18 with Shipenko and Peresild, Shkaperlov became ISS commander as part of Expedition 66.[11]

On 19 January 2022, he participated in an 7-hour 11 minutes spacewalk to configure the Prichal module to support visiting Soyuz and Progress vehicles.[12]

Shkaplerov landed on 30 March 2022, with Russian cosmonaut Pyotr Dubrov and American astronaut Mark Vande Hei.[13]

Statistics

#Spacecraft launchLaunch dateMissionSpacecraft landingLanding dateDurationSpacewalk timesSpacewalk duration
1Soyuz TMA-2214 November 2011, 04:14 UTCISS-29 / ISS-30Soyuz TMA-2227 April 2012, 11:45 UTC165 days 7 hours 31 minutes16 hours 15 minutes
2Soyuz TMA-15M23 November 2014, 21:01 UTCISS-42 / ISS-43Soyuz TMA-15M11 June 2015, 13:44 UTC199 days 16 hours 43 minutes00
3Soyuz MS-0717 December 2017, 07:21 UTCISS-54 / ISS-55Soyuz MS-073 June 2018, 12:39 UTC168 days 5 hours 18 minutes 18 hours 13 minutes
4Soyuz MS-195 October 2021, 08:55 UTCISS-65 / ISS-66Soyuz MS-1930 March 2022, 11:28:26 UTC176 days 2 hours 33 minutes 17 hours 11 minutes
Source:[14]709 days 8 hours 4 minutes 321 hours 39 minutes

See also

References

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  1. ↑ "Soyuz MS-19 to send a "movie crew" to ISS". russianspaceweb.com. 22 October 2021. Retrieved 16 November 2021.
  2. 1 2 3 NASA (July 2011). "Cosmonaut Bio: Anton Shkaplerov". Archived from the original on 6 December 2013. Retrieved 4 April 2023.
  3. ↑ "Soyuz TMA-03M". Russianspaceweb.com. 23 December 2011. Retrieved 25 December 2011.
  4. ↑ "Astronauts get their own LEGO minifigures on space station". collectSPACE.com. 8 January 2015. Retrieved 26 May 2023.
  5. ↑ Associated Press. "Crew docks at International Space Station". USA Today. Retrieved 24 November 2014.
  6. ↑ Chris Gebhardt (17 December 2017). "Soyuz MS-07 launches on final human mission of 2017". nasaspaceflight.com.
  7. ↑ "Cosmonauts Break Russian Spacewalk Record During Space Station Antenna Repair". SPACE.com. 2 February 2018. Retrieved 3 February 2018.
  8. ↑ "Актриса и режиссер фильма «Вызов» полетят к МКС 5 октября" (in Russian). ТАСС. 29 April 2021. Retrieved 30 April 2021.
  9. ↑ "Экспедиция МКС-65/66. План полёта". Русский космос (in Russian). April 2021. p. 17.
  10. ↑ "Soyuz MS-19 | Soyuz 2.1a". Everyday Astronaut. 1 October 2021. Retrieved 1 October 2021.
  11. ↑ "ISS Expedition 66 Change of Command Ceremony". 6 November 2021. Retrieved 5 December 2021.
  12. ↑ "Cosmonauts complete Russian spacewalk to integrate Prichal node". www.nasaspaceflight.com. 19 January 2022. Retrieved 19 January 2022.
  13. ↑ Navin, Joseph (29 March 2022). "Soyuz MS-19 lands in Kazakhstan amid tense U.S.-Russian relations". NASASpaceFlight.com. Retrieved 8 May 2022.
  14. ↑ "Statistics - Anton Shkaplerov". spacefacts.de. Retrieved 22 December 2017.
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