Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center
Cosmonaut training facility
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2022 | Valeri Polyakov passed away, marking the end of an era for Soviet and Russian cosmonauts. |
2021 | Kiviryan Harutyunovich, Alexander Kolyabin, and Sergey Teteryatnikov added to the corps, currently awaiting space mission assignments. |
June 2021 | Maksim Kharlamov becomes the head of the Cosmonaut Training Center in June. |
2019 | Gennadi Manakov passed away |
2018 | New cosmonauts selected, including Konstantin Borisov, Aleksandr Gorbunov, Alexander Grebenkin, and Kirill Peskov. |
2017 | Pavel Vlasov assumes leadership of the CTC. |
2015 | Boris Morukov passed away |
2015 | Gennady Padalka flew on Soyuz TMA-16M, further expanding his spaceflight record. |
2014 | Gennady Padalka flew on Soyuz TMA-14 and Soyuz TMA-04M, continuing his significant contributions to space exploration. |
2014 | Yelena Serova flew on Soyuz TMA-14M mission during the Russian Federation period. |
2014 | Yury Lonchakov becomes the head of the Cosmonaut Training Center. |
2012 | Several cosmonauts added to the corps, including Nikolai Chub, Pyotr Dubrov, Anna Kikina, Sergey Korsakov, and Dmitry Petelin. |
2010 | Sergey Kud-Sverchkov, Sergey Prokopyev, and Ivan Vagner selected to the Roscosmos Cosmonaut Corps. |
April 2010 | Andrei Borisenko flew on Soyuz TMA-21, contributing to International Space Station missions. |
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