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Aleksandr A. Skvortsov
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supercluster.com →This astronaut crossed the Kármán Line (100 km), the internationally accepted boundary of space. Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Skvortsov is a Russian cosmonaut. He is a veteran of three spaceflights, which were long-duration missions aboard the International Space Station. His first spaceflight took place from April to September 2010, and was launched with the spacecraft Soyuz TMA-18. He arrived at the station part way through Expedition 23, of which Oleg Kotov was the Commander. When Expedition 24 began in June, Skvortsov became Commander. Stay on top of everything leaving Earth; get mission info, countdowns, livestreams, and customized notifications that alert you when a rocket is launching or when a space station is in the skies overhead.
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Aleksandr
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Soviet Union
- Place of birth
- Shchyolkovo
- Educated at
- Military Academy of Air and Space Defense
- Languages spoken
- Russian
- Native language
- Russian
- Image
- Alexander Skvortsov cropped.jpg
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- Commons category
- Alexander Skvortsov
- date of birth
- 1966-05-06
- P450
- Expedition 61
- time in space
- 497185
- allegiance
- Soviet Union
- member of the crew of
- Soyuz TMA-12M
- described at URL
- www.supercluster.com/astronauts/aleksandr-a.-skvortsov
- member of
- Expedition 24
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