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Gennady Padalka | |
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_(cropped).jpg) Padalka at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in March 2015 | |
| Born | Gennady Ivanovich Padalka 21 June 1958 Krasnodar, Russian SFSR, USSR |
| Status | Retired |
| Alma mater | Yeysk Military Aviation College |
| Occupation | Pilot |
| Awards | |
| Space career | |
| Roscosmos cosmonaut | |
| Rank | Colonel, Russian Air Force |
Time in space | 878 days, 11 hours and 29 minutes |
| Selection | TsPK-10 Cosmonaut Group (1989) |
Total EVAs | 10 |
Total EVA time | 38 hours and 40 minutes |
| Missions | |
Mission insignia |          |
| Retirement | 28 April 2017 |
Gennady Ivanovich Padalka (Russian: Гeнна́дий Ива́нович Па́далка; born 21 June 1958 in Krasnodar, Soviet Union) is a Russian Air Force officer and Roscosmos cosmonaut. Padalka is the only person to have served as the commander of the International Space Station (ISS) four times. He previously held the record for the most time spent in space at 878 days until Oleg Kononenko broke this record on February 4, 2024 at 07:30:08 UTC and is currently at 2nd position.[1][2][3][4][5][6] He worked on both Mir and the International Space Station.
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- ^ Russian astronaut record-breaker Padalka returns to Earth, BBC News, 12 September 2015