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Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Skvortsov (Russian: Aлександр Aлександрович Скворцов; born May 6, 1966) is a Russian cosmonaut. He is a veteran of three spaceflights , which were long-duration missions aboard the International Space Station .
Graduated from Higher Military Pilot School, Armavir, 1964; Lieutenant Colonel, Russian Air Forces, Res.; was selected as cosmonaut on 28.10.1965 ( TsPK -3); OKP (cosmonaut basic training): 11/65 - 12/67; retired of medical reasons; later pilot in Soviet Air Forces and Deputy Commander, 153 rd Squadron, Moscow Military Area;
- 08.06.1942
- two
- Tambov / Tambov Oblast / Russian SFSR
- married
Jul 28, 1997 · Son of cosmonaut Aleksandr Skvortsov; graduated from Stavropol Sudets Higher Air Engineering School of the Air Defense, 1987; graduated from Academy of Air Defense, Tver, 1997; Colonel, Russian Air Force (Ret. mid 2012); was selected as cosmonaut on 28.07.1997 ( TsPK -12); OKP (cosmonaut basic training) until 11/1999. ©.
- 06.05.1966
- one
- Shcholkovo / Oblast Moscow / Russian SFSR
- married
Aug 6, 2019 · Image Article. Cosmonaut Alexander Skvortsov of Expedition 60 trains on the tele-robotically operated rendezvous unit (TORU) two days before the arrival of the Progress 73 (73P) cargo ship.
Jul 18, 2019 · Commanding Soyuz MS-13 and serving as a flight engineer aboard the current, in-progress Expedition 60 and, from October, on Expedition 61, is 53-year-old Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Skvortsov, making his third trip into space.
Dec 11, 2019 · iss061e066699 (Dec. 3, 2019) — Roscosmos cosmonaut Alexander Skvortsov trains on a computer inside the Zvezda service module for the unlikely scenario he would need to telerobotically maneuver a Russian cargo craft to a docking port on the International Space Station.
The cosmonauts installed an automated phased antenna array (AFAR). They also relocated a part of the Obstanovka experiment. Other tasks included verifying the correct installation of the universal work platform (URM-D), taking samples from one of Zvezda's windows, and jettisoning an experiment frame.
