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NAME: Mikhail Borisovich Kornienko
Test Cosmonaut of the Energia Rocket/Space Corporation (RSC)
PERSONAL DATA: Born April 15, 1960, in Syzran, Kuibyshev region, Russia. Married to Irina Kornienko, a medical doctor. They have a grown daughter. His father, Boris G. Kornienko (1928-1965), a military pilot, perished in an airplane crash. His mother, Faina M. Kornienko is retired.
EDUCATION: Graduated from secondary school # 15, Chelyabinsk, Russia, in 1977. From 1981-1987 he studied at the Moscow Aviation Institute named after S. Ordzhonikidze.
EXPERIENCE: Upon graduation from school in 1977, he worked at a radio equipment plant in Chelyabinsk, Russia. In May 1978, Mikhail was called to service in the Soviet Army. He served in the paratrooper forces in Kirovobad, Azerbaidzhan, the USSR. In May 1980, he completed his military service with the rank of a junior sergeant. From 1980-1986 Kornienko worked for the Moscow Militia. At the same time he attended the evening Department of Moscow Aviation Institute. Upon graduation from the Moscow Aviation Institute in 1987, he was qualified as a liquid propellant rocket engines mechanical engineer. In 1986, he resigned from the Militia and entered a mechanical engineering design bureau. During 1986 to 1991 he worked in the Baikonur Launch Facility as a launch equipment specialist.
October 1991 to April 1995 he worked for commercial companies. In October 1995, Kornienko started working at the Energia Rocket/Space Corporation (RSC) as an engineer. He was assigned with developing technical documentation for cosmonaut primary and backup crew tests and training. He took part in EVA tests in simulated zero-gravity at the hydrolab and at the Selen dynamic stand. In the process of this work he acquired experience in organizing extravehicular repair/refurbishment and assembly activities on the Mir orbital station. He also directly participated in testing the Energia RSC production on the testing ground.
In 1998, Kornienko was selected as a test cosmonaut candidate and, in 1991, following basic training at the Yu. Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center, was qualified as a test cosmonaut. Since 1999, he has trained in the ISS group.
Presently Mikhail Kornienko is assigned to the ISS-8 backup crew as a flight engineer.
AUGUST 2002
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