Mikhail Kornienko Biography

Mikhail Borisovich Kornienko was selected along with Scott Kelly for a year long mission aboard the ISS. Kornienko began the year long mission in March 2015 blasting off on Soyuz TMA-16M. On February 24 1998 Kornienko was selected as a test cosmonaut candidate and in 1999 following basic training at the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center he was qualified as a test cosmonaut. Since 1999 he has trained in the International Space Station group. He served on the ISS Expedition 8 backup crew as a flight engineer. In 2005 he was assigned to the Soyuz TMA-10 and Expedition 15 back-up crew as Flight Engineer 1. Kornienko was aboard the space station as a Flight Engineer being part of the Expedition 23/24 crew. He lifted off on April 2 2010 along with fellow Russian cosmonaut Aleksandr Skvortsov and NASA astronaut Tracy Caldwell-Dyson aboard Soyuz TMA-18 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome.

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