Denis Matveev

Denis Vladimirovich Matveev (Russian Cyrillic: Денис Владимирович Матвеев; born April 25, 1983, in Leningrad, RSFSR, now St. Petersburg, Russia) is a Russian cosmonaut.

Denis Vladimirovich Matveev
Denis Matveev at JSC, 2021
Born (1983-04-25) 25 April 1983
StatusActive
NationalityRussian
OccupationTest cosmonaut
Space career
Roscosmos cosmonaut
Previous occupation
Engineer
Time in space
194 days, 17 hours and 4 minutes
SelectionTsPK-15 Cosmonaut Group
Total EVAs
4
Total EVA time
26 hours, 7 minutes
MissionsSoyuz MS-21 (Expedition 66/67)
Mission insignia

Biography

Matveev received his degree in computing and networks from the Bauman Moscow State Technical University in 2006. After graduation, Matveev began working at the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia as a junior research assistant. He was promoted to engineer in 2009.

Matveev was selected as a cosmonaut in 2010. He was appointed to begin training on October 12, 2010, and was named a test cosmonaut on July 31, 2012.

The Russian magazine Cosmonautics News reported that Matveev had been selected as a flight engineer for the Soyuz MS-06 spaceflight to the International Space Station;[1] however, he did not launch on this mission, and was replaced by Ivan Vagner. Ultimately, neither Vagner nor Matveev flew on this mission. He was reassigned to Soyuz MS-21, which launched on March 18, 2022. After 194 days, MS-21 landed in Kazakhstan on September 29, 2022.[2]

References

  1. "О космонавтах и астронавтах" (in Russian). Cosmonautics Magazine. Retrieved 2020-12-05.
  2. Harwood, William (September 29, 2022). "Russian Soyuz brings three cosmonauts home from space station – Spaceflight Now". Retrieved September 30, 2022.


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