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| Mikhail Kornienko | |
|---|---|
| Name | Mikhail Kornienko |
| Native name | Михаил Борисович Корниенко |
| Birth date | 1960-01-15 |
| Birth place | Rubtsovsk, Altai Krai, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union |
| Occupation | Flight engineer, cosmonaut |
| Nationality | Russian |
| Missions | Soyuz TMA-01M, Soyuz TMA-18M, Expedition 23/24, Expedition 43/44 |
| Rank | Colonel, Russian Air Force |
Mikhail Kornienko is a Russian cosmonaut and Colonel who served as a long-duration crew member aboard the International Space Station and participated in a year-long study of human adaptation to spaceflight. He flew on multiple Soyuz missions and worked with international partners on research spanning physiology, robotics, and Earth observation.
Kornienko was born in Rubtsovsk, Altai Krai, within the Russian SFSR of the Soviet Union. He attended aviation and technical schools tied to institutions such as the Gagarin Air Force Academy and pursued higher education at military academies related to the Russian Air Force and aerospace engineering networks including connections to MAI-type programs and regional institutes. His early career involved service at air bases affiliated with units that trace heritage to formations like the Long-Range Aviation divisions and training nodes used by graduates who later joined organizations such as Roscosmos and the Russian Space Forces.
Selected as part of a Roscosmos cosmonaut intake, Kornienko underwent cosmonaut training at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center (GCTC), where he trained alongside cosmonauts and astronauts from agencies including NASA, ESA, JAXA, and CSA. His preparation encompassed survival training in environments used by crews bound for programs such as Soyuz TMA operations, Space Shuttle era coordination, and ISS joint missions with personnel from ESA Astronaut Corps, Canadian Space Agency, and NASA Astronaut Corps. Training elements included simulators linked to the Zvezda (ISS module), maneuvers practiced with crews from Expedition 23, Expedition 24, and work with hardware developers like RSC Energia, Thales Alenia Space, and contractors that supported modules such as Poisk and Zarya.
Kornienko's flight roster includes missions launched aboard the Soyuz TMA-01M and Soyuz TMA-18M spacecraft, integrating into Expedition 23, Expedition 24, Expedition 43, and Expedition 44 crews. During these expeditions he coordinated operations with crewmates from agencies such as NASA, JAXA, ESA, CSA, and Roscosmos colleagues. Mission activities interfaced with projects such as Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer, Robonaut, and payloads developed by institutions like MIT, Max Planck Society, and CNES. Flight operations involved docking procedures that mirrored protocols used in Apollo–Soyuz Test Project heritage training and interfaced with ground centers including Mission Control Center (Moscow) and Johnson Space Center.
Kornienko is best known for a continuous year-long residency aboard the International Space Station undertaken with a NASA partner to study extended microgravity exposure analogous to proposed missions to Mars and habitation scenarios considered by organizations such as ESA and Roscosmos. The year-long experiment emphasized physiological and psychological adaptation measurements comparable to analog work at facilities like NASA Ames Research Center and European Astronaut Centre, and complemented terrestrial analogs such as Mars Desert Research Station and Biosphere 2. The mission required coordination with launch vehicles like Soyuz-FG and ground support from centers including Baikonur Cosmodrome operations and logistics from contractors like RSC Energia.
While aboard the ISS, Kornienko conducted experiments in areas including human physiology, radiation biology, plant biology, and materials science, collaborating with international principal investigators from NASA, ESA, JAXA, CNES, and research institutions such as University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Stanford University, Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research, and Purdue University. Studies involved equipment and payloads like the Human Research Facility, Marangoni convection investigations, crystallography suites used by teams at Brookhaven National Laboratory and Argonne National Laboratory, and Earth observation using instruments akin to those developed by NASA Goddard Space Flight Center and NOAA. Research outcomes contributed to planning by bodies such as International Academy of Astronautics and design inputs for future platforms proposed by Blue Origin, SpaceX, and national agencies.
For his service Kornienko received distinctions bestowed by Russian institutions comparable to honors awarded to cosmonauts from bodies like Roscosmos and the Ministry of Defence (Russian Federation), and recognition from international partners including commendations often exchanged among crews from NASA, ESA, and JAXA. He has been associated with veteran networks and alumni groups connected to the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center and participates in outreach related to programs at institutions such as the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology and public events alongside figures from organizations like the Russian Academy of Sciences.
Category:Russian cosmonauts Category:People from Altai Krai Category:1960 births Category:Living people