Nikolai Budarin
Nikolai Budarin | |
|---|---|
| Николай Бударин | |
Budarin in 2002 | |
| Born | Nikolai Mikhailovich Budarin 29 April 1953 |
| Status | Retired |
| Occupation | Mechanical Engineer |
| Awards | Hero of the Russian Federation |
| Space career | |
| Roscosmos cosmonaut | |
Time in space | 444 days, 1 hour, 25 minutes |
| Selection | NPOE-9 Cosmonaut Group (1989) |
Total EVAs | 8 |
Total EVA time | 44 hours, 25 minutes |
| Missions |
|
Mission insignia | |
Nikolai Mikhailovich Budarin (Russian: Николай Михайлович Бударин) (born 29 April 1953 in Kirya, Chuvashia) is a retired Russian cosmonaut, a veteran of three extended space missions aboard the Mir Space Station and the International Space Station. He has also performed eight career spacewalks with a total time of 44 hours.
Named a cosmonaut candidate in 1989, Budarin's first space mission was a long-term assignment aboard the space station Mir in 1995. Since then, he again made extended stays on Mir in 1998 and the International Space Station Expedition 6 from 2002 to 2003.