Valery Grigoryevich Korzun
Valery Grigoryevich Korzun is a retired Russian Air Force officer and cosmonaut whose two long-duration missions joined the final high-workload years of Mir with the early assembly years of the International . He commanded crews in both station eras and logged more than 381 days in orbit.
- Born
- March 5, 1953
- Died
- N/A
- Birthplace
- Krasny Sulin, Rostov Oblast,Soviet Union
Flights
2
Spacewalks
4
EVA time
22 hours, 19 minutes
In space
381 days, 15 hours, 41 minutes
Bio
Korzun came from Soviet military aviation, trained as a pilot, and entered the cosmonaut corps in 1987. His assignments placed him in the generation of Russian who had to operate aging Mir hardware while also learning the procedures of the new ISS partnership.
His first flight, Soyuz TM-24, launched in 1996 with Aleksandr Kaleri and Claudie André-Deshays. Korzun commanded Mir EO-22, worked through station maintenance and international research operations, and performed work outside Mir.
His second mission launched on STS-111 in 2002 and returned on STS-113 after 5. Korzun commanded the ISS expedition with Peggy Whitson and Sergei Treshchov during a period of station assembly, robotics, research, and early permanent-crew operations.