Dmitry Aleksandrovich Petelin (; born July 10, 1983) is a Russian

cosmonaut An astronaut (from the Ancient Greek (), meaning 'star', and (), meaning 'sailor') is a person trained, equipped, and deployed by a List of human spaceflight programs, human spaceflight program to serve as a commander or crew member of a spa ...

who was part of the 2012 selection group. He flew to the ISS on September 21, 2022 with

Soyuz MS-22 Soyuz MS-22 was a Russian Soyuz spaceflight to the International Space Station with a crew of three launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome on 21 September 2022. The launch, previously planned for 13 September 2022, was subsequently delayed to 21 Sep ...

, which was damaged while being docked to the station, and returned to Earth on September 27, 2023 with

Soyuz MS-23 Soyuz MS-23 was an uncrewed Russian Soyuz spaceflight that launched from Baikonur on 24 February 2023 to the International Space Station to replace the damaged Soyuz MS-22 spacecraft for landing that NASA astronaut Francisco Rubio and Roscosm ...

after spending a year in space.

Biography

Petelin graduated from the

South Ural State University South Ural State University (SUSU) () in Chelyabinsk is an educational institution in Russia. It is among the top-ten of the Russian universities according to the state rating of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation, ...

in 2006 with a degree in aircraft and helicopter engineering. Following graduation, he worked as an engineer for NIK, LLC. On October 26, 2012, he became a cosmonaut and reported to the

Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center The Yuri A. Gagarin State Scientific Research-and-Testing Cosmonaut Training Center (GCTC; Russian: Центр подготовки космонавтов имени Ю. А. Гагарина) is a Russian training facility responsible for tra ...

. He completed cosmonaut training and was named a test cosmonaut on July 15, 2014. He is married and has one daughter.

External links

Astronaut.ru biography

Roscosmos biography

Living people 1983 births Russian cosmonauts Spacewalkers Crew members of the International Space Station {{Russia-engineer-stub