Roscosmos Cosmonaut Corps


The Cosmonaut Corps is a unit of the Russia's Roscosmos state corporation that selects, trains, and provides cosmonauts as crew members for the Russian Federation and international space missions. It is part of the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center, based at Star City in Moscow Oblast, Russia.

History

The development of Soviet science and technology made it possible, by the end of the 1950s, to consider the issues of crewed space flight. At the beginning of 1959, the President of the USSR Academy of Sciences Mstislav Keldysh held a meeting at which questions about crewed space flight were discussed specifically, right down to "who should fly?". The decision on the selection and training of astronauts for the first space flight on the spacecraft "Vostok" was made in the Resolution of the Central Committee of the Communist Party and the Council of Ministers of the USSR No. 22-10 "On the medical selection of candidates for astronauts", dated January 5, 1959, and in the Resolution Council of Ministers of the USSR No. 569-264 "On the preparation of man for space flights", May 22, 1959.
The selection of candidates for cosmonauts corps was entrusted to the command of the Air Force of the Armed Forces, military doctors and medical flight commissions, which monitored the health of pilots in units and formations, and the training of future cosmonauts was entrusted to the Air Force of the Armed Forces of the USSR. Later, the selection was directly entrusted to a group of specialists from the Central Military Research Aviation Hospital.
The cosmonaut corps was formed on January 11, 1960, by the order of the Commander-in-Chief of the Air Force of the Armed Forces of the USSR, dated March 7, 1960, the first 12 pilots who passed the initial selection were appointed to the post of listener-cosmonauts of the Air Force; The first cosmonaut corps, which included the future first cosmonaut of Yuri Gagarin, consisted of twenty people. On March 23, 1961, Yuri Gagarin was appointed as the commander of the cosmonaut corps.
The first Cosmonauts Corps was military unit No. 26266, which formed with the task of training cosmonauts, and a little later it was transformed into the Cosmonaut Training Center of the Air Force of the Armed Forces.
After the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the Corps became partly civilian and was managed by the Russian Space and Aviation Agency.

Organization

The Cosmonaut Corps is based at the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia, although members may be assigned to other locations based on mission requirements.
The Chief of the Cosmonaut Office is the most senior leadership position for active cosmonauts in the Corps. The Chief serves as head of the Corps and is the principal adviser to the Roscosmos Director-General on cosmonaut training and operations. The first Chief Astronaut was Yuri Gagarin, appointed in 1960. The current Chief is Maksim Kharlamov.

Requirements

In order to enter the cosmonaut corps, a candidate for the role of a space pilot must pass medical and psychological tests, as well as undergo a face-to-face interview. During the Soviet era, in addition, membership in the Communist Party of the Soviet Union was also a prerequisite for joining the cosmonaut corps.
The main current requirements for joining the cosmonaut corps are to be with Russian citizenship, age up to 35 years, have higher education, have knowledge of English, successfully pass medical and psychological tests, and have body weight up to.

List of active cosmonauts

, the corps has 23 "active" cosmonauts consisting of 1 woman and 22 men. All of the current members of the cosmonaut corps were selected in 1996 or later.
Missions underlined are in progress. Missions in italics are scheduled and subject to change.
CosmonautMissionsGroup
Oleg ArtemyevSoyuz TMA-12M
Soyuz MS-08
Soyuz MS-21 		2003
Konstantin BorisovSpaceX Crew-7 2018
Nikolai ChubSoyuz MS-24/MS-25 2012
Pyotr DubrovSoyuz MS-18/MS-19
Soyuz MS-29 		2012
Andrey FedyaevSpaceX Crew-6
SpaceX Crew-12 		2012
Aleksandr GorbunovSpaceX Crew-9 2018
Alexander GrebenkinSpaceX Crew-8 2018
Kiviryan HarutyunovichNone, awaiting assignment2021
Anna KikinaSpaceX Crew-5
Soyuz MS-29 		2012
Alexander KolyabinNone, awaiting assignment2021
Oleg KononenkoSoyuz TMA-12
Soyuz TMA-03M
Soyuz TMA-17M
Soyuz MS-11
Soyuz MS-24/MS-25 		1996
Sergey KorsakovSoyuz MS-21 2012
Sergey Kud-SverchkovSoyuz MS-17
Soyuz MS-28 		2010
Sergei MikayevSoyuz MS-28 2018
Aleksey OvchininSoyuz TMA-20M
Soyuz MS-10
Soyuz MS-12
Soyuz MS-26 		2006
Kirill PeskovSpaceX Crew-10 2018
Dmitry PetelinSoyuz MS-22/MS-23 2012
Oleg PlatonovSpaceX Crew-11 2018
Sergey ProkopyevSoyuz MS-09
Soyuz MS-22/MS-23 		2010
Sergey RyzhikovSoyuz MS-02
Soyuz MS-17
Soyuz MS-27 		2006
Sergey TeteryatnikovNone, awaiting assignment2021
Ivan VagnerSoyuz MS-16
Soyuz MS-26 		2010
Alexey ZubritskySoyuz MS-27 2018

List of former cosmonauts (partial)

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Soviet and Russian cosmonauts born outside Russia

All of the locations below were part of the former U.S.S.R. at the time of the cosmonauts' birth.
Azerbaidzhan S.S.R. / Azerbaijan