Anton Nikolayevich Shkaplerov
Anton Nikolaevich Shkaplerov born February 20, 1972 in Sevastopol. Shkaplerov completed Yak-52 flight training at the Sevastopol Aviation Club in 1989. After graduation from Sevastopol High School in 1989, he entered the Kachinsk Air Force Pilot School graduating in 1994 as pilot-engineer. In 1997 he graduated from the N. E. Zukovskiy Air Force Engineering. In May 2003 Shkaplerov was selected as a test-cosmonaut candidate of the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center Cosmonaut Office. From April?October 2007, Shkaplerov served as Director of Operations, Russian Space Agency, stationed at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. Anton was assigned as the back-up commander for Expedition 22.
Spaceflights:
No. Mission Position Time Duration
1 Soyuz TMA-22 / ISS-29 / ISS-30 Commander 14.11.2011 - 27.04.2012 165d 07h 31m
2 Soyuz TMA-15M / ISS-42 / ISS-43 Commander 23.11.2014 - 11.06.2015 199d 16h 42m
Total 365d 00h 13m
