Nikolai Budarin
Nikolai Mikhailovich Budarin (Russian: Николай Михайлович Бударин; born 29 April 1953) is a Russian cosmonaut, a veteran of three extended space missions aboard the Mir Space Station and the International Space Station.
Budarin earned a mechanical engineering degre from the Ordzhonikidze Moscow Aviation Institute in 1979 and has worked for the Energia program since 1976. 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 in 2002 and 2003.
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