National Aeronautics and Space Administration Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center Houston, Texas 77058
Biographical Data

Dmitri Yurievich Kondratyev (Colonel, Russian Air Force)
Test-cosmonaut of Yu.A. Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center
COS MONAUT GROUP COMMANDER

PERSONAL DATA: Born May 25, 1969, in Irkutsk. His parents, Yuri Semyonovich Kondratyev and Valentina Dmitrievna, reside in Alma-Aty, Kazakhstan. Dmitry is married to Dinara, and they have a son named Vladislav. His hobbies include computers, karate, and fishing.

EDUCATION: Kondratyev completed Yak-52 flight training at the Alma-Aty Aviation Club in 1986. After graduation from Alma-Aty High School in 1986, he entered the Kachinsk Air Force Pilot School graduating in 1990 as pilot-engineer. In 2000, he graduated from the Moscow State University for Economy, Statistics and Computer Science at the Economic Information Systems Department as an economist. He graduated from the Yury A. Gagarin Air Force Academy in 2004.

EXPERIENCE : After graduation from pilot school he served as a pilot and a senior pilot in the Air Force. He flew 7 different types of aircraft: Yak-52, L-29, L-39, MiG-21, MiG-29, Su-27, and Cessna 172. He is a Class 1 Air Force pilot. He is an Instructor of General Parachute Training, and has performed more than 150 parachute jumps. In March 2007 Kondratyev received his U.S. private pilot license.

Kondratyev was selected as a test-cosmonaut candidate of the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center Cosmonaut Office in December of 1997. January 1998 to March 2000 he attended basic space training. In 2000 Kondratyev was qualified as a test-cosmonaut. He was assigned to the ISS 5 backup crew as Soyuz Commander and ISS flight engineer and successfully completed that training in 2003. Kondratyev was then assigned to the ISS 13 prime crew and trained as ISS flight engineer and Soyuz Commander for one and a half year until crew reassignment named ESA’s astronaut to this long duration mission.

From May 2, 2006 through April 9, 2007, Kondratyev served as Director of Operations, Russian Space Agency, stationed at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas.

He is currently assigned as a back-up Expedition 19 crew member.

MARCH 2008