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

VINOGRADOV PAVEL VLADIMIROVICH
TEST-COSMONAUT OF THE ‘ENERGIA’ ROCKET SPACE CORPORATION

PERSONAL DATA: Born August 31, 1953, in Magadan, Russia. Hero of the Russian Federation, Pilot-cosmonaut of the Russian Federation, 3rd Class Cosmonaut. Hobbies include game sports, history of aviation and cosmonautics, astronomy.

EDUCATION: In 1977 Vinogradov graduated from the Moscow Aviation Institute, department “Airborne Vehicles" with specialization in booster designing, and in 1980 he received the qualification of computer systems analyst at the department of “Automated Designing Systems”

EXPERIENCE: In 1977 – 1983 Vinogradov specialized in software development for automated interactive designing systems of recoverable vehicles, development of aerodynamics and aerodyne arrangement design models, computer graphics.

In 1983 Vinogradov started working for the Head Design Bureau of RSC “Energia”. He worked on flight procedure verification for “Soyuz TM” and “Buran” vehicles, development of automated crew training systems. Participated in launch preparation of the “Soyuz TM”, “Buran” vehicles and Energia rockets.

Vinogradov joined the Energia cosmonaut corps in May 1992. From October 1992 to February 1994, he completed generic space training at GCTC. From May 1994 to February 1995, he completed advanced test-cosmonaut training.

He has logged 11 hours in L-39 training airplane, and has completed 29 parachute jumps.

From February 20 to September 3, 1995, Vinogradov trained as a flight engineer of the Mir-20 and EuroMir-95 backup crew to fly on the “Soyuz TM” and “Mir” space station.

From October 1995 to August 1996, he trained for spaceflight on the “Soyuz TM” vehicle and the “Mir” space station as a flight engineer under the Mir-22/NASA-3 and “Cassiopeia” programs.

From August 1996 to August 1997, Vinogradov trained as a flight engineer of the Mir-24 prime crew. From August 5, 1997 to February 19, 1998, he performed a 198-day spaceflight onboard the “Soyuz TM” and “Mir” station as the Expedition 24 prime crew flight engineer under the Mir-24/NASA 5, 6 program.

From March 1999 to April 2000, Vinogradov trained for spaceflight as the Mir-28 backup flight engineer.

From June 2000 to December 2000, trained as the Mir-29 flight engineer.

From January 2001 to November 2002, he completed training as test-cosmonaut of the ISS group.

From December 2002 to February 2003, he trained as the flight engineer of the ISS Taxi backup crew 5.

In January 2004 Vinogradov began training as the Expedition-13 crew commander. The mission was launched aboard the Soyuz TMA-8 from Baikonour, Kazakhstan on March 29, 2006, docking with the station on March 31, 2006. During 6-months tour of duty aboard the International Space Station, in addition to station maintenance and science activities, Vinogradov performed two successful spacewalks logging 12 hours and 25 mins of EVA wearing both Russian and U.S. spacesuits. The Expedition 13 mission concluded on September 28, 2006 with a safe landing in the steppes of Kazakhstan.

SEPTEMBER 2006