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{{Short description|Russian cosmonaut (born 1958)}}{{Family name hatnote|Ivanovich|Padalka|lang=East Slavic}}{{Infobox astronaut
| name          = Gennady Padalka
| native_name   = Геннадий Падалка
| image         = Gennady Padalka at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center before the Expedition 43 flight (201503140006HQ) (cropped).jpg
| caption       = Padalka at the [[Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center]] in March 2015
| type          = [[Roscosmos cosmonaut]]
| birth_name    = Gennady Ivanovich Padalka
| birth_date    = {{Birth date and age|1958|6|21|df=y}}
| birth_place   = [[Krasnodar]], [[Russian SFSR]], USSR
| occupation    = [[aviator|Pilot]]
| rank          = [[Colonel]], [[Russian Air Force]]
| status        = Retired
| selection     = [[List of astronauts by selection#1989|TsPK-10 Cosmonaut Group (1989)]]
| time          = 878 days, 11 hours, and 29 minutes
| evas          = 10
| eva_time      = 38{{nbsp}}hours and 40{{nbsp}}minutes
| alma_mater    = [[Yeysk Military Aviation College]]
| insignia      = [[File:Soyuz TM-28 patch.jpg|50px]] [[File:Soyuz TMA-4 Patch.png|45px]] [[File:Expedition 9 insignia.svg|40px]] [[File:ISS Expedition 19 Patch.svg|45px]] [[File:ISS Expedition 20 Patch.svg|45px]] [[File:ISS Expedition 31 Patch.png|45px]] [[File:ISS Expedition 32 Patch.svg|45px]] [[File:ISS Expedition 43 Patch.svg|45px]] [[File:ISS Expedition 44 Patch.svg|50px]]
| awards         = {{Unbulleted indent list
   | [[Hero of the Russian Federation]]
   | [[Pilot-Cosmonaut of the Russian Federation]]
   | [[Order of Merit for the Fatherland]]
   }}
| retirement     = 28 April 2017
| missions       = {{Unbulleted indent list
   | [[Soyuz TM-28]] ([[Mir EO-26]])
   | [[Soyuz TMA-4]] ([[Expedition 9]])
   | [[Soyuz TMA-14]] ([[Expedition 19]]/[[Expedition 20|20]])
   | [[Soyuz TMA-04M]] ([[Expedition 31]]/[[Expedition 32|32]])
   | [[Soyuz TMA-16M]] ([[Expedition 43]]/[[Expedition 44|44]])
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'''Gennady Ivanovich Padalka''' ({{langx|ru|Гeнна́дий Ива́нович Па́далка}}; born 21 June 1958 in [[Krasnodar]], [[Soviet Union]]) is a [[Russian Air Force]] officer and [[Roscosmos cosmonaut]]. Padalka is the only person to have served as commander of the [[International Space Station]] (ISS) four times. He previously held the record for [[List of spaceflight records#Total time in space|the most time spent in space]] at 878 days until [[Oleg Kononenko]] broke this record on February 4, 2024 at 07:30:08 UTC and is currently at 2nd position.<ref name="Госкорпорация Роскосмос">{{Cite web |title=Госкорпорация "Роскосмос" |url=https://t.me/roscosmos_gk/11803 |access-date=2023-12-16 |website=Telegram}}</ref><ref name="ISS Expedition Reports">{{Cite web |title=ISS Expedition Reports |url=http://www.spacefacts.de/english/iss.htm |access-date=2023-12-15 |website=www.spacefacts.de}}</ref><ref name="Voice of America">{{Cite web |date=2023-09-15 |title=One American, Two Russians Blast Off in Russian Spacecraft to International Space Station |url=https://www.voanews.com/a/one-american-two-russians-blast-off-in-russian-spacecraft-to-international-space-station-/7270141.html |access-date=2023-12-15 |website=Voice of America |language=en}}</ref><ref name="Record Breaking">{{Cite news |last=Cheng |first=Kenneth |date=27 March 2015 |title=Breaking Space Records |url=https://www.nytimes.com/live/international-space-station-launch/breaking-space-records |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150405145407/http://www.nytimes.com/live/international-space-station-launch/breaking-space-records/ |archive-date=2015-04-05 |access-date=28 June 2015 |work=New York Times}}</ref><ref name="record">{{Cite news |last=Thompson |first=Curtiss |date=29 June 2015 |title=Russian Cosmonaut Sets Record For Most Time Spent In Space |url=http://www.penny4nasa.org/2015/06/29/russian-cosmonaut-sets-record-for-most-time-spent-in-space/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190828073528/http://www.penny4nasa.org/2015/06/29/russian-cosmonaut-sets-record-for-most-time-spent-in-space/ |archive-date=28 August 2019 |access-date=2 July 2015 |ref=2 |agency=Penny4NASA}}</ref><ref>[https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-34231700 Russian astronaut record-breaker Padalka returns to Earth], BBC News, 12 September 2015</ref> He worked on both ''[[Mir]]'' and the [[International Space Station]].

== Personal life ==
Padalka is married to Irina Anatoliyevna Padalka (Ponomareva). They have three daughters: Yuliya, Yekaterina, and Sonya. He enjoys the [[theater]], [[Parachuting|parachute sport]] and [[Underwater diving|diving]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Gennady Padalka |url=http://www.spaceflight101.com/gennady-padalka.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150318134626/http://www.spaceflight101.com/gennady-padalka.html |archive-date=March 18, 2015 |access-date=September 13, 2015}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=7 July 2015 |title='He's the greatest Obi-Wan': Meet astronaut Gennady Padalka, Earth's longest resident in space |url=http://www.firstpost.com/world/hes-the-greatest-obi-wan-meet-astronaut-gennady-padalka-earths-longest-resident-in-space-2329192.html |access-date=2016-02-28 |website=Firstpost.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Russian Federal Space Agency &#124; |url=http://en.federalspace.ru/1589/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304040733/http://en.federalspace.ru/1589/ |archive-date=2016-03-04 |access-date=2016-02-28 |website=En.federalspace.ru}}</ref><ref name="autogenerated1">{{Cite web |date=11 February 2015 |title=Cosmonaut Bio: Gennady Ivanovich Padalka (03/2009) |url=http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/padalka.html |access-date=2016-02-28 |website=Jsc.nasa.gov}}</ref>

== Education and training ==
Padalka graduated from Yeysk Military Aviation College in 1979. After graduation, he served as a pilot and later a senior pilot in the Russian Air Force, eventually attaining the rank of [[colonel]]. He has logged 1500 flight hours in six types of aircraft as a First Class Pilot in the [[Russian Air Force]]. In addition, he has performed more than 300 parachute jumps as an Instructor of General Parachute Training. Padalka also worked as an engineer-ecologist at the [[UNESCO]] [[International Center of Instruction Systems]] until 1994.<ref name="spacefacts">{{Cite web |title=Cosmonaut Biography: Gennadi Padalka |url=http://www.spacefacts.de/bios/cosmonauts/english/padalka_gennady.htm |access-date=2016-02-28 |website=Spacefacts.de}}</ref> He is an investigator for the [[Advanced Diagnostic Ultrasound in Microgravity]] Project, a US Government funded study investigating strategies for applying diagnostic telemedicine to space.

== Awards ==
Padalka is a recipient of the [[Hero of the Russian Federation|Hero Star of the Russian Federation]] and the title of Russian Federation Test-Cosmonaut.<ref name="autogenerated1" /> He is decorated with Fatherland Service Medal fourth class, Medals of the Russian Federation and also Medal of the International Fund of Cosmonautics support for Service to Cosmonautics. Padalka is a prize winner of the Russian Federation Government in the field of science and technology.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Russian Federal Space Agency &#124; |url=http://en.federalspace.ru/1589/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304040733/http://en.federalspace.ru/1589/ |archive-date=2016-03-04 |access-date=2016-02-28 |publisher=En.federalspace.ru}}</ref>

== Cosmonaut career ==
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Gennady Padalka was selected as a [[cosmonaut]] candidate to start training at the [[Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center]] in 1989. From June 1989 to January 1991, he attended basic space training and in 1991 was qualified as a test-cosmonaut.

=== ''Mir'' Mission ===
On 13 August 1998, Gennady launched with [[Sergei Avdeyev]] aboard [[Soyuz TM-28]] to become the crew of [[Mir EO-26|''Mir'' Expedition 26]], whose primary mission was to make repairs to life support systems and prepare the station for deorbit, which was to take place after [[Mir EO-27|Expedition 27]]. On 8 February 1999 at 11:23 GMT Padalka and Avdeyev undocked from ''Mir'''s -X port in Soyuz TM-28, and redocked at the +X Kvant port at 11:39 GMT, freeing up the front port for the [[Soyuz TM-29]] docking.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Mark Wade |date=March 12, 2001 |title=Soyuz TM-28 |url=http://www.astronautix.com/s/soyuztm-28.html |access-date=April 1, 2023 |website=astronautix.com}}</ref> He returned to Earth on board the Soyuz TM-28 capsule on 28 February 1999. The Soyuz TM-28 undocked from the Kvant rear docking port on 27 February at 22:52 GMT and landed in Kazakhstan on 28 February at 02:14 GMT. Padalka accumulated 198 days and 16 hours of space travel during the mission.

=== ISS Missions ===
[[File:Gennady Padalka Exp9 2.jpg|thumb|Expedition 9 commander Gennady Padalka inside the ''Zvezda'' module of the ISS.]]
From June 1999 to July 2000, Padalka trained for a space flight on a [[Soyuz-TM]] transport vehicle as an [[International Space Station|ISS]] contingency crew commander. From August 2000 to November 2001, he trained for a space flight as the [[Expedition 4]] back-up crew commander.

==== Expedition 9 ====
In March 2002 Padalka was assigned as commander of the ISS [[Expedition 9]] crew. Expedition 9 was launched from the [[Baikonur Cosmodrome]], [[Kazakhstan]] aboard the [[Soyuz TMA-4]] spacecraft, and docked with the ISS on 21 April 2004. Following a week of joint operations and handover briefings, they replaced the [[Expedition 8]] crew who returned to Earth. In a six-month [[tour of duty]] aboard the station Padalka continued ISS science operations, maintained Station systems, and performed four spacewalks. The Expedition 9 mission concluded after undocking and landed back in Kazakhstan on 23 October 2004. In completing this mission, Padalka logged an additional 187 days, 21 minutes and 17 seconds in space, and 15 hours, 45 minutes and 22 seconds of EVA time.

==== Expedition 19/20 ====
[[File:ISS-20 Gennady Padalka in the Pirs Docking Compartment.jpg|thumb|Expedition 20 commander Gennady Padalka inside the ''Pirs'' Docking Compartment of the Space Station with the [[PK-3 Plus (ISS Experiment)|PK-3 Plus laboratory]].]]
Padalka returned to the ISS in 2009 to serve as commander of Expeditions [[Expedition 19|19]] and [[Expedition 20|20]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=NASA |year=2008 |title=NASA Assigns Crews for STS-127 and Expedition 19 Missions |url=http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2008/feb/HQ_08052_Crew_Announcements.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200225044027/https://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2008/feb/HQ_08052_Crew_Announcements.html |archive-date=February 25, 2020 |access-date=February 11, 2008 |publisher=NASA}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=NASA |title=Expedition 20 |url=http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/expeditions/expedition20/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110524222907/http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/expeditions/expedition20/ |archive-date=May 24, 2011 |access-date=June 3, 2010}}</ref> He commanded the [[Soyuz TMA-14]] spacecraft which was launched from Baikonur on 26 March 2009 and docked with the ISS two days later. Padalka also commanded the first six-person [[space station]] crew (Expedition 20), returning to Earth on 11 October 2009.<ref name="Expedition 20">{{Cite web |title=Blogger |url=http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Spaceports/~3/duUBD5Mng5E/soyuz-landing-ok.html |archive-url=https://archive.today/20121203185556/http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Spaceports/~3/duUBD5Mng5E/soyuz-landing-ok.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=December 3, 2012 |access-date=2016-02-28 |website=Feedproxy.google.com}}</ref>

==== Expedition 31/32 ====
In May 2012 Padalka returned to the ISS for a third time. He served as a flight engineer as part of [[Expedition 31]] before graduating to command [[Expedition 32]].<ref name="crew2">{{Cite web |last=NASA HQ |year=2010 |title=NASA And Partners Assign Crews For Upcoming Space Station Missions |url=http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2010/jul/HQ_10-161_New_ISS_Crews.html |access-date=8 July 2010 |publisher=NASA}}</ref>

He launched to the ISS aboard [[Soyuz TMA-04M]] on 15 May 2012, along with fellow crew members [[Sergei Revin]] and [[Joseph M. Acaba|Joseph Acaba]]<ref>{{Cite news |last=Albanesius |first=Chloe |date=15 May 2012 |title=3 Soyuz Astronauts Blast Off for Space Station |url=https://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2404439,00.asp |access-date=15 May 2012 |work=[[PC Magazine]]}}</ref> and arrived at the space station on 17 May at 4:36 [[Coordinated Universal Time|UTC]].<ref>{{Cite news |last=Harwood |first=William |date=17 May 2012 |title=Three-man crew docks at International Space Station |url=http://www.spaceflightnow.com/station/exp31/120517dock/ |access-date=17 May 2012 |work=Spaceflight Now |archive-date=19 June 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120619232333/http://www.spaceflightnow.com/station/exp31/120517dock/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> He, along with Revin and Acaba, returned to Earth on 17 September 2012.{{citation needed|date=December 2020}}

==== Expedition 43/44 ====
Padalka returned to the ISS aboard [[Soyuz TMA-16M]] during [[Expedition 43]] and [[Expedition 44]], along with [[Mikhail Korniyenko]] and [[Scott Kelly (astronaut)|Scott Kelly]]. He landed on Soyuz TMA-16M on 12 September 2015. Padalka set the record for most time in space of anyone in history that stayed until [[Oleg Kononenko]] broke this record on February 4, 2024 at 07:30:08 UTC and is currently at 2nd position.<ref name="Госкорпорация Роскосмос" /><ref name="ISS Expedition Reports" /><ref name="Voice of America" />

=== Retirement ===
In April 2017, it was announced that Padalka had filed his resignation from the Roscosmos cosmonaut corps. Padalka himself explained his decision by the fact that he has only a small chance to join any space mission in the near future. "I had to resign. I am tired of doing nothing. There are no prospects that I will fly [to the International Space Station (ISS)]," he told TASS, explaining his decision.

=== Spacewalks ===
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On 15 September 1998 Padalka performed the first spacewalk of his career during a stay aboard Mir along with Sergei Avdeyev. After donning spacesuits, the PKhO compartment of the [[Mir Core Module]] was depressurized and the spacewalkers entered the dead ''[[Spektr]]'' module at 20:00 GMT. The crew reconnected some cables for the solar panel steering mechanism and closed the hatch a half hour later. The PKhO was then repressurized after a spacewalk which lasted 30 minutes.

On 10 November 1998 Padalka and Avdeyev again ventured out into space. The two made the EVA from the [[Kvant-2]] airlock on Mir. The starting time of the spacewalk was at 19:24 GMT. The two spacewalking cosmonauts installed a meteoroid detector in for the upcoming Leonid shower, and hand-launched the Sputnik-41 amateur-radio mini-satellite. The space walk concluded at 01:18 GMT on 11 November, clocking a total time of 5 hours and 54 minutes.

[[File:Gennady Padalka with Orlan suit.jpg|thumb|Padalka with his Orlan spacesuit in the ''Pirs'' Docking Compartment.]]

Padalka's third spacewalk was performed on 24 June 2004 from the ISS's [[Pirs (ISS module)|''Pirs'' Docking Compartment]]. The spacewalk was cut short due to a spacesuit malfunction of his fellow spacewalking partner, NASA astronaut [[Michael Fincke]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=William Harwood |date=June 24, 2004 |title=Suit problem ends station spacewalk |url=http://spaceflightnow.com/station/exp9/040624spacewalk.html |access-date=June 4, 2010 |publisher=Spaceflight Now}}</ref> After Fincke egressed, within minutes flight controllers noticed a decrease in pressure in his primary oxygen tank. Although the spacewalk was planned for six hours, as a result of the problems it only lasted 14 minutes.

On 30 June 2004 Padalka performed his fourth spacewalk along with astronaut Michael Fincke. The duo successfully repaired a faulty circuit breaker on the space station an hour ahead of schedule.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Tariq Malik |date=July 1, 2004 |title=ISS Spacewalk a Success: Gyroscope Power Restored |url=http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/exp9_walkwrap_040701.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100520034537/http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/exp9_walkwrap_040701.html |archive-date=May 20, 2010 |access-date=June 4, 2010 |publisher=[[SPACE.com]]}}</ref> During their repair job, the two spacewalkers replaced a failed device called a remote power control module (RPCM) that had cut off power to its gyroscope. The spacewalk lasted 5 hours and 40 minutes.

On 3 August 2004 Gennady Padalka and Mike Fincke again left the space station to install communications gear and replace space exposure experiments on the outside of the ''Zvezda'' Service Module.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Tariq Malik |date=August 3, 2004 |title=Third Spacewalk a Breeze for Space Station Crew |url=http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/exp9_eva3_040803.html |access-date=June 4, 2010 |publisher=SPACE.com}}</ref> The spacewalk was conducted from the ''Pirs'' Docking Compartment airlock and commenced when Padalka and Fincke opened the outer hatch of the airlock at 6:58 GMT. During the spacewalk the two spacewalkers removed six obsolete laser reflectors used for docking and replaced four of them with newer versions. The crew also installed two antennas to allow the [[Automated Transfer Vehicle]] (ATV) to communicate with the space station and removed a cable from a faulty television camera. The 4 hour 20 minute excursion out of the ISS marked Padalka's fifth career spacewalk.

Padalka completed his sixth career spacewalk on 3 September 2004 when he and Mike Fincke ventured out into space. The spacewalk took place outside the ''Zvezda'' module. Padalka and Fincke began the spacewalk at 16:43 GMT, after emerging from the ''Pirs'' airlock.<ref>{{Cite web |last=NASA |date=September 3, 2004 |title=International Space Station Status Report #04-50 |url=http://www.nasa.gov/centers/johnson/news/station/2004/iss04-50.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220521052501/https://www.nasa.gov/centers/johnson/news/station/2004/iss04-50.html |archive-date=May 21, 2022 |access-date=June 4, 2010}}</ref> On the ''Zarya'' module, the two spacewalkers replaced a pump control panel that measures the module's coolant levels. They also installed three communications antennas at its aft end of the ''Zvezda'' module. The spacewalk lasted 5 hours and 21 minutes.

[[File:ISS-32 Russian EVA11.jpg|left|thumb|Gennady Padalka participates in a spacewalk to move the Strela-2 cargo boom from the ''Pirs'' docking compartment to the ''Zarya'' module in August 2012.]]

Padalka completed his seventh career spacewalk on 5 June 2009.<ref>{{Cite web |last=William Harwood |date=June 5, 2009 |title=Successful spacewalk ends |url=http://spaceflightnow.com/station/exp20/090605evaends.html |access-date=June 4, 2010 |publisher=Spaceflight Now}}</ref> He and NASA astronaut [[Michael R. Barratt|Michael Barratt]] egressed outside the ISS beginning at 7:52 UTC to install docking system antennas and cabling to accommodate the [[Poisk (ISS module)|Mini Research Module 2]] (MRM-2). The spacewalk began at an hour behind schedule because of higher than expected carbon-dioxide levels in the spacesuits. The spacewalk ended when the two crew members returned to the ''Pirs'' Docking Compartment airlock at 12:46 GMT. The spacewalk lasted 4 hours and 54 minutes.

[[File:ISS-32 Russian EVA 2.jpg|thumb|Gennady Padalka, Expedition 32 commander participates in a session of EVA on 20 August 2012.]]

On 10 June 2009 Gennady Padalka and Michael Barratt entered the transfer compartment in the ''Zvezda'' module.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Robert Block |date=June 10, 2009 |title=Space station crew completes short spacewalk |url=http://blogs.orlandosentinel.com/news_space_thewritestuff/2009/06/space-station-crew-completes-short-spacewalk.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101206154106/http://blogs.orlandosentinel.com/news_space_thewritestuff/2009/06/space-station-crew-completes-short-spacewalk.html |archive-date=December 6, 2010 |access-date=June 4, 2010 |publisher=[[Orlando Sentinel]]}}</ref> The "internal spacewalk" began 10 minutes behind schedule because of initial problems with pressure inside the airlock, which did not fall as fast as expected. While they were not in open space outside the ISS, Padalka and Barratt had to wear space suits in the depressurized compartment. During the 12 minute spacewalk the two crew members moved a docking mechanism to accommodate the MRM-2. The event marked the eighth career spacewalk for Padalka.

On 20 August 2012 Padalka, together with cosmonaut [[Yuri Malenchenko]], participated in his ninth career spacewalk.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Pete Harding |date=20 August 2012 |title=Russian cosmonaut duo complete a highly successful spacewalk on ISS |url=http://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2012/08/russian-cosmonaut-duo-spacewalk-31-iss/ |access-date=4 November 2012 |publisher=NASAspaceflight.com}}</ref> Tasks assigned to the two cosmonauts included hardware relocations, installations, retrievals, and deployments. For the spacewalk, Malenchenko donned an Orlan spacesuit with the blue stripe. The duration of the spacewalk was 5 hours and 51 minutes. The spacewalk was delayed for about an hour due to a small leak between International Space Station modules. The spacewalk started from the ''Pirs'' Docking Compartment Module at 15:37 GMT. The first task for Padalka and Malenchenko was to relocate the Strela-2 boom from the ''Pirs'' module to the forward end of the ''Zarya'' module. The relocation was needed since ''Pirs'' module was to be detached from the Space Station for the arrival of the new Multi-purpose Laboratory Module (MLM) [[Nauka (ISS module)|''Nauka'']], both of which occurred in 2021. The next task completed by Padalka and Malenchenko was to deploy a 21-inch diameter spherical satellite. The two cosmonauts also  retrieved five debris shields from the ''Pirs'' Module, prior to installing them on the ''Zvezda'' Module. They also completed several get-ahead tasks (since they both opted not to take rests during the night passes) as the duo were about an hour ahead of the timeline. They retrieved an external experiment called Biorisk from the ''Pirs'' Module for return to Earth, and  for added stability installed two structural support struts between the ''Pirs'' Module and the EVA ladder. Padalka and Malenchenko then both ingressed the ''Pirs'' Module, prior to closing the hatch and beginning the re-pressurisation procedure, to end a successful spacewalk.

==See also==
*[[List of Heroes of the Russian Federation]]

== References ==
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== External links ==
* [http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/padalka.html NASA bio]
* [http://www.spacefacts.de/bios/cosmonauts/english/padalka_gennady.htm Spacefacts biography of Gennady Padalka]

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