who, at the age of 59, became the oldest space walker in history. Born in Magadan, Russia, on 31 August 1953, Vinogradov graduated from the Moscow Aviation Institute’s Department of Airborne Vehicles, specializing in booster design, then, later, software development for automated interactive designing systems of recoverable spacecraft, development of aircraft aerodynamics and configuration, and computer graphics. After working for nearly a decade at RSC Energia, he was selected as a cosmonaut candidate in 1992.

Vinogradov has made three flights into space. His first launched on 5 August 1997 aboard a Soyuz capsule destined for Mir,and during that 197-day mission he completed five space walks. His second flight blasted off from the Baikonour Cosmodrome on 29 March 2006, aboard Soyuz TM-8, which he commanded; that craft docked with the International Space Station, where he joined the Expedition 13 crew for a 182-day stay in space, during which he helped host two NASA space shuttle crews and made his sixth space walk. His latest flight occurred on 12 May 2013, when he assumed command of the ISS and made his seventh and most historic EVA, which placed him in the record books, replacing Story Musgrave (who was 58 when he helped fix the Hubble Space Telescope in 1993) as the world’s oldest space walker.