Nikolai Chub
Russian cosmonaut who completed a year-long ISS mission.
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Nikolay Aleksandrovich Chub is a Russian cosmonaut selected by Roscosmos in 2012. He flew on Soyuz MS-24 and returned on Soyuz MS-25 after a year-long mission to the International Space Station.
Quick Facts
- Birth name
- Nikolay Aleksandrovich Chub
- Born
- 10 June 1984
- Birthplace
- Novocherkassk, Russian SFSR, USSR
- Current occupation
- Test cosmonaut
- Selection
- TsPK 2012 Cosmonaut Group
- Missions
- Soyuz MS-24/MS-25 (Expedition 69/70/71)
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Biography
Nikolai Chub graduated at the top of his class in 2006 with a degree in management and informatics from the South-Russian State Technical University, also known as the Novocherkassk Polytechnic Institute. He later completed a graduate degree in economics at the same university. Before becoming a cosmonaut, he ran the aerospace company Space Tu, LLC. Chub was chosen as a cosmonaut candidate in 2012 and officially became a test cosmonaut on June 16, 2014.
In 2019, he took part in the European Space Agency’s CAVES training program, which was held across Italy and Slovenia. He served as a backup crew member for the Soyuz MS-12 mission to the International Space Station and was originally assigned to Soyuz MS-17, but American astronaut Kathleen Rubins replaced him. In January 2022, Chub was denied a visa to visit the Johnson Space Center in the United States; after the denial became public, the visa was issued a few days later. He was a backup for Soyuz MS-22, then flew on MS-24 and returned to Earth on MS-25 after spending a year in space.
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