Sergey Ryazansky
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Sergey Nikolayevich Ryazansky is a Russia
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n cosmonaut
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. He was selected as commander of the IMBP-6 cosmonaut group in 2003, but later transferred to the TsPK Cosmonaut Group. Ryazansky is currently assigned to the Soyuz TMA-10M
Soyuz TMA-10M
Soyuz TMA-10M is a planned 2013 flight to the International Space Station. It will transport three members of the Expedition 37 crew to the International Space Station. TMA-10M will be the 119th flight of a Soyuz spacecraft, the first flight launching in 1967...

/Expedition 37
Expedition 37
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/Expedition 38
Expedition 38
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 mission scheduled for 2013-2014.

Biography

Ryazansky was born in Moscow
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, Soviet Union
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. He attending Moscow State University
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 and graduated as a biochemist in 1996. After college he began working as a researcher at the Institute of Biomedical Problems. He was selected as a research and test cosmonaut in 2003. He completed training in 2005. In 2009 he participated in a 105 day mission as part of phase two of the Mars 500 program. He is currently scheduled to launch to the International Space Station
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 on board the Soyuz TMA-10M
Soyuz TMA-10M
Soyuz TMA-10M is a planned 2013 flight to the International Space Station. It will transport three members of the Expedition 37 crew to the International Space Station. TMA-10M will be the 119th flight of a Soyuz spacecraft, the first flight launching in 1967...

 spacecraft in September 2013 alongside an American astronaut and another Russian cosmonaut. He will serve as a Flight Engineer on Expedition 37
Expedition 37
Expedition 37 is scheduled to be the thirty-seventh expedition to the International Space Station.-Crew:Sources:NASA, ESA-External links:*...

 and Expedition 38
Expedition 38
Expedition 38 is scheduled to be the thirty-eighth expedition to the International Space Station.-Crew:Sources:JAXA, NASA, ESA-External links:*...

before returning to Earth aboard the Soyuz in March 2014. He is divorced with one child.
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