Nikolai Budarin

Nikolai Budarin
Николай Бударин
Budarin in 2002
Born	Nikolai Mikhailovich Budarin (1953-04-29) 29 April 1953 (age 71) Kirya, Chuvashia, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Status	Retired
Occupation	Mechanical Engineer
Awards	Hero of the Russian Federation
Space career
Roscosmos cosmonaut
Time in space	444 days, 1 hour, 25 minutes
Selection	NPOE-9 Cosmonaut Group (1989)
Total EVAs	8
Total EVA time	44 hours, 25 minutes
Missions	STS-71/Soyuz TM-21 (Mir EO-19) Soyuz TM-27 (Mir EO-25) STS-113/Soyuz TMA-1 (Expedition 6)
Mission insignia

Nikolai Mikhailovich Budarin (Russian: Николай Михайлович Бударин) (born 29 April 1953 in Kirya, Chuvashia) is a retired Russian cosmonaut, a veteran of three extended space missions aboard the Mir Space Station and the International Space Station. He has also performed eight career spacewalks with a total time of 44 hours.

Named a cosmonaut candidate in 1989, Budarin's first space mission was a long-term assignment aboard the space station Mir in 1995. Since then, he again made extended stays on Mir in 1998 and the International Space Station Expedition 6 from 2002 to 2003.