Oleg Valeriyevich Kotov was born October 27, 1965, in Simferopol, Autonomous Republic of Crimea in Ukraine. He is a member of the ISS Expedition 15, that launched on April 7, 2007 from Baikonur Cosmodrome, aboard Soyuz TMA-10 spacecraft, together with Fyodor Yurchikhin and space tourist Charles Simonyi. At 19:05 GMT on 30 May 2007 Kotov and Yurchikhin began a 5 hour and 25 minute spacewalk, during which they installed protective panels to shield ISS from space debris. Wikipedia
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