Gennady Padalka

Gennady Padalka
Gennady Padalka
Геннадий Падалка
	Padalka at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in March 2015
Born	Gennady Ivanovich Padalka; 21 June 1958; Krasnodar, Russian SFSR, USSR
Status	Retired
Alma mater	Yeysk Military Aviation College
Occupation	Pilot
Awards	Hero of the Russian Federation; Pilot-Cosmonaut of the Russian Federation; Order of Merit for the Fatherland;
	Space career
Roscosmos cosmonaut
Rank	Colonel, Russian Air Force
Time in space	878 days, 11 hours, and 29 minutes
Selection	TsPK-10 Cosmonaut Group (1989)
Total EVAs	10
Total EVA time	38 hours and 40 minutes
Missions	Soyuz TM-28 (Mir EO-26); Soyuz TMA-4 (Expedition 9); Soyuz TMA-14 (Expedition 19/20); Soyuz TMA-04M (Expedition 31/32); Soyuz TMA-16M (Expedition 43/44);
Mission insignia
Retirement	28 April 2017

Gennady Ivanovich Padalka (Russian: Гeнна́дий Ива́нович Па́далка; born 21 June 1958 in Krasnodar, Soviet Union) is a Russian Air Force officer and Roscosmos cosmonaut. Padalka is the only person to have served as commander of the International Space Station (ISS) four times. He previously held the record for the most time spent in space at 878 days until Oleg Kononenko broke this record on February 4, 2024 at 07:30:08 UTC and is currently at 2nd position. He worked on both Mir and the International Space Station.