page_title: Vladimir Dezhurov
section_title: Expedition 3
hierarchical_section_title: Vladimir Dezhurov / Cosmonaut career / Expedition 3
caption_attribution_description: English: Cosmonaut Vladimir N. Dezhurov, Expedition Three flight engineer, floats through the Pressurized Mating Adapter 2 (PMA-2) on the International Space Station (ISS). A crewmate in the Destiny laboratory captured the image on a digital still camera.
context_page_description: Vladimir Nikolayevich Dezhurov is a Russian former cosmonaut who resides in Star City, Moscow. He is a veteran of two spaceflights, to the Mir and International Space Stations. During his career, Dezhurov also conducted nine spacewalks before his retirement on July 12, 2004.
context_section_description: Dezhurov lived and worked aboard the International Space Station where he served as a member of the Expedition 3 crew. Space Shuttle Discovery carrying Dezhurov and six other crewmembers on STS-105 mission blasted off to space from the Kennedy Space Center (KSC) on August 10, 2001. The shuttle docked with the ISS on 12 August at 18:41 UTC. Dezhurov spent approximately 4 months aboard the station as a flight engineer. During the long duration mission the Expedition 3 crew enjoyed a unique view of the 2001 Leonid meteor storm. At the end of the stay Expedition 3 crewmembers, Dezhurov, NASA astronaut Frank Culbertson and cosmonaut Mikhail Tyurin returned to Earth on board Space Shuttle  Endeavour. Endeavour's STS-108 mission delivered the Expedition 4 crew to the ISS and landed at KSC on December 17, 2001.
caption: Vladimir Dezhurov, Expedition 3 flight engineer, floats through the Pressurized Mating Adapter 2 (PMA-2) on the ISS.
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