Kirill Peskov. Kirill Alexandrovich Peskov (; born 1 May 1990) is a Russian cosmonaut who is planned to fly on the SpaceX Crew-10 mission in March 2025. In 2018, he was selected as a cosmonaut of Roscosmos Group 17 from the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center. He has no spaceflight experience. Before joining the cosmonaut corps, he worked as a first officer for Ikar Airlines flying Boeing 757 and 767 aircraft.

Early years, studies and work
Kirill was born on May 1, 1990 in the city of Kyzyl, Tuva Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (now Tuva).

In 2007, he graduated from school No. 14 in Nazarovo, Krasnoyarsk Krai. After graduating from school, he entered the Ulyanovsk Higher Civil Aviation School's speciality Flight Operation of Aircraft department, which he graduated on June 27, 2012, as an engineer with the military rank of "reserve lieutenant".

From September 2012 to July 2013 he worked as a first officer for Nordwind Airlines flying Boeing 757 aircraft based out of Sheremetyevo Airport.

From July 2013, until his selection as a cosmonaut candidate, he worked as a first officer for Ikar Airlines flying Boeing 757 and 767 aircraft based out of Krasnoyarsk International Airport.

Cosmonaut selection and space training
On March 14, 2017, Kirill applied to participate in the new cosmonaut recruitment of the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center. On April 23, 2018, he received approval from the main medical commission. On August 9, 2018, his application was considered at the meeting of the selection commission, and on August 10, 2018, following the results of the interdepartmental commission (IMC), he was appointed as a cosmonaut candidate of the new group 17.

From January 30 to February 1, 2019, as a member of a simulated crew with Alexei Zubritsky and Yevgeny Prokopyev, he participated in training for actions after landing in forest and marshy areas in winter for winter survival training.

From August 26 to August 30, 2019, as a member of the cosmonaut candidate group, he underwent diver training at the Noginsk rescue center of the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations. On August 30, 2019, he successfully passed the exam and qualified as a diver.

In October 2019, as a member of a simulated crew with Konstantin Borisov and Aleksandr Gorbunov, he underwent a full course of water survival training (dry, long and short training) at the base of the universal sea terminal, Imeretinsky, on the Black Sea in the Adler district of Sochi.

On November 25, 2020, he passed the state examination at the end of the general training course for cosmonauts.

On December 2, 2020, by decision of the Interdepartmental Qualification Commission (IMQC), following the meeting at the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center, he received the qualification of a test cosmonaut.

On July 7, 2021, as a member of a simulated crew with Oleg Platonov and Konstantin Borisov, he took part in a two-day training for actions after landing a spacecraft in desert conditions.

Roscosmos Career
In May 2023, information appeared on the website of the Yu. A. Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center that Kirill was being trained as a backup cosmonaut for Aleksandr Gorbunov, a member of the main crew of the American crewed spacecraft Crew Dragon's SpaceX Crew-9 mission, which is scheduled to be launched to the ISS in early August 2024. Kirill was also being trained as a flight engineer for the main crew of the Soyuz MS-27 spacecraft and the ISS Expedition 73. Later, he was selected for SpaceX Crew-10 mission in January 2024 under the Dragon-Soyuz cross-crew flight system to allow the station to be continuously crewed, in case either of the two crewed vehicles run into issues.

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Related articles
Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center
Roscosmos
Roscosmos Cosmonaut Corps

External links
Biography on the page of the Gagarin Cosmonaut Center
Biography on spacefacts.de 
Biography on astronaut.ru

1990 births
Living people
Russian cosmonauts
21st-century Russian people