Gennady Padalka

Gennady Ivanovich Padalka 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.

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1958  Wikimedia, Wikidata
Gennady Ivanovich Padalka
astronaut, military personnel, aircraft pilot, 

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  Soyuz TM-28 ⓘ
  1998 Russian crewed spaceflight to the ISS

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  Soyuz TMA-04M ⓘ
  2012 Russian crewed spaceflight to the ISS

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  Soyuz TMA-14 ⓘ
  2009 Russian crewed spaceflight to the ISS

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  Soyuz TMA-16M ⓘ
  2015 Russian crewed spaceflight to the ISS

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  Soyuz TMA-4 ⓘ
  Russian space exploration mission

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  Expedition 9 ⓘ
  expedition to the International Space Station

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  Expedition 19 ⓘ
  expedition to the International Space Station

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  Expedition 20 ⓘ
  expedition to the International Space Station

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  Expedition 31 ⓘ
  expedition to the International Space Station

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  Expedition 32 ⓘ
  expedition to the International Space Station

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  Expedition 43 ⓘ
  43rd expedition to the International Space Station

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  Expedition 44 ⓘ
  44th expedition to the International Space Station

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1958 Gennady Padalka

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2004 Expedition 9

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2009 Expedition 19

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2009 Expedition 20

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2012 Expedition 31

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2012 Expedition 32

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2015 Expedition 43

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2015 Expedition 44

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Expedition 31 crew portrait

Gennady Padalka at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center before the Expedition 43 flight (201503140006HQ)

Геннадий Падалка (14-07-2011)

Gennady Padalka at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center before the Expedition 43 flight (201503140006HQ) (cropped)

Padalka Fincke ISS ultrasound

Padalka

Gennady Padalka crop

Soyuz TMA-4 crew at Johnson Space Center

ISS Expedition 9 crew

Soyuz TMA-4 Crew

Type	Subtype	Date	Description	Notes	Source
class	orbit		Soyuz TM-28	Gennady Padalka, Ivan Bella, Sergey Avdeyev, Soyuz-TM, Yuri Baturin, human spaceflight,	Wikidata
class	orbit		Soyuz TMA-04M	Gennady Padalka, Joseph M. Acaba, Sergey Revin, Soyuz TMA-M, human spaceflight,	Wikidata
class	orbit		Soyuz TMA-14	Charles Simonyi, Gennady Padalka, Guy Laliberté, Michael Barratt, Soyuz-TMA, human spaceflight,	Wikidata
class	orbit		Soyuz TMA-16M	Andreas Mogensen, Aydyn Aimbetov, Gennady Padalka, Mikhail Korniyenko, Scott Kelly, Soyuz TMA-M, human spaceflight,	Wikidata
class	orbit		Soyuz TMA-4	André Kuipers, Gennady Padalka, Michael Fincke, Soyuz-TMA, Yuri Shargin, human spaceflight,	Wikidata
class	spaceflight	2004	Expedition 9	Gennady Padalka, Michael Fincke, expedition to the International Space Station,	Wikidata
class	spaceflight	2009	Expedition 19	Gennady Padalka, Koichi Wakata, Michael Barratt, expedition to the International Space Station,	Wikidata
class	spaceflight	2009	Expedition 20	Frank De Winne, Gennady Padalka, Koichi Wakata, Michael Barratt, Nicole Stott, Robert Thirsk, Roman Romanenko, Timothy Kopra, expedition to the International Space Station,	Wikidata
class	spaceflight	2012	Expedition 31	André Kuipers, Donald Pettit, Gennady Padalka, Joseph M. Acaba, Oleg Kononenko, Sergey Revin, expedition to the International Space Station,	Wikidata
class	spaceflight	2012	Expedition 32	Akihiko Hoshide, Gennady Padalka, Joseph M. Acaba, Sergey Revin, Sunita Williams, Yuri Malenchenko, expedition to the International Space Station,	Wikidata
class	spaceflight	2015	Expedition 43	Anton Shkaplerov, Gennady Padalka, Mikhail Korniyenko, Samantha Cristoforetti, Scott Kelly, Terry W. Virts, expedition to the International Space Station,	Wikidata
class	spaceflight	2015	Expedition 44	Gennady Padalka, Kimiya Yui, Kjell Lindgren, Mikhail Korniyenko, Oleg Kononenko, Scott Kelly, expedition to the International Space Station,	Wikidata
incident	incident		[[1]]		Wikidata
commons	image		Expedition 31 crew portrait		Commons
commons	image		Gennady Padalka at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center before the Expedition 43 flight (201503140006HQ)		Commons
commons	image		Геннадий Падалка (14-07-2011)		Commons
commons	image		Gennady Padalka at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center before the Expedition 43 flight (201503140006HQ) (cropped)		Commons
commons	image		Padalka Fincke ISS ultrasound		Commons
commons	image		Padalka		Commons
commons	image		Gennady Padalka crop		Commons
commons	image		Soyuz TMA-4 crew at Johnson Space Center		Commons
commons	image		ISS Expedition 9 crew		Commons
commons	image		Soyuz TMA-4 Crew		Commons