Kodak paper glossy Photo, size  8” x 12” signed by cosmonaut Aleksey Ovchinin ISS Expedition 59, Soyuz MS-12

On the photo cosmonaut Ovchinin conducting medical experiments on treadmill.

Aleksey Nikolayevich Ovchinin is Russian Air Force Major and cosmonaut, who was selected in 2006

Ovchinin launched to space on his first flight as the commander of Soyuz TMA-20M Expedition 47/48(18 March 2016)

He returned to Earth with his crew mates on 7 September 2016 after 172 days on orbit.

On 11 October 2018 Ovchinin and Nick Hague boarded Soyuz MS-10 on the way to the International Space Station to join Expedition 57, but the launch was aborted mid-flight due to a booster failure; the crew landed safely after a ballistic descent. During his MS-10 flight, the Soyuz spacecraft aborted at an altitude of around 50 kilometers (31 miles) and reached an apogee of 93 km (58 mi), just short of the Karman line, before landing 19 minutes and 41 seconds after launch.

Ovchinin launched to the ISS again on 14 March 2019, travelling on Soyu MS-12 with American astronauts Nick Hague and Christina Koch.

The trio joined Expeidtion 59 crew, along with Commander  Oleg Kononenko and Flight Engineers David Saint-Jacques and Anne McClain After the departure of Kononenko, Saint-Jacques and McClain on 24 June 2019, Ovchinin took command of the station for Expedition 60.

In September 2024, he will fly Soyuz MS 26 with Oleg Platonov and Aleksader Gorbunov as a member of expedition 70/71. His return is planned for April 2025.

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