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Andrei Borisenko was selected as cosmonaut in 2003 after a career in spacecraft flight control and dynamics working on the Russian Mir space station as well as working as flight director at Moscow mission control for both Mir and the International Space Station.
Andrei’s first spaceflight was aboard Soyuz TMA-21 in 2011 to join Expedition 27 with ESA astronaut Paolo Nespoli amongst others. Andrei took over command of the Space Station for Expedition 28.