Meet Roscosmos Cosmonaut Alexander Grebenkin, Crew-8 Mission Specialist

Roscosmos Cosmonaut Alexander Grebenkin is a mission specialist for NASA’s SpaceX Crew-8 mission. Grebenkin, who graduated from Irkutsk High Military Aviation School, Irkutsk, Russia, majoring in engineering, maintenance, and repair of aircraft radio navigation systems, also is flying on his first mission. He graduated from Moscow Technical University of Communications and Informatics with a degree in radio communications, broadcasting, and television.
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[@wolfie3657]

Its amazing that we went from fighting againat eachother for space to creating such incredible things together

[@maksphoto78]

It has always been so, from Apollo-Soyuz docking mission. USA and Russia (and other countries) built the International Space Station.

[@Rambolambo42]

Look at this much better these country's work together to achieve great thing's. X x

[@ManaBDew]

🎉😂congratulations Cosmonaut : Alexander 👨‍🚀 Ура 🥳 Team earth 🌎!!!

[@coccinella951]

Спасибо / Thank you 🤍

[@hanamichelle]

Doesn't he know English?

[@officialjordanneuman]

They only know basic English terms.

[@hanamichelle]

@@officialjordanneuman How sad. Are you in mission ops?

[@officialjordanneuman]

@@hanamichelle no, but I just studied a lot of stuff with what the cosmonauts usually do to train for spaceflight

[@hanamichelle]

I understand. You don't speak from experience of having been in crew training here at JSC.

[@officialjordanneuman]

@@hanamichelle nope, just research