Dmitri Yur'yevich Kondrat'yev Is Blogging From Space

Dmitri Yur'yevich Kondrat'yev Russian: Дмитрий Юрьевич Кондратьев (born May 25, 1969 in Irkutsk, Russia) is a Russian cosmonaut. He is currently assigned as to the ISS long duration Expedition 26 mission as a Flight Engineer and ISS Expedition 27 as the Commander. Kondratyev traveled to space for the first time aboard the Soyuz TMA-20 spacecraft in December 2010.
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Kondratyev is married to Dinara, and they have a son named Vladislav. His parents, Yuri Semyonovich Kondratyev and Valentina Dmitrievna, reside in Alma-Aty, Kazakhstan. His hobbies include computers, karate, economics and fishing.