Nikolai Budarin
 Nikolai Budarin
Nikolai Mikhailovich Budarin (born 29 April 1953) is a Russian cosmonaut, a veteran of three extended space missions aboard the Mir Space Station and the International Space Station.
Budarin earned a mechanical engineering degre from the Ordzhonikidze Moscow Aviation Institute in 1979 and has worked for the Energia program since 1976. Named a cosmonaut candidate in 1989, Budarin's first space mission was a long-term assignment aboard the space station Mir in 1995. Since then, he again made extended stays on Mir in 1998 and the International Space Station (expedition 6) in 2002 and 2003.
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