Gennady Padalka, Russian colonel, pilot, and astronaut

Gennady Padalka

Russian cosmonaut (born 1958)

Gennady Ivanovich Padalka is a Russian Air Force officer and Roscosmos cosmonaut. Padalka is the only person to have served as commander of the International Space Station (ISS) four times. He previously held the record for the most time spent in space at 878 days until Oleg…