Background
Andrey Babkin was born in Bryansk in 1969.
Andrey Babkin was born in Bryansk in 1969.
Since April 1997 he worked in RSC Energia as an engineer of the 2nd and then 1st category as a specialist and test for the VKD, deputy and later the chief of the maintenance team in the search and rescue service at the site of the Soyuz TPK, with the expansion of the sphere of activities to investigate the organizational and technological aspects of on-board VKD and search and rescue support for the flights of prospective new-generation transport vehicles. Since October 2007 - the leading scientific member of RSC Energia. April 26, 2010 by decision of the Interdepartmental Commission enlisted in the cosmonaut corps of "Energia" (17th enrollment). Since August 3, 2012 - test -cosmonaut of cosmonaut corps of Roscosmos.