Background
Dmitriy Aleksandrovich Petelin was born on the 10th of July, 1983 in Kustanay city of the Kazakh SSR (now Kostanay, Kazakhstan).
Dmitriy Aleksandrovich Petelin was born on the 10th of July, 1983 in Kustanay city of the Kazakh SSR (now Kostanay, Kazakhstan).
In 2006 he graduated from South Ural State University on a speciality «Aircraft engineering».
Before enrollment in Cosmonaut Corps he worked at LLC «NIK» as structural engineer of airplane design unit.
On the 8th of October, 2012 by decision of IMC he was recommended to be enlisted for the post of a test cosmonaut candidate of Cosmonaut Corps of the Yuri A. Gagarin State Scientific Research-and-Testing Cosmonaut Training Center. On the 26th of October was appointed to the post of a test cosmonaut candidate of Cosmonaut Corps.