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Nikolai Mikhailovich Budarin (Russian: Николай Михайлович Бударин) (born April 29 1953 in Kirya Chuvashia) is a Russian cosmonaut a veteran of three extended space missions aboard the Mir Space Station and the International Space Station. He has also performed eight career spacewalks with a total time of 44 hours.Named a cosmonaut candidate in 1989 Budarin’s first space mission was a long-term assignment aboard the space station Mir in 1995.
