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Oleg Artemyev was born in Riga the

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capital of Latvia where his military

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officer father was stationed but the

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family soon moved to Kazakhstan - the

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town now known as Baikonur when artemyev

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was a small boy although he lived in the

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place where people were launched into

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space he wanted to be a sailor

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cosmonauts we always thought of

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cosmonauts as the people that we always

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have to go meet and greet it would pull

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us out of the activities that we

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actually enjoyed and they would line us

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up along the road and make us wave

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little flags to greet them after high

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school Artemyev went off to train as a

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sailor but when that didn't work out he

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went to the tallinn Polytechnic

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Institute and graduated into a job as an

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electrician but soon left that to join

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the Soviet army after two years in the

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service he went to Moscow and was

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admitted to the Bauman Technical

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University where he earned a degree in

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low-temperature physics and technology

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that got him a job at the rocket space

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corporation Energia where he worked

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building and testing space vehicles

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including preparing the international

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space station's Zvezda module for launch

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he was selected to start training as a

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cosmonaut in 2003 in 2009 he

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participated in the Mars 500 experiment

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along with future cosmonaut Sergey

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ryazanskiy on his way to preparing for

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his first spaceflight assignment make a

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first step surface of Mars or bring

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something good maybe even see some