Mikhail Kornienko recently celebrated his 60th birthday in the comfort of his home planet, as opposed to his 50th and 55th, which were spent in low-Earth orbit. He has been an instrumental figure in modern Russian spaceflight and is a veteran of several expeditions.
Kornienko has celebrated two birthday milestones aboard the ISS
Kornienko was born on 15 April 1960 in Syzran, Kuibyshev - now Samara - Oblast, Russia, and completed his basic military service between 1978 and 1980. Afterwards he spent six years as a militiaman in Moscow, and his evenings between 1981 and 1987 were spent gaining a qualification in mechanical engineering.