Sergei Valeryevich Prokopyev
Sergei Prokopiev | |
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Country: | Russia |
Organization: | Roscosmos |
Call sign: | Алтай (" Altai ") |
selected on | October 12, 2010 |
Calls: | 1 space flight |
Begin: | June 6, 2018 |
Landing: | 20th December 2018 |
Time in space: | 196d 17h 50min |
EVA inserts: | 2 |
EVA total duration: | 15h 31min |
Space flights | |
Sergei Valerjewitsch Prokopjew ( Russian Сергей Валерьевич Прокопьев ; born February 19, 1975 in Sverdlovsk , Russian SFSR , Soviet Union ) is a Russian cosmonaut .
Activity in the military
As a major (retired in mid-2012), he was commander of a wing of the Tu-160 strategic bomber of the Air Force until he was selected as a cosmonaut .
Activity as a cosmonaut
On October 12, 2010 he was selected as a pilot in the air force and a candidate for the cosmonaut training center , and he completed his basic cosmonaut training on July 31, 2012. On the Soyuz TMA-18M flight , Prokopyev was a substitute for his Kazakh colleague Aidyn Ayymbetov . Then he was in training for a long-term stay on the International Space Station . For the Soyuz MS-07 space flight he was assigned as commander of the reserve crew.
Prokopyev took off for the ISS on June 6, 2018 as commander of the Soyuz MS-09 spacecraft . There he works as a flight engineer for ISS expeditions 56 and 57 . On August 15, 2018, together with his colleague Artemjew , he installed the ICARUS antenna on a multi-hour spacecraft mission on the ISS . The return to earth took place on December 20, 2018.
Private
Prokopyev is married and has two children.
Web links
- Spacefacts.de: Short biography
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SURNAME | Prokopjew, Sergei Valeryevich |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Прокопьев, Сергей Валерьевич (Russian) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Russian cosmonaut |
DATE OF BIRTH | 19th February 1975 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Sverdlovsk , Russian SFSR |