Sergei Valeryevich Prokopyev

Sergei Prokopiev
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
Soyuz MS-09 (2018) ISS expedition 56 ISS expedition 57

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

Commons : Sergei Prokopjew  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Spacefacts.de: Short biography