Sergey Prokopyev

Quick Facts

Full Name	Sergey Prokopyev
Occupation	Astronaut
Date Of Birth	Feb 19, 1975(1975-02-19)
Age	49
Birthplace	Yekaterinburg
Country	Russia
Birth City	Sverdlovsk Oblast
Horoscope	Aquarius

Sergey Prokopyev Biography

Sergey Prokopyev is one of the most popular and richest Astronaut who was born on February 19, 1975 in Yekaterinburg, Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia. Sergei Valeriyevich Prokopyev (Russian: Sergei Valer’evich PROCOP’EV , born on 19th February, 1975) is a Russian Cosmonaut. On June 6, 2018, the cosmonaut launched his first space flight on board Soyuz MS-09 and spent 196 days in space as a flight engineer for Expedition 56/57.

He worked as a the backup flight engineer in the case of Soyuz TMA-18M and ISS EP-18 and ISS EP-18, preparing for a brief eight-day time on the ISS which was then flown by KazCosmos Cosmonaut Aidyn Aimbetov. Contrary to many backup assignments the assignment to TMA-18M was not a path to an earlier prime crew assignment as a result of TMA-18M’s launch on TMA-18M 2 September 2016, Prokopyev was not able to be transferred onto the prime crew immediately.

Following the departure of Soyuz MS-08 on 4 October 2018, Prokopyev, Gerst and Aunon-Chancellor transferred over to Expedition 57, they were scheduled to be joined by Russian cosmonaut Aleksey Ovchinin and American astronaut Nick Hague on 11 October, although the flight was aborted during launch cancelling their arrival. In order to avoid de-crewing the space station, the landing of MS-09 was delayed from 11 December to 20 December, while the launch of Soyuz MS-11 was advanced from 20 December to 3 December, giving the two spacecraft and their six crew members a 17 day hand-over period. Prokopyev and his two crew mates worked together as a crew of three until 3 December 2018, when Soyuz MS-11 carrying Russian cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko, CSA astronaut David Saint- Jacques and NASA astronaut Anne McClain. During his final days on the ISS on 11 December 2018, he and Kononenko preformed a spacewalk to inspect the hole on Soyuz MS-09, they took imagines and applied a thermal blanket to the damaged area on the Soyuz’s “orbital module”, towards the end of the excision the two also retrieved some science experiments from the outside of the station.

The trio launched on Soyuz MS-09 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome on 6 June 2018 and spent approximately two days free flying in Low Earth orbit before the rendezvoused and docked to the ISS on 8 June, officially joined the Expedition 56 alongside American astronauts Andrew Feustel and Richard Arnold as well as Russian cosmonaut Oleg Artemyev. He performed his first Spacewalk alongside Artemyev on 15 August, the two spent 7 hours and 46 minutes working outside the station where they installed a Roscosmos-DLR experiment for observing animal migration, called ICARUS onto the outside of the station and manually deployed four CubeSat into orbit. On 29 August an air leak was observed inside the station, this was later discovered to be caused by a hole aboard Soyuz MS-09, Prokopyev’s spacecraft.

Following his graduation , he became part of the specialization and enhancement group of the ISS Russian Orbital Segment and Soyuz’s TMA-M spacecraft. He was in this post until June 2015 when he was transferred to an additional crew.

Sergey Prokopyev Net Worth

Sergey Prokopyev is one of the richest Astronaut from Russia. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Sergey Prokopyev 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Prokopyev has been married for a while to Ekaterina Prokopyeva (nee Negreyeva) and welcomed the couple’s daughter Anna in the 27th of August, 1997. Their their son Timofei who was born on the 23rd of February 2010.

In October 2010, Prokopyev was chosen as Cosmonaut by Roscosmos and he started the cosmonaut’s training in February 2011. He graduated and earned the title as a “test cosmonaut” in August 2012.

He, Gerst and Aunon-Chancellor returned to Earth on 20 December 2018, ending Prokopyev’s first spaceflight after 196 days in space.

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Sergey Ranked on the list of most popular Astronaut. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Russia. Sergey Prokopyev celebrates birthday on February 19 of every year.