Cosmonaut S. Prokopyev Preflight Jacket Soyuz MS-22 Expedition 68

Cosmonaut S. Prokopyev Preflight Jacket Soyuz MS-22 Expedition 68

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Beautiful black and grey color combination jacket on zipper. Soyuz on launch depicted on the font of the jacket, International Space station on the back. On the sleeves attached printed patches of Soyuz MS-22 emblem, flag and nametag. Hook-and-loop fastener attached to the back of each patch.

Sergey Prokopyev is a Russian cosmonaut. On June 6, 2018, he launched on his first flight into space aboard Soyuz MS-09  and spent 197 days in space as a flight engineer on Expedition 56/57. On September 21, 2022, he launched aboard Soyuz MS-22  and returned onboard Soyuz MS-23 on September 27, 2023.

He was the ISS commander with Russian cosmonaut Dmitry Petelin and NASA astronaut Francisco Rubio. Prokopyev was part of Expedition 67-68-69. His second mission was planned to last around 6 months with a return to Earth in early 2023. However, damage to the spacecraft extended the mission, and Prokopyev returned to Earth on 27 September 2023 with Soyuz MS-23 after spending a year in space.

Information about Soyuz MS-22 mission

Soyuz MS-22 is a Russian Soyuz spaceflight to ISS with a crew of three launched from Baikonur on 21 September 2022.

The launch was previously planned for 13 September 2022, but in the provisional flight manifest prepared by Roscosmos by the end of Summer 2020, the launch of Soyuz MS-22 was delayed to 21 September 2022, for a mission length of 188 days.

The mission was planned before 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, however, continued international collaboration around the ISS has been thrown into doubt by the ongoing event and related sanctions on Russia.

The original three-Russian member crew was named in May 2021. American astronaut Fransicso Rubio replaced Anna Kikina as a part of the Soyuz-Dragon crew swap system of keeping at least one NASA astronaut and one Roscosmos cosmonaut on each of the crew rotation missions. This ensures both countries have a presence on the station, and the ability to maintain their separate systems if either Soyuz or commercial crew vehicles are grounded for an extended period.

The Soyuz capsule is named in honor of Konstantin Tsiolkovsky.

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