 He made his first spaceflight beginning in April 2020 as a Flight Engineer on Soyuz MS-16 and Expedition 62/63.Vagner was born on 10 July 1985 in the Severoonezhsk village in the Arkhangelsk region of Russia.He attended North-Onega secondary school from 1992 to 2002 before going on to study engineering at Baltic State Technical University.