Svetlana Savitskaya is also a member of the Coordination council presidium of the National Patriotic Union. Savitskaya was one of five cosmonauts selected to raise the Russian flag at the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics opening ceremony. The asteroid 4118 Sveta is named after her. Svetlana Savitskaya Svetlana Yevgenyevna Savitskaya (; born 8 August 1948) is a retired Soviet aviator and cosmonaut who flew aboard Soyuz T-7 in 1982, becoming the second woman in space. On her 1984 mission she became the first woman to fly to space twice, and the first woman to perform a spacewalk. She set several FAI world records
Sergey Prokopyev (cosmonaut) Cosmodrome. It successfully docked at the International Space Station on June 8, 2018, bringing the Expedition 56 crew up to six. Prokopyev is married and has a daughter and a son. Sergey Prokopyev (cosmonaut) Sergei Valeriyevich Prokopyev (, born 19 February 1975) is a Russian cosmonaut. He is the commander of Soyuz MS-09, and flight engineer of Expedition 56/57 to the International space station. Until October 2010, when Prokopyev was selected as a test-cosmonaut candidate of the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center Cosmonaut Office, he was a Major and Commander of a Tu-160-squadron. He finished training in August 2012. He was