Soyuz T-12 Soyuz T-12 Soyuz T-12 (also known as Salyut 7 EP-4) was the seventh manned spaceflight to the Soviet space station Salyut 7. The name "Soyuz T-12" is also the name of the spacecraft used to launch and land the mission's three-person crew. The mission occurred in July 1984, during the long-duration expedition Salyut 7 EO-3. During the mission, crew member Svetlana Savitskaya became the first woman to ever perform a spacewalk, and the potential Buran Space shuttle pilot, Igor Volk, was given spaceflight experience. Unlike many Soyuz visiting missions, the Soyuz lifeboats were not swapped, and the crew returned to
Sergey Prokopyev (cosmonaut) 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 assigned as the backup commander for Soyuz TMA-18M and Soyuz MS-07. On June 6, 2018, Prokopyev commanded the Soyuz MS-09, alongside flight engineers Alexander Gerst, and Serena Auñón-Chancellor from the Baikonur