Cosmonautics. "Altai" (the call sign of the Soyuz MS-09 crew) (2018)

The crew of the Soyuz MS-09 spacecraft is being trained at the Gagarin CPC. The crew commander with the call sign "Altai" is the cosmonaut of Roscosmos Sergey Prokopyev.

The former military pilot is preparing for the first space flight, is training with other crew members (Alexander Gerst, Serena Aunon-Chancellor), tells about the history of the call sign and about his participation in the Victory Parade in 2010, when he piloted the Tu-160 "White Swan" missile carrier over Red Square.