Dmitriy Aleksandrovich Petelin Status: Active 7/10/1983 – Nationality: Russian Type: Government Agency: Russian Federal Space Agency (ROSCOSMOS) Selected as astronaut in 2012. By the decision of the Interdepartmental Commission for the Selection of Cosmonauts, he was approved as Flight Engineer-2 of the backup crew of the Soyuz MS-18 and, accordingly, of the Soyuz MS-19 prime crew.