Soyuz MS-12

Soyuz MS-12 was a Soyuz spaceflight which launched on 14 March 2019, carrying three members of the Expedition 59 crew to the International Space Station.[6] The mission ended on 3 October 2019, when Soyuz-MS-12 (carrying Ovchinin, Hague, and spaceflight participant Hazza Al Mansouri) successfully landed.

Soyuz MS-12
The launch of Soyuz MS-12
OperatorRoscosmos
COSPAR ID2019-013A
SATCAT no.44069
Mission duration202d 15h 46m
Distance travelled86.1 million miles.[1]
Orbits completed3,248 [2]
Spacecraft properties
SpacecraftSoyuz Spacecraft
Spacecraft typeSoyuz-MS 11F747
ManufacturerRKK Energia
Crew
Crew size3
MembersAleksey Ovchinin
Nick Hague
LaunchingChristina Koch
LandingHazza Al Mansouri
CallsignБурлак/Burlak[3]
Start of mission
Launch date14 March 2019, 19:14:08 UTC [4][5]
RocketSoyuz-FG
Launch siteBaikonur Pad 1/5
End of mission
Landing date3 October 2019, 10:59 UTC [2]
Landing site47°24'04.44"N, 69°34'14.1"E[2]
Orbital parameters
Reference systemGeocentric
RegimeLow Earth
Inclination51.6°[5]
Docking with ISS
Docking portRassvet nadir
Docking date15 March 2019, 01:01 UTC[2]
Undocking date03 October 2019, 07:37 UTC [2]
Time docked202d 6h 36m

(l-r) Hague, Ovchinin and Koch
Soyuz programme
(Crewed missions)
 

Crew

Position Launching Crew member Landing Crew member
Commander Aleksey Ovchinin, RSA
Expedition 59
Third[lower-alpha 1] spaceflight
Flight Engineer 1 Nick Hague, NASA
Expedition 59
Second[lower-alpha 1] spaceflight
Flight Engineer 2/Spaceflight Participant Christina Koch, NASA
Expedition 59
First spaceflight
Hazza Al Mansouri, MBRSC
First spaceflight

[7] [8] [9]

Backup crew

Position Crew member
Commander Aleksandr Skvortsov, RSA
Flight Engineer 1 Luca Parmitano, ESA
Flight Engineer 2 Andrew R. Morgan, NASA

Original crew

Position Launching Crew member Landing Crew member
Commander Oleg Skripochka, RSA
Expedition 59
Third spaceflight
Flight Engineer 1 Christina Koch, NASA
Expedition 59
First spaceflight
Spaceflight Participant Hazza Al Mansouri, MBRSC
First spaceflight
N/A

Original backup crew

Position Crew member
Commander Andrei Borisenko, RSA
Flight Engineer 1 Jessica Meir, NASA
Flight Engineer 2 Sultan Al Neyadi

Soyuz MS-12 was scheduled to be the debut flight for Hazza Al Mansouri or Sultan Al Neyadi, the first two astronauts from the United Arab Emirates, but this was delayed to flight Soyuz MS-15 following the Soyuz MS-10 mission failure.[10]

Notes

  1. Counting the aborted flight of Soyuz MS-10, even though this did not quite cross the Kármán line. This matches NASA's count, though RSA follows the Kármán line definition.[6]

References

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