Soyuz MS-13

Soyuz MS-13, also designated ISS flight 59S, was a crewed Soyuz mission launched on 20 July 2019 – the 50th anniversary of the first moon landing[2] carrying three members of the Expedition 60 crew to the International Space Station: a Russian commander, an American and a European flight engineer. Soyuz MS-13 was the 142nd flight of a Soyuz spacecraft. It was at one point the last Soyuz flight contracted by NASA in the expectation that subsequent astronaut transport would be provided by the Commercial Crew Program,[5] but in early 2019 NASA sought to purchase two additional Soyuz seats to provide greater certainty given delays in that program.[6]

Soyuz MS-13
The Soyuz MS-13 approaches the ISS.
Mission typeCrewed mission to ISS
OperatorRoskosmos
COSPAR ID2019-041A
SATCAT no.44437
Mission duration200d 16h 44m
Orbits completed3,216 [1]
Spacecraft properties
SpacecraftSoyuz-MS
Spacecraft typeSoyuz-MS 11F747
ManufacturerRKK Energia
Crew
Crew size3
MembersAleksandr Skvortsov
Luca Parmitano
LaunchingAndrew R. Morgan
LandingChristina Koch
CallsignCliff
Start of mission
Launch date20 July 2019, 16:28:21 UTC [2]
RocketSoyuz-FG
Launch siteBaikonur, Site 1/5
End of mission
Landing date06 February 2020,
09:12:45 UTC [3][1]
Landing siteSteppes of Kazakhstan.
Orbital parameters
Reference systemGeocentric
RegimeLow Earth
Inclination51,6°
Docking with ISS
Docking portZvezda aft
Docking date20 July 2019, 22:47:50 UTC [1]
Undocking date26 August 2019,
03:35 UTC [4]
Time docked36 days, 4 hours and 48 minutes
Docking with ISS
(Relocation)
Docking portPoisk zenith
Docking date26 August 2019, 03:59 UTC [4]
Undocking date06 February 2020,
05:50:28 UTC [1]
Time docked164d 1h 51m

(l-r) Morgan, Skvortsov and Parmitano
Soyuz programme
(Crewed missions)
 

Crew

Position Launching Crew member Landing Crew member
Commander Aleksandr Skvortsov, RSA
Expedition 60/61
Third spaceflight
Flight Engineer 1 Luca Parmitano, ESA
Expedition 60/61
Second spaceflight
Flight Engineer 2 Andrew R. Morgan, NASA
Expedition 60/61/62
First spaceflight
Christina Koch, NASA
Expedition 59/60/61
First spaceflight

[7]


Backup crew

Position Crew member[1]
Commander Sergey Ryzhikov, RSA
Flight Engineer 1 Thomas Marshburn, NASA
Flight Engineer 2 Soichi Noguchi, JAXA

Relocation

The Soyuz crew relocated the MS-13 spacecraft from the aft port of the Zvezda module and performed a manual docking on the Poisk module on 26 August 2019.[4] This cleared the way for Soyuz MS-14 to perform an automatic docking on Zvezda, after a faulty signal amplifier on Poisk caused MS-14's first docking attempt to abort on 24 August 2019.[8] The last time a Soyuz spacecraft was relocated was in August 2015 during the Soyuz TMA-16M mission.[9]

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