Soyuz TMA-20M

Soyuz TMA-20M was a 2016 Russian Soyuz spaceflight to the International Space Station (ISS).[3] It transported three members of the Expedition 47 crew to the ISS. TMA-20M was the 129th flight of a Soyuz spacecraft. The crew consisted of a Russian commander and flight engineer, as well as an American flight engineer.

Soyuz TMA-20M
Soyuz TMA-20M spacecraft approaches the ISS
OperatorRoskosmos
COSPAR ID2016-018A
SATCAT no.41391
Mission duration172 days 3 hours 47 minutes
Spacecraft properties
Spacecraft typeSoyuz-TMA-M 11F747 No.720[1]
ManufacturerRKK Energia
Crew
Crew size3
MembersAleksey Ovchinin
Oleg Skripochka
Jeffrey N. Williams
CallsignBurlak
Start of mission
Launch dateMarch 18, 2016
21:26:38 UTC
RocketSoyuz-FG
Launch siteBaikonur 1/5
End of mission
Landing dateSeptember 7, 2016
01:13 UTC
Landing siteKazakhstan
Orbital parameters
Reference systemGeocentric
RegimeLow Earth
Docking with ISS
Docking portPoisk zenith
Docking dateMarch 19, 2016
03:09 UTC[2]
Undocking dateSeptember 6, 2016
21:51:30 UTC
Time docked5 months, 2 weeks, 4 days, 18 hours, 42 minutes

(l-r) Williams, Ovchinin and Skripochka
Soyuz programme
(Crewed missions)
 

It was the final Soyuz TMA-M, which was replaced by the upgraded Soyuz-MS in 2016.

Crew

Position[4] Crew Member
Commander Aleksey Ovchinin, RSA
Expedition 47
First spaceflight
Flight Engineer 1 Oleg Skripochka, RSA
Expedition 47
Second spaceflight
Flight Engineer 2 Jeffrey Williams, NASA
Expedition 47
Fourth and last spaceflight

Backup crew

Position[5] Crew Member
Commander Sergey Ryzhikov, RSA
Flight Engineer 1 Andrei Borisenko, RSA
Flight Engineer 2 Shane Kimbrough, NASA

References

  1. "Soyuz-TMA 01M - 20M (7K-STMA, 11F747)". Gunter's Space Page. Retrieved 19 March 2016.
  2. "Launch, Docking Returns International Space Station Crew to Full Strength". NASA. Retrieved 19 March 2016.
  3. "Russian Launch Manifest". Retrieved 13 March 2014.
  4. Планируемые полёты (in Russian). astronaut.ru. Retrieved 13 March 2014.
  5. astronaut.ru (2013). "Орбитальные полёты".
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