Soyuz MS-02

Mission emblem

Mission dates

Mission:

Soyuz MS-02

Spacecraft:

Soyuz 7K-MS ( GRAY index 11F747)
serial number 732

Launcher:

Soyuz FG (GRAY index 11A511FG)

Call sign:

Фавор (" Tabor ")

Crew:

3

Begin:

October 19, 2016, 08:05 UTC

Starting place:

Baikonur 31/6

Space station:

ISS

Docking place:

Poisk

Coupling:

October 21, 2016, 09:52 UTC

Decoupling:

April 10, 2017, 07:57 UTC

Duration on the ISS :

170 d, 22 h, 5 min

Landing:

April 10, 2017, 11:21 UTC

Landing place:

147 km SE of Sheqasghan , Kazakhstan
47 ° 22 ′ N , 69 ° 37 ′ E

Flight duration:

173 d, 3 h, 16 min

Earth orbits:

2694

Team photo

Shane Kimbrough, Sergei Ryschikow and Andrei Borissenko

◄ Before / After ►

Soyuz MS-01
(manned)

Soyuz MS-03
(manned)

Soyuz MS-02 is the mission name for a flight of the Russian spacecraft Soyuz to the International Space Station . As part of the ISS program, the flight is designated ISS AF-48S. It was the 48th visit of a Soyuz spacecraft to the ISS and the 154th flight in the Soyuz program.

crew

Main crew

Sergei Nikolajewitsch Ryschikow (1st space flight), Commander ( Russia / Roskosmos )
Andrei Iwanowitsch Borissenko (2nd space flight), flight engineer (Russia / Roskosmos)
Robert Shane Kimbrough (2nd space flight), flight engineer ( USA / NASA )

Substitute team

Alexander Alexandrowitsch Missurkin (2nd space flight), Commander (Russia / Roscosmos)
Nikolai Wladimirowitsch Tichonow (1st space flight), flight engineer (Russia / Roscosmos)
Mark Vande Hei (1st spaceflight), flight engineer (USA / NASA)

Mission description

The mission brought three crew members from ISS expeditions 49 and 50 to the International Space Station.

It was the second use of the further developed Soyuz MS spaceship. This differs from the previous version, among other things, in the new course-NA approach and coupling system. In order to be able to extensively test the new systems, the rendezvous with the ISS lasted two days again instead of the usual six hours.

On September 17, 2016, Roskosmos announced that the start would be postponed due to "technical reasons after tests at the Baikonur Cosmodrome". The cause was a short circuit in the re-entry module of the modernized spaceship. The new start date was October 19, 2016.

The undocking finally took place on April 10, 2017 at 7:57 UTC, and ISS Expedition 51 began on the station with Peggy Whitson as commander. The landing took place on the same day at 11:21 UTC 147 km southeast of Scheskasgan in the Kazakh steppe . When the parachute opened at a height of 10.8 km, a component designed to prevent the lines from twisting hit the landing capsule from the outside and hit a weld seam. This created a crack 3.5 cm in length through which some cabin air escaped. The crew were not in danger because they were wearing spacesuits.