Soyuz MS-06

Mission emblem

Mission dates

Mission:

Soyuz MS-06

Spacecraft:

Soyuz 7K-MS ( GRAY index 11F747)
serial number 736

Launcher:

Soyuz FG (GRAY index 11A511FG)

Call sign:

Альтаир (" Altair ")

Crew:

3

Begin:

September 12, 2017, 21:17 UTC

Starting place:

Baikonur 1/5

Space station:

ISS

Docking place:

Poisk

Coupling:

September 13, 2017, 02:55 UTC

Decoupling:

February 27, 2018, 23:08 UTC

Duration on the ISS :

167d 20h 13min

Landing:

February 28, 2018, 02:31 UTC

Landing place:

146 km SE of Sheqasghan , Kazakhstan
47 ° 21 ′ N , 69 ° 36 ′ E

Flight duration:

168d 05h 14min

Earth orbits:

2617

Team photo

Joseph Acaba, Alexander Missurkin and Mark Vande Hei

◄ Before / After ►

Soyuz MS-05
(manned)

Soyuz MS-07
(manned)

Soyuz MS-06 is a mission name for the flight of the Russian spacecraft Soyuz to the International Space Station . As part of the ISS program, the flight was designated ISS AF-52S. It was the 52nd visit by a Soyuz spacecraft to the ISS and the 158th flight in the Soyuz program.

crew

Main crew

Alexander Alexandrowitsch Missurkin (2nd space flight), Commander ( Russia / Roscosmos )
Mark Thomas Vande Hei (1st spaceflight), flight engineer ( USA / NASA )
Joseph M. Acaba (3rd space flight), flight engineer (USA / NASA)

Substitute team

Anton Nikolajewitsch Schkaplerow (3rd space flight), Commander (Russia / Roscosmos)
Scott Tingle (1st space flight), flight engineer (USA / NASA)
Shannon Walker (2nd space flight), flight engineer (USA / NASA)

Mission description

The mission brought three crew members from ISS expeditions 53 and 54 to the International Space Station. Originally, this space flight would have brought two Russian space travelers to the ISS as participants in the two expeditions. In order to save costs in the ISS operation, Roskosmos deleted a cosmonaut from the mission. This made possible the additional participation of Joseph Acaba. His flight is being financed by RKK Energija as a repayment of debts to Boeing that resulted from the joint operation of Sea Launch .

Soyuz MS-06 docked on schedule in “express mode”, ie after four orbits around the earth, to the Russian ISS module Poisk .

The undocking took place on February 27, 2018 at 23:08 UTC, so the ISS Expedition 55 began on the station with Anton Schkaplerow as commander. The landing took place the next day about 3 ½ hours later in the Kazakh steppe 146 km southeast of Scheskasgan .