Soyuz MS-12

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Mission dates
Mission: Soyuz MS-12
COSPAR-ID : 2019-013A
Spacecraft: Soyuz 7K-MS ( GRAY index  11F747)
serial number 742
Launcher: Soyuz FG (GRAY index 11A511FG)
Call sign: Бурла́к (" Burlak ")
Crew: 3
Begin: March 14, 2019, 19:14  UTC
Starting place: Baikonur 1/5
Space station: ISS
Docking place: Rasswet
Coupling: March 15, 2019, 01:01 UTC
Decoupling: October 3, 2019, 07:37 UTC 
Duration on the ISS : 202d 6h 36min
Landing: October 3, 2019, 10:59 UTC
Landing place: 150 km ESE of Sheqasghan , 47 ° 24 '  N , 69 ° 34'  E
Flight duration: 202d 15h 45min
Earth orbits: 3248
Team photo
Christina Hammock Koch, Alexei Ovtschinin and Nick Hague
Christina Hammock Koch, Alexei Ovtschinin and Nick Hague
◄ Before / After ►
Soyuz MS-11
(manned) 		Soyuz MS-13
(manned)

Soyuz MS-12 was a flight of the Russian spacecraft Soyuz to the International Space Station . As part of the ISS program, the flight is designated ISS AF-58S. It was the 58th visit by a Soyuz spacecraft to the ISS and the 164th flight in the Soyuz program.

crew

Outward flight

Main crew

It was originally planned that a spaceman from the United Arab Emirates should be on board. The return flight was to take place on the Soyuz MS-10 spacecraft , which would have returned to Earth after being on the ISS for six months. Since Soyuz MS-10 did not make it to the ISS after a false start, there was no possibility of return, so that the first space flight of an astronaut from the Emirates had to be postponed to the Soyuz MS-15 flight .

The cosmonaut Oleg Ivanovich Skripotschka originally planned for this flight was also removed from the crew in favor of a restart of the Soyuz MS-10 space travelers.

Substitute team

Under normal circumstances, the planned crew of Soyuz MS-15 would have acted as substitutes for flight MS-12. Because of the short-term visitor from the Emirates, only two long-term expedition members were planned for MS-15. So the Soyuz MS-11 substitute team was set up again for MS-12 :

All three then flew to the ISS on the subsequent Soyuz MS-13 mission.

Return flight

Mission description

Soyuz MS-12 brought two crew members from ISS Expeditions 59 and 60 (Ovchinin and Hague) and one for Expeditions 59 to 61 (Koch) to the space station. The ship docked on schedule in “express mode”, that is, after six hours and four orbits around the earth , at the Rasswet module of the ISS.

After a stay of over 202 days, the spaceship disconnected from the station on October 3, 2019. Instead of Christina Koch, who also took part in ISS expedition 61 and thus set a new record for the longest stay of a woman in space, Hassa al-Mansuri returned with Soyuz MS-12 after a week in the ISS. The space capsule landed about 150 kilometers east-southeast of Shezqasghan in the Kazakh steppe and toppled on its side. The crew could be safely rescued.

gallery

  • The rollout of the rocket on March 12, 2019

  • The start on March 14th

  • The spaceship shortly before docking on March 15th

  • Soyuz MS-12 from Cupola seen from

  • The capsule with parachute right after landing on October 3rd

  • The crew with the helpers shortly after landing

See also

Web links

Commons : Soyuz MS-12  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ James Langton: Sheikh Mohammed: First UAE astronaut is heading to the stars next year. The National, June 20, 2018, accessed June 25, 2018 .
  2. ^ Arabian Business: Revealed: the first Emirati astronauts to go into space. September 3, 2018, accessed on September 4, 2018 (English): "One of them will be joining a crew of Russian commander and an American astronaut in Soyuz MS-12 spaceflight which is planned to launch to ISS in April 2019"
  3. ↑ TASS: UAE astronaut not to fly to ISS in April after accident with Soyuz MS-10. October 14, 2018, accessed October 13, 2018 .