Soyuz MS-13

Mission emblem

Mission dates

Mission:

Soyuz MS-13

Spacecraft:

Soyuz 7K-MS ( GRAY index 11F747)
serial number 746

Launcher:

Soyuz FG (GRAY index 11A511FG)

Call sign:

Утёс (" rock ")

Crew:

3

Begin:

July 20, 2019, 16:28 UTC

Starting place:

Baikonur 1/5

Space station:

ISS

Docking place:

Zvezda , Poisk

Coupling:

July 20, 2019, 10:47 p.m. (UTC)

Decoupling:

February 6, 2020, 05:50 (UTC)

Duration on the ISS :

200d 6h 39min

Landing:

February 6, 2020, 9:12 am (UTC)

Landing place:

146 km ESE of Sheqasghan , Kazakhstan , ( 47 ° 27 ′ N , 69 ° 34 ′ E )

Flight duration:

200d 16h 44min

Earth orbits:

3216

Team photo

Andrew Morgan, Alexander Skworzow and Luca Parmitano

◄ Before / After ►

Soyuz MS-12 (manned)	Soyuz MS-14 (unmanned)
Next manned mission:
	Soyuz MS-15

Soyuz MS-13 was a flight by the Russian Soyuz spacecraft to the International Space Station . As part of the ISS program, the flight is designated ISS AF-59S. It was the 59th visit by a Soyuz spacecraft to the ISS and the 165th flight in the Soyuz program.

The launch took place as planned on July 20, 2019 with a Soyuz-FG rocket from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan . On February 6, 2020, the spaceship landed in the Kazakh steppe . It was the penultimate flight of this missile version, which was decommissioned with the Soyuz MS-15 mission .

crew

Outward flight

Main crew

Alexander Alexandrowitsch Skworzow (3rd space flight), Commander ( Russia / Roscosmos )
Luca Parmitano (2nd space flight), flight engineer ( Italy / ESA )
Andrew Morgan (1st spaceflight), flight engineer ( USA / NASA )

Substitute team

Sergei Nikolajewitsch Ryschikow (2nd space flight), Commander (Russia / Roskosmos)
Thomas Marshburn (3rd spaceflight), flight engineer (USA / NASA)
Sōichi Noguchi (3rd space flight), flight engineer ( Japan / JAXA )

Return flight

Alexander Alexandrovich Skvortsov, commander
Luca Parmitano, board engineer
Christina Hammock Koch , flight engineer (outbound flight with Soyuz MS-12 )

Mission description

The mission brought three crew members from ISS expeditions 60 and 61 to the International Space Station. Andrew Morgan also takes part in Expedition 62 . In his place, Christina Koch , who had arrived with Soyuz MS-12 , returned with Soyuz MS-13. She set a new record for the longest time a woman stayed in space.

Soyuz MS-13 docked as planned in "Express mode", i. H. after six hours and four orbits the earth , at the Russian living and working module Zvezda . On August 26, the ship was moved to the Poisk module to make way for the unmanned Soyuz MS-14 . Previously, an attempt to couple the MS-14 to Posik had failed due to an electronic defect in the course docking system there. Soyuz spaceships cannot be controlled remotely, so an unmanned ship is dependent on the automatic course system. Soyuz MS-13, however, was flown manually by Alexander Skworzow for the parking maneuver. Luca Parmitano and Andrew Morgan accompanied him since Soyuz MS-13 was their common rescue ship. In the event of a disruption, they would have canceled the flight and landed together.

After a 200-day stay, the spaceship disconnected from the station on February 6, 2020, and the ISS Expedition 62 began on the station with Oleg Skripotschka as commander. The space capsule landed about 146 kilometers east-southeast of Shezqasghan in the Kazakh steppe. The crew was safely rescued.