Soyuz TMA-05M

Mission emblem
Mission dates
Mission:	Soyuz TMA-05M
COSPAR-ID :	2012-037A
Spacecraft:	Soyuz 7K-STMA-Z ( GRAU index  11F747) serial number 706
Launcher:	Soyuz FG (GRAY index 11A511FG)
Call sign:	Агат (" agate ")
Crew:	3
Begin:	July 15, 2012 2:40 UTC
Starting place:	Baikonur 1/5
Space station:	ISS
Docking place:	Rasswet
Coupling:	July 17, 2012, 4:51 UTC
Decoupling:	November 18, 2012, 10:26 PM UTC
Duration on the ISS :	124d 17h 35min
Landing:	November 19, 2012, 1:53 UTC
Landing place:	N of Arkalik , Kazakhstan 51 ° 3 '  N , 67 ° 8'  O
Team photo
Sunita Williams, Yuri Malenchenko, Akihiko Hoshide
◄ Before / After ►
Soyuz TMA-04M (manned) Soyuz TMA-06M (manned)

Soyuz TMA-05M is the mission name for the flight of a Russian Soyuz spacecraft to the International Space Station . As part of the ISS program, the flight is designated ISS AF-31S. It was the 31st visit by a Soyuz spacecraft to the ISS and the 137th flight in the Soyuz program.

crew

Main crew

• Yuri Ivanovich Malenchenko (5th space flight), Commander, ( Russia / Roscosmos )
• Sunita Lyn Williams (2nd space flight), flight engineer, ( USA / NASA )
• Akihiko Hoshide (2nd space flight), flight engineer, ( Japan / JAXA )

Substitute team

• Roman Jurjewitsch Romanenko (2nd space flight), commander, (Russia / Roscosmos)
• Chris Austin Hadfield (3rd Spaceflight), Flight Engineer, ( Canada / CSA )
• Thomas Henry Marshburn (2nd spaceflight), flight engineer, (USA / NASA)

Mission description

The spaceship brought three crew members from ISS expeditions 32 and 33 to the International Space Station. It replaced Soyuz TMA-03M as an escape capsule .

The launch was originally planned for June 1st, but had to be postponed due to the test failure with Soyuz TMA-04M . Soyuz TMA-05M finally took off on July 15, 2012 2:40 UTC from launch pad 1 in Baikonur for the ISS. Two days later, the spaceship docked with the Russian module Rassvet one minute earlier than planned at 4:51 UTC . The landing took place in the early hours of November 19, 2012. It was the first night landing of a Soyuz spaceship since 2006.

See also

• List of Soyuz missions
• List of manned space flights

Web links

Commons : Soyuz TMA-05M  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Soyuz TMA-05M at spacefacts.de
• Soyuz TMA-05M on the Russian Space Web
• Soyuz TMA-05M at space.kursknet.ru (English / Russian , archived 2016)
• Soyuz TMA-05M in the Encyclopedia Astronautica (English)
• Soyuz TMA-05M in the NSSDCA Master Catalog (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ NASA's Consolidated Launch Schedule. NASA, March 22, 2012, accessed March 23, 2012 . 
2. ^ ^{A b} Expedition 32 Crew Expands to Six. NASA , July 17, 2012, accessed September 28, 2014 . 
3. ↑ Планируемые полёты. astronaut.ru, September 17, 2011, accessed October 6, 2011 (Russian). 
4. ↑ Soyuz TMA-05M arrives at ISS restoring the Expedition 32 Crew to Six. Spaceflight101, July 17, 2012, archived from the original on February 12, 2013 ; Retrieved September 17, 2012 . 
5. ↑ Soyuz capsule brings astronauts safely to Earth. In: Welt Online . November 19, 2012. Retrieved November 19, 2012 .