Soyuz TMA-08M

Mission emblem
Mission dates
Mission:	Soyuz TMA-08M
COSPAR-ID :	2013-013A
Spacecraft:	Soyuz 7K-STMA-Z ( GRAY index  11F747) serial number 708
Launcher:	Soyuz FG (GRAY index 11A511FG)
Call sign:	Карат (" carat ")
Crew:	3
Begin:	March 28, 2013, 20:43 UTC
Starting place:	Baikonur 1/5
Space station:	ISS
Docking place:	Poisk
Coupling:	March 29, 2013, 2:28 UTC
Decoupling:	September 10, 2013, 23:37 UTC
Duration on the ISS :	165d 21h 9min
Landing:	September 11, 2013, 2:59 UTC
Landing place:	152 km SE of Scheskasgan , Kazakhstan 47 ° 23 ′  N , 69 ° 39 ′  E
Flight duration:	166d 6h 16min
Team photo
Christopher Cassidy, Pavel Vinogradov, Alexander Missurkin
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Soyuz TMA-07M (manned) Soyuz TMA-09M (manned)

Soyuz TMA-08M 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 is designated ISS AF-34S. It was the 34th visit by a Soyuz spacecraft to the ISS and the 140th flight in the Soyuz program. With a flight time of less than six hours, it was the shortest manned flight to the International Space Station to date.

crew

Main crew

• Pawel Wladimirowitsch Vinogradow (3rd space flight), Commander, ( Russia / Roscosmos )
• Alexander Alexandrowitsch Missurkin (1st space flight), flight engineer, (Russia / Roscosmos)
• Christopher John Cassidy (2nd space flight), flight engineer, ( USA / NASA )

Substitute team

• Oleg Valerjewitsch Kotow (3rd space flight), commander, (Russia / Roscosmos)
• Sergei Nikolajewitsch Rjasanski (1st space flight), flight engineer, (Russia / Roskosmos)
• Michael Scott Hopkins (1st spaceflight), flight engineer, (USA / NASA)

Mission description

The mission brought three crew members from ISS expeditions 35 and 36 to the International Space Station. The Soyuz spaceship replaced the Soyuz TMA-06M as an escape pod .

With a duration of 5 hours and 46 minutes, it was the fastest flight to the ISS to date. d. It usually took two days. This new “short scheme” became possible because the new digital on-board computer of the modernized Soyuz TMA-M spaceship works independently of the control center in Korolev and constant radio contact with the crew is no longer necessary.

On September 10, 2013 at 23:37 UTC Soyuz TMA-08M undocked with Vinogradov, Missurkin and Cassidy on board. This marked the start of Expedition 37 on the ISS with Fyodor Yurtschichin as commander. The landing took place on September 11th at 2:59 UTC 152 km southeast of Scheskasgan at 13 degrees Celsius and a cloudless sky in the steppe of Kazakhstan .

See also

• List of Soyuz missions
• List of manned space flights

Web links

Commons : Soyuz TMA-08M  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Soyuz TMA-08M at spacefacts.de
• Soyuz TMA-08M on the Russian Space Web
• Soyuz TMA-08M at space.kursknet.ru (English / Russian , archived 2016)
• Soyuz TMA-08M in the Encyclopedia Astronautica (English)
• Soyuz TMA-08M in the NSSDCA Master Catalog (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Планируемые полёты. astronaut.ru, March 13, 2012, accessed March 24, 2012 (Russian). 
2. ↑ As fast as before. Three astronauts jet to the ISS space station in record time. Focus Online, March 29, 2013, accessed March 29, 2013 . 
3. ↑ ISS spaceman safely landed in Kazakhstan. Stuttgarter-Nachrichten, September 11, 2013, archived from the original on September 11, 2013 ; Retrieved September 11, 2013 .