Soyuz TMA-09M

Mission emblem
Mission dates
Mission:	Soyuz TMA-09M
COSPAR-ID :	2013-025A
Spacecraft:	Soyuz 7K-STMA-Z ( GRAU index  11F747) serial number 709
Launcher:	Soyuz FG (GRAY index 11A511FG)
Call sign:	Олимп (" Olympus ")
Crew:	3
Begin:	May 28, 2013 20:31 UTC
Starting place:	Baikonur 1/5
Space station:	ISS
Docking place:	Rassvet , later Zvezda
Coupling:	May 29, 2013 2:10 UTC
Decoupling:	November 10, 2013, 23:26 UTC
Duration on the ISS :	165d 21h 16min
Landing:	November 11, 2013, 02:49 UTC
Landing place:	147 km SE of Scheskasgan , Kazakhstan 47 ° 19 ′  N , 69 ° 28 ′  E
Flight duration:	166d 06h 18min
Earth orbits:	2581
Apogee :	422 km
Perigee :	408 km
Team photo
FyodorJurtschichin, Karen Nyberg, Luca Parmitano
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Soyuz TMA-08M (manned) Soyuz TMA-10M (manned)

Soyuz TMA-09M 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-35S. It was the 35th visit by a Soyuz spacecraft to the ISS and the 141st flight in the Soyuz program.

crew

Main crew

• Fyodor Nikolajewitsch Yurtschichin (4th space flight), commander, ( Russia / Roscosmos )
• Luca Parmitano (1st space flight), flight engineer, ( Italy / ESA )
• Karen Lujean Nyberg (2nd space flight), flight engineer, ( USA / NASA )

Substitute team

• Mikhail Wladislawowitsch Tjurin (3rd space flight), Commander, (Russia / Roscosmos)
• Richard Alan Mastracchio (4th space flight), flight engineer, (USA / NASA)
• Kōichi Wakata (4th space flight), flight engineer, ( Japan / JAXA )

Mission description

The mission brought three crew members from ISS expeditions 36 and 37 to the International Space Station. The Soyuz spaceship replaced the Soyuz TMA-07M as an escape pod .

Like the Soyuz TMA-08M, this mission also docked with the ISS in less than six hours after take-off. The spaceship moored at the Rasswet mini research module . On November 1, the Soyuz TMA-09M made way for the Soyuz TMA-11M spaceship by disconnecting it from its berth at the Rassvet module and then docking it again at Zvezda's stern.

On November 7th, the Soyuz TMA-11M spacecraft launched and moored at Rassvet. On board was the torch (still without a fire) that was used to light the Olympic flame on February 7, 2014 in Sochi . This was the first time since October 2009 that three Soyuz spaceships were docked with the ISS. After a "torch relay" during a spacewalk the torch of the crew of Soyuz TMA-09M was handed over so that she could be in time brought back to Earth.

On November 10, 2013 at 23:26 UTC Soyuz TMA-09M undocked with Jurtschichin, Parmitano and Nyberg on board. This marked the beginning of Expedition 38 on the ISS with Oleg Kotow as commander. The landing then took place on November 11 at 2:49 UTC 147 km southeast of Scheskasgan "in the middle of nowhere" in the steppe of Kazakhstan .

See also

• List of Soyuz missions
• List of manned space flights

Web links

Commons : Soyuz TMA-09M  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Soyuz TMA-09M at spacefacts.de
• Soyuz TMA-09M on the Russian Space Web
• Soyuz TMA-09M at space.kursknet.ru (English / Russian , archived 2016)
• Soyuz TMA-09M in the Encyclopedia Astronautica (English)
• Soyuz TMA-09M in the NSSDCA Master Catalog (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Позывные экипажей советских / российских космических кораблей. astronaut.ru, June 10, 2012, accessed June 29, 2012 (Russian). 
2. ↑ ^{a b} Планируемые полёты. astronaut.ru, February 11, 2013, accessed February 13, 2013 (Russian). 
3. ^ NASA's Consolidated Launch Schedule. NASA, February 11, 2013, accessed February 13, 2013 . 
4. ↑ Günther Glatzel: ... and coupled. Raumfahrer.net, May 29, 2013, accessed May 30, 2013 . 
5. ↑ Soyuz TMA-09M - Mission Updates. Spaceflight 101, November 11, 2013, archived from the original on September 12, 2014 ; accessed on May 29, 2014 .