Soyuz TMA-12

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Mission dates
Mission: Soyuz TMA-12
COSPAR-ID : 2008-015A
Spacecraft: Soyuz 7K-STA ( GRAY index  11F732)
serial number 222
Launcher: Soyuz FG (GRAY index 11A511FG)
Call sign: Эридан (" Eridanus ")
Crew: 3
Begin: April 8, 2008, 11:16:39 UTC
Starting place: Baikonur 1/5
Space station: ISS
Coupling: April 10, 2008, 12:57 UTC
Decoupling: October 24, 2008, 0:16 UTC
Duration on the ISS : 196d 11h 19min
Landing: October 24, 2008, 3:37 UTC
Landing place: Kazakhstan (51.00 ° North / 67.17 ° East)
Flight duration: 198d 16h 20min 21s
Team photo
v. l. No. Yi So-yeon, Sergei Volkov, Oleg Kononenko
v. l. No. Yi So-yeon, Sergei Volkov, Oleg Kononenko
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Soyuz TMA-11
(manned) 		Soyuz TMA-13
(manned)

Soyuz TMA-12 is the mission name for the flight of a Russian Soyuz spacecraft to the International Space Station (ISS) . As part of the ISS program, the flight is designated ISS AF-16S. It was the 16th visit by a Soyuz spacecraft to the ISS and the 122nd flight in the Soyuz program.

crew

Starting crew

For a long time a Soyuz team had consisted entirely of newbies again.

Substitute team

Return crew

  • Sergei Alexandrowitsch Wolkow (1st space flight), Commander (Roskosmos / Russia)
  • Oleg Dmitrijewitsch Kononenko (1st space flight), flight engineer (Roskosmos / Russia)
  • Richard Garriott (1st space flight), space tourist ( United States / United Kingdom )United StatesUnited States United KingdomUnited Kingdom 

Mission overview

This mission brought ISS Expedition 17 aboard the International Space Station and replaced the Soyuz TMA-11 spacecraft as a rescue vehicle.

The South Korean Ko San was originally selected for the flight. On March 10, it was announced that Ko San had been replaced by Yi So-yeon. During his training, Ko San had gained access to documents about the Soyuz control, which is not allowed under the regulations for foreign candidates. Thus, in April 2008, the Korean Yi So-yeon flew on board the Soyuz TMA-12 to the International Space Station to carry out scientific experiments there for about eight days.

On July 10, 2008, during a 6 hour and 18 minute space exit by Sergei Volkov and Oleg Kononenko, the spacecraft was inspected from the outside and one of the explosive bolts that cut off the landing module on return before reentry was dismantled for a detailed investigation on Earth . A failure in the separation mechanism has been identified as the likely cause of the Soyuz TMA-10 and TMA-11 ballistic landings . Investigations of the dismantled explosive bolt on earth then confirmed this assumption.

The perfect landing took place as planned on October 24, 2008 3:37 UTC in the Kazakh steppe.

See also

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Crew of the 17th expedition to the ISS confirmed. RIA Novosti, March 19, 2008, accessed March 30, 2009 .
  2. ↑ First Korean woman and not first Korean woman in space? - Surprising change just before space launch. RIA Novosti, March 10, 2008, accessed March 30, 2009 .
  3. ↑ Russia bans Korean "spy" from the space program - "Izvestia". RIA Novosti, March 11, 2009; accessed March 30, 2009 .
  4. ↑ Russian ISS crew removes explosive bolts from Soyuz capsule. heise online, July 11, 2008, accessed on July 11, 2008 .
  5. ↑ Russian Spacewalkers Retrieve Soyuz Pyro Bolt. NASA, July 10, 2008, accessed July 10, 2008 .
  6. ↑ ISS crew and space tourist returned to Earth. RIA Novosti, October 24, 2008; accessed March 30, 2009 .