Soyuz TMA-13

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Mission dates
Mission: Soyuz TMA-13
COSPAR-ID : 2008-050A
Spacecraft: Soyuz 7K-STA ( GRAY index  11F732)
serial number 223
Launcher: Soyuz FG (GRAY index 11A511FG)
Call sign: Титан (" Titan ")
Crew: 3
Begin: October 12, 2008, 7:01 UTC
Starting place: Baikonur 1/5
Space station: ISS
Coupling: October 14, 2008, 8:26 UTC
Decoupling: April 8, 2009, 03:55 UTC
Duration on the ISS : 175d 20h 31min
Landing: April 8, 2009, 07:16 UTC
Landing place: Kazakhstan, 151 km NE of Sheqasghan
48 ° 34 ′  N , 69 ° 23 ′  E
Flight duration: 178d 0h 15min
Team photo
v. l. No. Richard Garriott, Juri Lontschakow, Michael Fincke
v. l. No. Richard Garriott, Juri Lontschakow, Michael Fincke
◄ Before / After ►
Soyuz TMA-12
(manned) 		Soyuz TMA-14
(manned)

Soyuz TMA-13 is a mission name for the flight of the Russian spacecraft Soyuz to the International Space Station (ISS) . As part of the ISS program, the flight is designated ISS AF-17S. It was the 17th visit by a Soyuz spacecraft to the ISS and the 123rd flight in the Soyuz program.

crew

Starting crew

Until the beginning of May 2008 Salischan Schakirowitsch Scharipow (Roskosmos / Russia) was named as the commander. Because of an illness he left and was replaced by Lonchakov.

Substitute team

Yuri Walentinowitsch Lontschakow (Roskosmos / Russia) was reserve commander until May 2008 , when Sharipov fell ill, Lontschakow slipped into the operational crew.

Return crew

  • Yuri Walentinowitsch Lontschakow (3rd space flight), Commander (Roskosmos / Russia)
  • Michael Fincke (2nd space flight), flight engineer (NASA / USA)
  • Charles Simonyi (2nd space flight) space tourist ( Space Adventures / USA)
Erect the Soyuz launcher in Baikonur

Mission overview

This mission brought two participants in ISS Expedition 18 to the International Space Station and replaced the Soyuz TMA-12 spacecraft as an escape pod. On October 12, 2008 Soyuz TMA-13 ​​took off from the spaceport in Baikonur to the ISS as planned. The space tourist Richard Garriott was on board. Garriott is the son of astronaut Owen Garriott , who was part of the second crew of the American space station Skylab in 1973. Two days later, the spaceship docked fully automatically with the ISS. In addition to the astronauts, there were also some scientific samples for the ISS on board, including 35 tadpoles . In addition, the Immortality Drive was transported to the ISS, a memory chip on which the DNA of several people is stored, including Garriott.

The spaceship served as a rescue shuttle for 175 days. The landing took place on April 8, 2009 in the replacement landing area 150 km northeast of Shezqasghan , because the subsoil of the originally planned area 300 km further northwest was too damp. On board was the spaceflight participant Charles Simonyi, who had started with the Soyuz TMA-14 to the ISS.

The smooth landing of the TMA-13 ​​appears to confirm that the correct conclusions were drawn from the ballistic landings of the TMA-10 and TMA-11 .

See also

Soyuz landing module TMA-13

Web links

Commons : Soyuz TMA-13  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jen Kelly: Space flight dream nears. Herald Sun, November 26, 2007, archived from the original on November 26, 2007 ; Retrieved October 10, 2008 .
  2. ^ Software billionaire books 2nd trip to space. CBC , October 2, 2009; accessed October 2, 2008 .
  3. ↑ Chris Bergin: Soyuz investigation findings backed by nominal Soyuz TMA-13 ​​return. NASASpaceFlight.com, April 8, 2009, accessed April 8, 2009 .