Soyuz TMA-14M

Mission emblem

Mission dates

Mission:

Soyuz TMA-14M

Spacecraft:

Soyuz 7K-STMA-Z ( GRAU index 11F747)
serial number 714

Launcher:

Soyuz FG (GRAY index 11A511FG)

Call sign:

Тарханы (" Tarchany" )

Crew:

3

Begin:

September 25, 2014, 20:25 UTC

Starting place:

Baikonur 1/5

Space station:

ISS

Docking place:

Poisk

Coupling:

September 26, 2014, 2:11 UTC

Decoupling:

March 11, 2015, 10:44 PM UTC

Duration on the ISS :

166d 21h 33min

Landing:

March 12, 2015, 2:07 UTC

Landing place:

145 km SE of Scheskasgan , Kazakhstan
47 ° 21 ' N , 69 ° 32' E

Flight duration:

167d 6h 42min

Earth orbits:

2599

Team photo

Alexander Samokutjajew, Barry Wilmore and Jelena Serowa

◄ Before / After ►

Soyuz TMA-13M
(manned)

Soyuz TMA-15M
(manned)

Soyuz TMA-14M 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-40S. It was the 40th visit by a Soyuz spacecraft to the ISS and the 146th flight in the Soyuz program.

crew

Main crew

Alexander Michailowitsch Samokutjajew (2nd space flight), Commander, ( Russia / Roscosmos )
Jelena Olegowna Serowa (1st space flight), flight engineer, (Russia / Roskosmos)
Barry Eugene Wilmore (2nd spaceflight), flight engineer, ( USA / NASA )

The flight engineer Jelena Serova is the first Russian cosmonaut to fly to the ISS. She is the second Russian woman after Jelena Kondakowa with a long-term mission and the fourth Soviet / Russian woman with a space flight (after Valentina Tereschkowa , Svetlana Savizkaya and Jelena Kondakowa).

Substitute team

Gennady Ivanovich Padalka (5th space flight), Commander, (Russia / Roscosmos)
Michail Borissowitsch Kornijenko (2nd space flight), flight engineer, (Russia / Roscosmos)
Scott Joseph Kelly (4th spaceflight), flight engineer, (USA / NASA)

Mission description

The mission brought three crew members from ISS expeditions 41 and 42 to the International Space Station. After the start on September 25, 2014, only one of the two arms with the solar cells unfolded, but the mission was not endangered. As usual since Soyuz TMA-08M , the spacecraft approached the ISS after just a few hours. After the coupling, the second solar cell boom also unfolded successfully.

After arrival, there were five spaceships at the ISS for almost a month: Soyuz TMA-13M and Soyuz TMA-14M for the crew, as well as the three space carriers Progress M-24M, ATV-5 Georges Lemaître and Dragon CRS -4.

On March 11, 2015 at 22:44 UTC Soyuz TMA-14M undocked with Samokutjajew, Serova and Wilmore on board. This marked the beginning of Expedition 43 on the ISS with Terry Virts as commander. The Deorbit Burn took place at 1:16 UTC on March 12, 12 km from the ISS, when radio contact was unexpectedly broken off at this early point in time . The spaceship nevertheless completed all procedures according to the regulations and brought the landing capsule at 1:45 UTC into the denser areas of the earth's atmosphere . The braking parachute was activated at a height of 10.7 kilometers, and the huge white-orange-striped main parachute unfolded at a height of about 7.5 kilometers. The landing finally took place at 2:07 UTC 145 km southeast of Scheskasgan in thick fog in the middle of the steppe of Kazakhstan .