Soyuz TMA-15

Mission emblem

Mission dates

Mission:

Soyuz TMA-15

COSPAR-ID :

2009-030A

Spacecraft:

Soyuz 7K-STA ( GRAY index 11F732)
serial number 225

Launcher:

Soyuz FG (GRAY index 11A511FG)

Call sign:

Парус ("Parus" - sail )

Crew:

3

Begin:

May 27, 2009, 10:34:49 UTC

Starting place:

Baikonur 1/5

Space station:

ISS

Docking place:

Zarya

Coupling:

May 29, 2009 12:36 UTC

Decoupling:

December 1, 2009 03:56 UTC

Landing:

December 1, 2009 07:15:34 UTC

Landing place:

near Arqalyq , Kazakhstan

Team photo

v. l. To the right: Robert Thirsk, Roman Romanenko, Frank De Winne

◄ Before / After ►

Soyuz TMA-14
(manned)

Soyuz TMA-16
(manned)

Soyuz TMA-15 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-19S. It is the 19th visit by a Soyuz spacecraft to the ISS and the 125th flight in the Soyuz program. The launch took place on May 27, 2009, and on May 29, the spaceship docked at the ISS.

crew

Roman Jurjewitsch Romanenko (1st space flight), Commander ( Russia / Roscosmos )
Frank De Winne (2nd spaceflight), flight engineer ( Belgium / ESA )
Robert Thirsk (2nd spaceflight), flight engineer ( Canada / CSA )

Substitute team

Dmitry Yuryevich Kondratyev (Russia / Roskosmos) (for Romanenko)
André Kuipers ( Netherlands / ESA) (for De Winne)
Chris Hadfield (Canada / CSA) (for Thirsk)

Mission overview

This mission brought three additional crew members from ISS expeditions 20 and 21 to the International Space Station. The Soyuz spacecraft remained docked and served as a second escape capsule alongside the Soyuz TMA-14 for the long-term crew, which had grown to six with this flight.