Soyuz TMA-15
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Mission dates | |||
Mission: | Soyuz TMA-15 | ||
COSPAR-ID : | 2009-030A | ||
Spacecraft: |
Soyuz 7K-STA ( GRAY index 11F732) serial number 225 |
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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 |
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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.
See also
Web links
Commons : Soyuz TMA-15 - collection of pictures, videos and audio files
- NASA: NASA Assigns Crews for STS-127 and Expedition 19 Missions (English)
- Soyuz TMA-15 at spacefacts.de
- Soyuz TMA-15 on the Russian Space Web
- Soyuz TMA-15 at space.kursknet.ru (English / Russian , archived 2016)
- Soyuz TMA-15 in the Encyclopedia Astronautica (English)
- Soyuz TMA-15 in the NSSDCA Master Catalog (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ ISS On-Orbit Status 01/12/09. NASA , December 1, 2009, accessed October 2, 2014 .
- ^ Nicole Cloutier-Lemasters, Michael Curie: NASA Announces Change for Return of Station Crew Members. NASA, March 3, 2009, accessed May 22, 2009 .
- ↑ Katherine Trinidad, Nicole Cloutier-Lemasters: NASA Assigns Space Station Crews, Updates Expedition Numbering. NASA, November 21, 2008, accessed November 21, 2008 .