Soyuz TMA-16

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Mission dates
Mission: Soyuz TMA-16
COSPAR-ID : 2009-053A
Spacecraft: Soyuz 7K-STA ( GRAY index  11F732)
serial number 226
Launcher: Soyuz FG (GRAY index 11A511FG)
Call sign: Цефей ( "Cepheus" )
Crew: 3
Begin: September 30, 2009, 7:14 UTC
Starting place: Baikonur 1/5
Space station: ISS
Docking place: Zvezda , from January 21, 2010: Poisk
Coupling: October 2, 2009, 8:35 UTC
Decoupling: March 18, 2010, 8:03 UTC
Duration on the ISS : 166d 23h 28min
Landing: March 18, 2010, 11:24 UTC
Landing place: For Arkalyk , Kazakhstan 50.46 ° N, 67.27 ° E
Flight duration: 169d 4h 10min
Team photo
v.  l.  To the right: Guy Laliberté, Jeffrey Williams, Maxim Surajew
v. l. To the right: Guy Laliberté, Jeffrey Williams, Maxim Surajew
◄ Before / After ►
Soyuz TMA-15
(manned)
Soyuz TMA-17
(manned)

Soyuz TMA-16 is a mission name for a flight of the Russian spacecraft Soyuz to the International Space Station (ISS) . As part of the ISS program, the flight is designated ISS AF-20S. It was the 20th visit by a Soyuz spacecraft to the ISS and the 126th flight in the Soyuz program.

crew

Starting crew

The third place in the spaceship was originally intended for the Kazakh spaceman Aidyn Aimbetow . However, on June 4, Laliberté was announced as a space participant.

Substitute team

Return crew

  • Maxim Viktorovich Surayev, Commander
  • Jeffrey Nels Williams, flight engineer
  • The third seat was empty because the Soyuz TMA-2 launch crew only had two members because of the Columbia crash . In the period April 28, 2003 to March 18, 2010, the International Space Station had one Soyuz seat too many.

Mission overview

September 30, 2009 at 7:14 UTC one launched Soyuz-FG rocket from Baikonur cosmodrome , the Soyuz TMA-16 to the ISS and docked two days later automatically at the tail docking adapter of the Zvezda Module to. The mission brought two crew members from ISS expeditions 21 and 22 , as well as space tourist Guy Laliberté, to the International Space Station. The Soyuz spacecraft served as a second escape capsule alongside the Soyuz TMA-15 for the long-term crew, which has grown to six people since May 29, 2009. This was the first time that three Soyuz spaceships were docked to the ISS at the same time. Guy Laliberté returned to Earth with Soyuz TMA-14 after 11 days in space .

On January 21, 2010 Soyuz TMA-16 was disconnected and moved to the Poisk module within 21 minutes to make room for the Progress M-04M.

On March 18, 2010 8:03 UTC, the spaceship disconnected from the ISS after almost six months' stay with Maxim Surajew and Jeffrey Williams. After about two and a half hours, the brake engines were ignited for 4 minutes and 14 seconds. After a normal descent, the Soyuz TMA-16 crew capsule landed in the Kazakh steppe 60 km from Arkalyk at around 11:24 UTC .

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See also

Web links

Commons : Soyuz TMA-16  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

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