Soyuz TMA-17

Mission emblem
Mission dates
Mission:	Soyuz TMA-17
COSPAR-ID :	2009-074A
Spacecraft:	Soyuz 7K-STA ( GRAY index  11F732) serial number 227
Launcher:	Soyuz FG (GRAY index 11A511FG)
Call sign:	Пульсар (" pulsar ")
Crew:	3
Begin:	December 20, 2009, 21:52 UTC
Starting place:	Baikonur 1/5
Space station:	ISS
Docking place:	Zarya (FGB nadir)
Coupling:	December 22, 2009, 10:48 pm UTC
Decoupling:	June 2, 2010, 00:04 UTC
Duration on the ISS :	161d 01h 16min
Landing:	June 2, 2010, 03:25 UTC
Landing place:	Kazakhstan (47.35 ° N / 69.58 ° E)
Flight duration:	163d 05h 33min
Team photo
v. l. To the right: Timothy Creamer, Oleg Kotow, Soichi Noguchi
◄ Before / After ►
Soyuz TMA-16 (manned) Soyuz TMA-18 (manned)

Soyuz TMA-17 was 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 was designated ISS AF-21S. It was the 21st visit of a Soyuz spacecraft to the ISS and the 127th flight in the Soyuz program.

crew

• Oleg Valerjewitsch Kotow (2nd space flight), Commander ( Russia / Roscosmos )
• Sōichi Noguchi (2nd space flight), flight engineer ( Japan / JAXA )
• Timothy John Creamer (1st spaceflight), flight engineer ( USA / NASA )

Mission overview

Soyuz TMA-17 took off on December 20, 2009 at 21:52 UTC from the Baikonur spaceport , Kazakhstan and docked two days later at the nadir docking port of the Zarya module on the ISS. The mission brought three crew members from ISS expeditions 22 and 23 to the International Space Station, which at that time had only been manned by two men for three weeks. After arriving on board the ISS, Christmas was celebrated twice (once after Russian and once after Greenwich Mean Time), for which Soyuz TMA-17 also brought a plastic Christmas tree to the station. Until March 18, 2010, the Soyuz spacecraft served as a second escape capsule alongside Soyuz TMA-16 for the long-term crew, which had grown to five people.

On June 2, 2010 at 00:04 UTC, Soyuz TMA-17 disconnected from the ISS with Kotow, Noguchi and Creamer on board. This marked the beginning of Expedition 24 on the ISS with Alexander Skworzow as commander. Soyuz TMA-17 landed at 03:25 UTC in the Kazakh steppe.

See also

• List of manned space flights
• List of spacemen

Web links

Commons : Soyuz TMA-17  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Soyuz TMA-17 at spacefacts.de
• Soyuz TMA-17 on the Russian Space Web
• Soyuz TMA-17 at space.kursknet.ru (English / Russian , archived 2016)
• Soyuz TMA-17 in the Encyclopedia Astronautica (English)
• Soyuz TMA-17 in the NSSDCA Master Catalog (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Spaceflight Now: Soyuz launches new crew in pursuit of the space station , accessed on December 21, 2009 (English)
2. ↑ ^{a b} ISS On-Orbit Status 01/12/09. NASA , December 1, 2009, accessed October 2, 2014 . 
3. ↑ Katherine Trinidad, Nicole Cloutier-Lemasters: NASA Assigns Space Station Crews, Updates Expedition Numbering. NASA, November 21, 2008, accessed November 21, 2008 . 
4. ↑ FliegerRevue April 2010, pp. 42–44, Mission Soyuz TMA-17 / Expedition 22
5. ↑ Выявлены признаки карстовой морфологии Титана. Roscosmos, June 2, 2010, archived from the original on June 20, 2013 ; Retrieved June 2, 2010 (Russian).