Soyuz TMA-18M

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Soyuz TMA-18M
Exp46 undock2.jpg
Soyuz TMA-18M undocks from the ISS, 2 March 2016.
Operator Roskosmos
COSPAR ID 2015-043A
Spacecraft properties
Spacecraft type Soyuz-TMA 11F747 No.718
Manufacturer RKK Energia
Crew
Crew size 3
Members Sergey Volkov
Launching Andreas Mogensen
Aydyn Aimbetov
Landing Mikhail Korniyenko
Scott Kelly
Callsign Eridan
Start of mission
Launch date 2 September 2015
04:37:42 UTC
Rocket Soyuz-FG
End of mission
Landing date 2 March 2016
04:25:27 UTC
Orbital parameters
Reference system Geocentric
Regime Low Earth
Docking with ISS
Docking port Poisk
Docking date 4 September 2015
07:42:00 UTC
Undocking date 2 March 2016
01:02:30 UTC
Time docked 179 days, 17 hours, 20 minutes
Soyuz-TMA-18M-Mission-Patch.png

Soyuz TMA-18M crew members during training sessions.jpg
(l-r) Mogensen, Volkov and Aimbetov

Soyuz programme
(Manned missions)
← Soyuz TMA-17M Soyuz TMA-19M →

Soyuz TMA-18M is a Soyuz spaceflight launched on 2 September 2015. It provided the two twelve-months occupants (Scott Kelly and Mikhail Korniyenko) at the International Space Station with a fresh Soyuz capsule. TMA-18M was the 127th flight of a Soyuz spacecraft; the first having occurred in 1967. The ascent flight consisted of a Russian commander and two flight engineers from Denmark (ESA) and Kazakhstan respectively.[1]

The Kazakh Aidyn Aimbetov is of the first Kazakh cosmonaut class, and the first to fly.[2] The ESA astronaut Andreas Mogensen became the first Dane in space.[3]

The descent crew will be the same Russian commander and the two twelve-months occupants in March 2016. Two of the ascent crew members returned to Earth with Soyuz TMA-16M in September 2015.

Crew

Position[4] Launching Crew Member Landing Crew Member
Commander Russia Sergey Volkov, RSA
Expedition 45
Third spaceflight
Flight Engineer 1 Denmark Andreas Mogensen[5], ESA
IrISS[6]
First spaceflight		 Russia Mikhail Korniyenko, RSA
Expedition 46
Second spaceflight
Flight Engineer 2 Kazakhstan Aidyn Aimbetov[1], KazCosmos
N/A
First spaceflight		 United States Scott Kelly, NASA
Expedition 46
Fourth and last spaceflight

Backup crew

Position[7] Crew Member
Commander Russia Oleg Skripochka, RSA
Flight Engineer 1 France Thomas Pesquet, ESA
Flight Engineer 2 Russia Sergey Prokopyev[1], RSA

Space tourist in the third seat

Originally the third member should have been the British singer Sarah Brightman as a space tourist, but on May 13, 2015, she announced she had withdrawn from training.[8]

Japanese entrepreneur Satoshi Takamatsu trained as Sarah Brightman's backup, but he withdrew from the flight as the art projects he had planned to carry out would not be ready by the September launch date. He stated he would try for a later flight when his projects were ready to fly.[2]

Russian businessman Filaret Galchev was offered the seat, but he realized that he didn't have the time to prepare himself for the flight.[1]

Roscosmos chose the Kazakh cosmonaut Aidyn Aimbetov as an alternative instead.[2]

Landing

The spacecraft successfully landed on 2 March 2016 04:26 UTC,[9] returning the ISS year long mission crew.

See also

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  3. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  4. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  5. ↑ Andreas Mogensen set for Soyuz mission to Space Station in 2015
  6. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  7. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  8. ↑ Singer Sarah Brightman calls off flight to space station 13 May 2015
  9. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.

External links

  • Media related to Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. at Wikimedia Commons
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