Soyuz TMA-20M

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Soyuz TMA-20M
File:Soyuz TMA-20M spacecraft approaches the ISS (1).jpg
Soyuz TMA-20M spacecraft approaches the ISS
Operator Roskosmos
COSPAR ID 2016-018A
SATCAT № 41391
Spacecraft properties
Spacecraft type Soyuz-TMA-M 11F747 No.720[1]
Manufacturer RKK Energia
Crew
Crew size 3
Members Aleksey Ovchinin
Oleg Skripochka
Jeffrey Williams
Callsign Burlak
Start of mission
Launch date March 18, 2016
21:26:38 UTC
Rocket Soyuz-FG
Launch site Baikonur 1/5
Orbital parameters
Reference system Geocentric
Regime Low Earth
Docking with ISS
Docking port Poisk zenith
Docking date March 19, 2016
03:09 UTC[2]
File:Soyuz-TMA-20M-Mission-Patch.png

File:Soyuz TMA-20M official crew portrait.jpg
(l-r) Williams, Ovchinin and Skripochka


Soyuz programme
(Manned missions)
← Soyuz TMA-19M Soyuz MS-01

Soyuz TMA-20M is a Soyuz is a 2016 spaceflight to the International Space Station (ISS).[3] It transported three members of the Expedition 47 crew to the ISS. TMA-20M is the 129th flight of a Soyuz spacecraft. The crew consists of a Russian commander and flight engineer, as well as an American flight engineer.

It is the final planned Soyuz TMA-M, which will be replaced by the upgraded Soyuz-MS.

Crew

Position[4] Crew Member
Commander Russia Aleksey Ovchinin, RSA
Expedition 47
First spaceflight
Flight Engineer 1 Russia Oleg Skripochka, RSA
Expedition 47
Second spaceflight
Flight Engineer 2 United States Jeffrey Williams, NASA
Expedition 47
Fourth spaceflight

Backup crew

Position[5] Crew Member
Commander Russia Sergey Ryzhikov, RSA
Flight Engineer 1 Russia Andrei Borisenko, RSA
Flight Engineer 2 United States Shane Kimbrough, NASA

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