Soyuz MS-03

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Soyuz MS-03
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Soyuz MS-03 docked to International Space Station (ISS).
Mission type ISS crew transport
Operator Roscosmos
COSPAR ID 2016-070A OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
SATCAT no. 41864 OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
Mission duration196 days 17 hours 49 minutes
Spacecraft properties
Spacecraft Soyuz MS
Spacecraft typeSoyuz MS 11F732A48
Manufacturer Energia
Launch mass7080 kg
Crew
Crew size3 (launching)
2 (landing)
Members Oleg Novitsky
Thomas Pesquet
Launching Peggy Whitson
Callsign Kazbek
Start of mission
Launch date17 November 2016,
20:17:00 UTC
Rocket Soyuz-FG
Launch site Baikonur, Site 1
Contractor Progress
End of mission
Landing date2 June 2017, 14:10 UTC
Landing siteSteppes of the Kazakhstan
Orbital parameters
Reference system Geocentric orbit
Regime Low Earth orbit
Inclination 51.66°
Docking with ISS
Docking port Rassvet nadir
Docking date19 November 2016, 21:58 UTC
Undocking date2 June 2017, 10:47 UTC
Time docked194 days
Soyuz MS-03 crew (2).jpg
(l-r) Pesquet, Whitson and Novitsky
Soyuz programme
(Crewed missions)

Soyuz MS-03 was a Soyuz spaceflight launched on 17 November 2016. [1] It transported three members of the Expedition 50 crew to the International Space Station. MS-03 was the 132nd flight of a Soyuz spacecraft. The crew consisted of a Russian commander with American and French flight engineers. [2]

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Crew

Position [3] Launching Crew MemberLanding Crew Member
Commander Flag of Russia.svg Oleg Novitsky, Roscosmos
Expedition 50
Second spaceflight
Flight Engineer 1 Flag of France.svg Thomas Pesquet, ESA
Expedition 50
First spaceflight
Flight Engineer 2 Flag of the United States.svg Peggy Whitson, NASA
Expedition 50/51/52
Third (last NASA) [4] spaceflight
N/A [5]

Backup crew

Position [6] Crew Member
Commander Flag of Russia.svg Fyodor Yurchikhin, Roscosmos
Flight Engineer 1 Flag of the United States.svg Jack D. Fischer, NASA
Flight Engineer 2 Flag of Italy.svg Paolo Nespoli, ESA

Mission highlights

Soyuz MS-03 launched with Expedition 50/51 on 17 November 2016, at 20:17 UTC. Astronaut Peggy Whitson, at age 56, became the oldest woman to fly into space. [7] [8] Soyuz MS-03 docked at the International Space Station on 19 November 2016. [9] On 2 June 2017, Soyuz MS-03 undocked from the ISS, carrying Oleg Novitsky and Thomas Pesquet back to Earth after 196 days in space. Whitson remained on the ISS and returned on Soyuz MS-04 on 3 September 2017.

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