Soyuz MS-03

Soyuz MS-03

Soyuz MS-03 docked to International Space Station (ISS).
Mission type	ISS crew transport
Operator	Roscosmos
COSPAR ID	2016-070A
SATCAT no.	41864
Mission duration	196 days 17 hours 49 minutes
Spacecraft properties
Spacecraft	Soyuz MS
Spacecraft type	Soyuz MS 11F732A48
Manufacturer	Energia
Launch mass	7080 kg
Crew
Crew size	3 (launching) 2 (landing)
Members	Oleg Novitsky Thomas Pesquet
Launching	Peggy Whitson
Callsign	Kazbek
Start of mission
Launch date	17 November 2016, 20:17:00 UTC
Rocket	Soyuz-FG
Launch site	Baikonur, Site 1
Contractor	RKTs Progress
End of mission
Landing date	2 June 2017, 14:10 UTC
Landing site	Steppes of the Kazakhstan
Orbital parameters
Reference system	Geocentric orbit
Regime	Low Earth orbit
Inclination	51.66°
Docking with ISS
Docking port	Rassvet nadir
Docking date	19 November 2016, 21:58 UTC
Undocking date	2 June 2017, 10:47 UTC
Time docked	194 days
Mission insignia (l-r) Pesquet, Whitson and Novitsky Soyuz programme (crewed) ←  Soyuz MS-02 Soyuz MS-04  →

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]

Crew

Prime crew

Position [3]	Launching crew	Landing crew
Commander	Oleg Novitsky, Roscosmos Expedition 50 Second spaceflight
Flight engineer	Thomas Pesquet, ESA Expedition 50 First spaceflight
Flight engineer	Peggy Whitson, NASA Expedition 50/51/52 Third spaceflight	None [4]

Backup crew

Position [5]	Crew
Commander	Fyodor Yurchikhin, Roscosmos
Flight engineer	Jack D. Fischer, NASA
Flight engineer	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. ^{[6] [7]} Soyuz MS-03 docked at the International Space Station on 19 November 2016. ^[8] 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.

References

• Spaceflight portal

1. "Soyuz MS-03 mission".
2. "Display: Soyuz MS-03 2016-070A". NASA. 14 May 2020. Retrieved 27 November 2020. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain .
3. Планируемые полёты. astronaut.ru (in Russian). Retrieved 13 March 2014.
4. Harwood, William. "Whitson's station expedition extended three months". Spaceflight Now. Retrieved 5 April 2017.
5. astronaut.ru (2015). "Планируемые полёты" (in Russian).
6. "NASA's Peggy Whitson Becomes Oldest Woman in Space". abcnews.go.com. ABC News. Retrieved 19 November 2016.
7. Chiara Palazzo (18 November 2016). "NASA veteran Peggy Whitson becomes the oldest woman in space as she blasts off for ISS". The Telegraph. Telegraph.co.uk. Retrieved 19 November 2016.
8. "Welcome Aboard! New Arrivals Make Six Expedition 50 s | Space Station". blogs.nasa.gov. Archived from the original on 25 November 2016. Retrieved 24 November 2016. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain .