Soyuz MS-04

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Soyuz MS-04
Expedition 51 Rollout (NHQ201704170044).jpg
Soyuz MS-04 prior to launch
Mission type ISS crew transport
Operator Roscosmos
COSPAR ID 2017-020A OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
SATCAT no. 42682 OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
Mission duration136 days
Distance travelled92.5 million kilometres
Orbits completed2176
Spacecraft properties
Spacecraft Soyuz MS
Spacecraft typeSoyuz MS 11F732A48
Manufacturer Energia
Launch mass7080 kg
Crew
Crew size2 (launching)
3 (landing)
Members Fyodor Yurchikhin
Jack D. Fischer
Landing Peggy Whitson
CallsignOlimp (Olympus)
Start of mission
Launch date20 April 2017, 07:13:44 UTC
Rocket Soyuz-FG
Launch site Baikonur, Site 1
Contractor Progress
End of mission
Landing date3 September 2017, 01:22 UTC
Landing siteSteppes of the Kazakhstan
Orbital parameters
Reference system Geocentric orbit
Regime Low Earth orbit
Inclination 51.66°
Docking with ISS
Docking port Poisk zenith
Docking date20 April 2017, 13:18 UTC
Undocking date2 September 2017, 21:58 UTC
Time docked135 days
Soyuz MS-04 crew in front of their spacecraft.jpg
Yurchikhin and Fischer in front of their spacecraft
Soyuz programme
(Crewed missions)

Soyuz MS-04 was a Soyuz spaceflight that launched on 20 April 2017 to the ISS. [1] It transported two members of the Expedition 52 crew to the International Space Station. Soyuz MS-04 was the 133rd flight of a Soyuz spacecraft. The crew consisted of a Russian commander and an American flight engineer. It was the first of the Soyuz MS series to rendezvous with the Station in approximately 6 hours, instead of the 2 day orbital rendezvous used for the previous launches. It was also the first Soyuz to launch with only 2 crew members since Soyuz TMA-2.

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Crew

Position [2] Launching Crew MemberLanding Crew Member
Commander Flag of Russia.svg Fyodor Yurchikhin, Roscosmos
Expedition 51
Fifth and last spaceflight
Flight Engineer 1 Flag of the United States.svg Jack D. Fischer, NASA
Expedition 51
Only spaceflight
Flight Engineer 2N/A Flag of the United States.svg Peggy Whitson, NASA [3]
Expedition 50/51/52
Third (last NASA) [4] spaceflight

Backup crew

Position [2] Crew Member
Commander Flag of Russia.svg Sergey Ryazansky, Roscosmos
Flight Engineer 1 Flag of the United States.svg Randolph Bresnik, NASA

Due to a decision to cut down the number of participating Russian astronauts in 2017, only two astronauts were launched on Soyuz MS-04. [5] Originally set to include 3 people, the crew assignments were changed in November 2016 by NASA and Roscosmos.

Original crew

Position Crew member
Commander Flag of Russia.svg Alexander Misurkin, Roscosmos
Expedition 51
Second spaceflight
Flight Engineer 1 Flag of Russia.svg Nikolai Tikhonov, Roscosmos
Expedition 51
First spaceflight
Flight Engineer 2 Flag of the United States.svg Mark T. Vande Hei, NASA
Expedition 51
First spaceflight

Alexander Misurkin and Mark T. Vande Hei were reassigned to Soyuz MS-06 and served as part of Expedition 53/54, [6] Nikolai Tikhonov was reassigned to Soyuz MS-10 to serve as part of Expedition 57/58 although was also pulled of that mission due to the same budget cuts. [7]

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