Mission type | ISS crew transport |
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Operator | Roscosmos |
COSPAR ID | 2017-054A |
SATCAT no. | 42937 |
Mission duration | 168 days 5 hours 13 minutes 58 seconds |
Spacecraft properties | |
Spacecraft | Soyuz MS |
Spacecraft type | Soyuz-MS 11F747 |
Manufacturer | Energia |
Launch mass | 7080 kg |
Crew | |
Crew size | 3 |
Members | Alexander Misurkin Mark T. Vande Hei Joseph M. Acaba |
Start of mission | |
Launch date | 12 September 2017, 21:17:02 UTC [1] |
Rocket | Soyuz-FG |
Launch site | Baikonur, Site 1/5 |
Contractor | RKTs Progress |
End of mission | |
Landing date | 28 February 2018 02:31 UTC [2] |
Landing site | Steppes of Kazakhstan |
Orbital parameters | |
Reference system | Geocentric orbit |
Regime | Low Earth orbit |
Inclination | 51.66° |
Docking with ISS | |
Docking port | Poisk zenith |
Docking date | 13 September 2017, 02:55 UTC |
Undocking date | 27 February 2018, 23:08 UTC |
Time docked | 167 days 20 hours 13 minutes |
(l-r) Acaba, Misurkin and Vande Hei |
Soyuz MS-06 was a Soyuz spaceflight which launched on 13 September 2017. [1] It transported three members of the Expedition 53 crew to the International Space Station. Soyuz MS-06 was the 135th flight of a Soyuz spacecraft. The crew consisted of a Russian commander, and two American flight engineers. [3] It returned to Earth on 28 February 2018 after 168 days in orbit. [2]
Position | Crew member | |
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Commander | Alexander Misurkin, Roscosmos Expedition 53/54 Second spaceflight | |
Flight Engineer 1 | Mark T. Vande Hei, NASA Expedition 53/54 First spaceflight | |
Flight Engineer 2 | Joseph M. Acaba, NASA Expedition 53/54 Third spaceflight |
Position [4] | Crew member | |
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Commander | Anton Shkaplerov, Roscosmos | |
Flight Engineer 1 | Scott D. Tingle, NASA | |
Flight Engineer 2 | Shannon Walker, NASA |
External videos | |
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Soyuz MS-06 and ISS over Moscow on 13 September 2017. |
Due to a decision to cut down the number of participating Russian astronauts in 2017, changes were made in crew assignments to the ISS. [5] Originally set to be on Soyuz MS-04, Alexander Misurkin and Mark T. Vande Hei have been assigned to Soyuz MS-06 instead. [3]
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