Soyuz MS-12

Soyuz MS-12

The launch of Soyuz MS-12
Operator	Roscosmos
COSPAR ID	2019-013A
SATCAT no.	44069
Mission duration	202d 15h 46m
Distance travelled	86.1 million miles. [1]
Orbits completed	3,248 [2]
Spacecraft properties
Spacecraft	Soyuz Spacecraft
Spacecraft type	Soyuz-MS 11F747
Manufacturer	Energia
Crew
Crew size	3
Members	Aleksey Ovchinin Nick Hague
Launching	Christina Koch
Landing	Hazza Al Mansouri
Callsign	Burlak [3]
Start of mission
Launch date	14 March 2019, 19:14:08 UTC [4] [5]
Rocket	Soyuz-FG
Launch site	Baikonur, Pad 1/5
Contractor	RKTs Progress
End of mission
Landing date	3 October 2019, 10:59 UTC [2]
Landing site	47°24'04.44"N, 69°34'14.1"E [2]
Orbital parameters
Reference system	Geocentric
Regime	Low Earth
Inclination	51.6° [5]
Docking with ISS
Docking port	Rassvet nadir
Docking date	15 March 2019, 01:01 UTC [2]
Undocking date	3 October 2019, 07:37 UTC [2]
Time docked	202d 6h 36m
(l-r) Koch, Ovchinin and Hague Soyuz programme (crewed) ←  Soyuz MS-11 Soyuz MS-13  →

Soyuz MS-12 was a Soyuz spaceflight that launched on 14 March 2019, carrying three members of the Expedition 59 crew to the International Space Station. ^[6] The mission ended on 3 October 2019 when Soyuz-MS-12 successfully landed.

Crew

Position	Launching Crew member	Landing Crew member
Commander	Aleksey Ovchinin, Roscosmos Expedition 59/60 Second [a] spaceflight
Flight Engineer 1	Nick Hague, NASA Expedition 59/60 First [a] spaceflight
Flight Engineer 2/Spaceflight Participant	Christina Koch, NASA Expedition 59/60/61 First spaceflight	Hazza Al Mansouri, MBRSC First spaceflight

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Backup crew

Position	Crew member
Commander	Aleksandr Skvortsov, Roscosmos
Flight Engineer 1	Luca Parmitano, ESA
Flight Engineer 2	Andrew R. Morgan, NASA

Original crew

Position	Launching Crew member	Landing Crew member
Commander	Oleg Skripochka, Roscosmos Expedition 59 Third spaceflight
Flight Engineer 1	Christina Koch, NASA Expedition 59 First spaceflight
Spaceflight Participant	Hazza Al Mansouri, MBRSC First spaceflight	N/A

Original backup crew

Position	Crew member
Commander	Andrei Borisenko, Roscosmos
Flight Engineer 1	Jessica Meir, NASA
Flight Engineer 2	Sultan Al Neyadi

Soyuz MS-12 was scheduled to be the debut flight for Hazza Al Mansouri or Sultan Al Neyadi, the first two astronauts from the United Arab Emirates, but this was delayed to flight Soyuz MS-15 following the Soyuz MS-10 mission failure. ^[10]

Notes

1. Not counting the aborted flight of Soyuz MS-10.

References

• Spaceflight portal

1. NASA Astronaut Nick Hague, Crewmates Return Safely from International Space Station
2. Soyuz MS-12
3. "Центр подготовки космонавтов им. Ю.А.Гагарина. Официальный Web-сайт". www.gctc.ru (in Russian).
4. Pietrobon, Steven (9 January 2019). "Russian Launch Manifest" . Retrieved 9 January 2019.
5. "Spaceflight mission report: Soyuz MS-12". www.spacefacts.de.
6. Gebhardt, Chris (14 March 2019). "Soyuz MS-12 docks with the Space Station". NASASpaceflight.com.
7. "Не сумевший добраться до МКС экипаж "Союза" повторит попытку 1 марта" [Unable to get to the ISS, the crew of the Soyuz will try again on March 1]. Interfax.ru (in Russian). 26 November 2018. Retrieved 28 November 2018.
8. "Астронавт НАСА Хейг может отправиться в космос на год, сообщил источник" [NASA Astronaut Hague Could Go to Space for a Year, Source Says]. RIA Novosti (in Russian). 13 January 2019.
9. Evans, Ben (8 March 2019). "On International Women's Day, NASA Looks Forward to First All-Female EVA in Late March; Koch Tapped for Longer ISS Stay". AmericaSpace.
10. Ryan, Patrick (27 January 2019). "UAE's astronauts in training try out zero gravity". The National . Retrieved 23 February 2019.