![]() Soyuz MS-15 launches from Site 1/5 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome, marking the final crewed mission from the historic pad where Yuri Gagarin began humanity’s journey into space. | |
Names | ISS 61S |
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Mission type | ISS crew transport |
Operator | Roscosmos |
COSPAR ID | 2019-064A |
SATCAT no. | 44550 ![]() |
Mission duration | 204 days, 15 hours and 18 minutes |
Distance travelled | 139,900,000 km (86,900,000 mi) [1] |
Orbits completed | 3,280 [1] |
Spacecraft properties | |
Spacecraft | Soyuz-MS No. 744 |
Spacecraft type | Soyuz-MS |
Manufacturer | Energia |
Crew | |
Crew size | 3 |
Members | Oleg Skripochka Jessica Meir |
Launching | Hazza Al Mansouri |
Landing | Andrew Morgan |
Callsign | Sarmat (Сармат) |
Start of mission | |
Launch date | 25 September 2019, 13:57:42 UTC [2] [3] |
Rocket | Soyuz-FG No. Ya15000-071 [4] |
Launch site | Baikonur, Site 1/5 |
Contractor | RKTs Progress |
End of mission | |
Landing date | 17 April 2020, 05:16:10 UTC |
Landing site | Steppe of Kazakhstan near the town of Dzhezkazgan ( 47°17′12.6″N69°32′31.2″E / 47.286833°N 69.542000°E ) [3] |
Orbital parameters | |
Reference system | Geocentric orbit |
Regime | Low Earth orbit |
Perigee altitude | 416 km (258 mi) |
Apogee altitude | 422 km (262 mi) |
Inclination | 51.64° [3] |
Docking with ISS | |
Docking port | Zvezda aft |
Docking date | 25 September 2019, 19:42:40 UTC |
Undocking date | 17 April 2020, 01:53:00 UTC |
Time docked | 204 days, 6 hours and 10 minutes |
![]() Mission patch ![]() Launching crew, from left: Al Mansouri, Skripochka and Meir |
Soyuz MS-15 was a Soyuz spaceflight launched on 25 September 2019, [2] transporting two members of the Expedition 61 crew and a short duration visiting crew member to the International Space Station. Soyuz MS-15 was the 143rd flight of a Soyuz spacecraft with a crew. It was the last flight of Soyuz-FG launcher before its replacement by the Soyuz-2 in the crewed spaceflight role, and also the final launch from Site 1/5 (Gagarin's Start). The crew consisted of a Russian commander, an American flight engineer, and the first Emirati astronaut. [5] [6] To celebrate this event, pictures of the Soyuz launcher and of Hazza Al Mansouri were projected on Burj Khalifa, the tallest building in the world. [7]
Position [8] | Launching crew member | Landing crew member |
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Commander | ![]() Expedition 61/62 Third and last spaceflight | |
Flight Engineer 1 | ![]() Expedition 61/62 First spaceflight | |
Visiting Astronaut/Flight Engineer 2 | ![]() 19th Visiting Expedition First spaceflight | ![]() Expedition 60/61/62 First spaceflight |
Position | Crew member | |
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Commander | ![]() | |
Flight Engineer | ![]() | |
Visiting Astronaut | ![]() |