Soyuz MS-21

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Soyuz MS-21
Prichal with Soyuz MS-21 is pictured during a spacewalk (cropped).jpg
Soyuz MS-21 docked to the ISS
NamesISS 67S
Mission typeCrewed mission to ISS
Operator Roscosmos
COSPAR ID 2022-028A OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
SATCAT no. 52086 OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
Website http://en.roscosmos.ru/
Mission duration194 days, 19 hours and 2 minutes
Spacecraft properties
Spacecraft Soyuz MS No.750 Korolyov [1]
Spacecraft type Soyuz MS
Manufacturer RKK Energia
Crew
Crew size3
Members
CallsignDon
Start of mission
Launch date18 March 2022, 15:55:18 UTC [2] [3]
Rocket Soyuz-2.1a
Launch site Baikonur Cosmodrome, Site 31
Contractor Progress Rocket Space Centre
End of mission
Landing date29 September 2022, 10:57 UTC
Landing site Kazakh Steppe
Orbital parameters
Reference system Geocentric orbit
Regime Low Earth orbit
Inclination 51.66°
Docking with ISS
Docking port Prichal nadir
Docking date18 March 2022, 19:12 UTC
Undocking date29 September 2022, 07:34 UTC
Time docked194 days, 12 hours and 22 minutes
Soyuz MS-21 crew portrait.jpg
Matveev, Artemyev and Korsakov 

Soyuz MS-21 was a Russian Soyuz spaceflight to the International Space Station (ISS) with a crew of three launched from Baikonur on 18 March 2022. The launch was previously planned for 30 March 2022, but in the provisional flight manifest prepared by Roscosmos by the end of Summer 2020, the launch of Soyuz MS-21 was advanced to 18 March 2022. [2]

Contents

It was the first mission to the ISS with three Roscosmos cosmonauts. [4]

On 29 September 2022, after 6 months and 11 days, the mission completed successfully as planned with a landing on the Kazakh Steppe in Kazakhstan. [5]

Crew

The three-Russian member crew were named in May 2021. [6] Although NASA had not decided whether or not they would purchase a seat on the flight, NASA astronaut Loral O'Hara was preparing to replace Sergey Korsakov if the agency decided to buy a seat. [7] Later, NASA decided not to acquire a seat on the Soyuz MS-21 launching in March 2022, deferring a NASA Roscosmos seat swap for Soyuz MS-22 and SpaceX Crew-5. [8]

Soyuz MS-21 crew members. Soyuz MS-21 Crew Portrait (ISS).jpg
Soyuz MS-21 crew members.
Position Crew member
Commander Flag of Russia.svg Oleg Artemyev, Roscosmos
Expedition 66/67
Third spaceflight
Flight Engineer 1 Flag of Russia.svg Denis Matveev, Roscosmos
Expedition 66/67
First spaceflight
Flight Engineer 2 Flag of Russia.svg Sergey Korsakov, Roscosmos
Expedition 66/67
First spaceflight

Backup crew

Position Crew member
Commander Flag of Russia.svg Sergey Prokopyev, Roscosmos
Flight Engineer 1 Flag of Russia.svg Dmitriy Petelin, Roscosmos
Flight Engineer 2 Flag of Russia.svg Anna Kikina, Roscosmos

Arrival suits

The arriving cosmonauts at the station have gained particular international attention after entering in bright yellow suits with blue elements, having changed before and after into different suits. [9] International commentators saw in these colours the national colours of Ukraine and interpreted the personal choice of suits by the cosmonauts as a sign of their sympathy for Ukraine in the light of the parallel ongoing 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, which strained also space cooperation such as the ISS program after international sanctions on Russia. [10] The cosmonauts said when asked about the colours that the yellow suits needed to be used, and Roscosmos followed with a statement that the colours are to be read as the identifying colours of the Bauman Moscow State Technical University, from which all three cosmonauts graduated. [9]

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