Soyuz TMA-17M

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Soyuz TMA-17M
ISS-44 Typhoon Soudelor with Soyuz TMA-17M and Progress M-28M.jpg
Soyuz TMA-17M flying above Typhoon Soudelor while docked to the ISS
Operator Roscosmos
COSPAR ID 2015-035A OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
SATCAT no. 40744
Mission duration141 days, 16 hours and 9 minutes
Spacecraft properties
Spacecraft type Soyuz-TMA 11F732A47 No.717
Manufacturer Energia
Crew
Crew size3
Members Oleg Kononenko
Kimiya Yui
Kjell N. Lindgren
Start of mission
Launch date22 July 2015
21:02:45 UTC
Rocket Soyuz-FG
Launch site Baikonur 1/5
End of mission
Landing date11 December 2015
13:12 UTC
Landing siteKazakhstan
Orbital parameters
Reference system Geocentric
Regime Low Earth
Docking with ISS
Docking port Rassvet nadir
Docking date23 July 2015
02:45 UTC
Undocking date11 December 2015
09:47 UTC
Time docked141 days, 7 hours, 2 minutes
Soyuz TMA-17M crew at Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center.jpg
(l-r) Kononenko, Lindgren and Yui
Soyuz programme
(Crewed missions)

Soyuz TMA-17M was a 2015 flight to the International Space Station. It transported three members of the Expedition 44 crew to the International Space Station. TMA-17M was the 126th flight of a Soyuz spacecraft; the first having occurred in 1967. The crew consisted of a Russian commander accompanied by Japanese and American astronauts. The capsule remained docked to the space station for about five months until the scheduled departure of Expedition 45 in December 2015. Soyuz TMA-17M landed safely on the steppes of Kazakhstan on 11 December, 2015, in a rare night landing.

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Crew

Position [1] Crew Member
Commander Flag of Russia.svg Oleg Kononenko, Roscosmos
Expedition 44/45
Third spaceflight
Flight Engineer 1 Flag of Japan.svg Kimiya Yui, JAXA
Expedition 44/45
First spaceflight
Flight Engineer 2 Flag of the United States.svg Kjell N. Lindgren, NASA
Expedition 44/45
First spaceflight

Backup crew

Position [2] Crew Member
Commander Flag of Russia.svg Yuri Malenchenko, Roscosmos
Flight Engineer 1 Flag of the United States.svg Timothy Kopra, NASA
Flight Engineer 2 Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Timothy Peake, ESA

Mission Insigna

The mission patch for the mission is completely based on Apollo 17 insignia.


See also


References

  1. Планируемые полёты (in Russian). astronaut.ru. Retrieved 2012-09-04.
  2. astronaut.ru (2013). "Орбитальные полёты".