Operator | Roscosmos |
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COSPAR ID | 2016-018A |
SATCAT no. | 41391 |
Mission duration | 172 days 3 hours 47 minutes |
Spacecraft properties | |
Spacecraft type | Soyuz-TMA-M 11F747 No.720 [1] |
Manufacturer | Energia |
Crew | |
Crew size | 3 |
Members | Aleksey Ovchinin Oleg Skripochka Jeffrey N. Williams |
Callsign | Burlak |
Start of mission | |
Launch date | March 18, 2016 21:26:38 UTC |
Rocket | Soyuz-FG |
Launch site | Baikonur 1/5 |
End of mission | |
Landing date | September 7, 2016 01:13 UTC |
Landing site | Kazakhstan |
Orbital parameters | |
Reference system | Geocentric |
Regime | Low Earth |
Docking with ISS | |
Docking port | Poisk zenith |
Docking date | March 19, 2016 03:09 UTC [2] |
Undocking date | September 6, 2016 21:51:30 UTC |
Time docked | 5 months, 2 weeks, 4 days, 18 hours, 42 minutes |
(l-r) Williams, Ovchinin and Skripochka Soyuz programme (Crewed missions) |
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Position [4] | Crew Member | |
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Commander | Aleksey Ovchinin, Roscosmos Expedition 47 First spaceflight | |
Flight Engineer 1 | Oleg Skripochka, Roscosmos Expedition 47 Second spaceflight | |
Flight Engineer 2 | Jeffrey Williams, NASA Expedition 47 Fourth and last spaceflight |
Position [5] | Crew Member | |
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Commander | Sergey Ryzhikov, Roscosmos | |
Flight Engineer 1 | Andrei Borisenko, Roscosmos | |
Flight Engineer 2 | Shane Kimbrough, NASA |
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