Soyuz TMA-20M

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Soyuz TMA-20M
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Soyuz TMA-20M spacecraft approaches the ISS
Operator Roscosmos
COSPAR ID 2016-018A OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
SATCAT no. 41391
Mission duration172 days 3 hours 47 minutes
Spacecraft properties
Spacecraft type Soyuz-TMA-M 11F747 No.720 [1]
Manufacturer Energia
Crew
Crew size3
Members Aleksey Ovchinin
Oleg Skripochka
Jeffrey N. Williams
CallsignBurlak
Start of mission
Launch dateMarch 18, 2016
21:26:38 UTC
Rocket Soyuz-FG
Launch site Baikonur 1/5
End of mission
Landing dateSeptember 7, 2016
01:13 UTC
Landing siteKazakhstan
Orbital parameters
Reference system Geocentric
Regime Low Earth
Docking with ISS
Docking port Poisk zenith
Docking dateMarch 19, 2016
03:09 UTC [2]
Undocking dateSeptember 6, 2016
21:51:30 UTC
Time docked5 months, 2 weeks, 4 days, 18 hours, 42 minutes
Soyuz TMA-20M official crew portrait.jpg
(l-r) Williams, Ovchinin and Skripochka
Soyuz programme
(Crewed missions)

Soyuz TMA-20M was a 2016 Russian Soyuz spaceflight to the International Space Station (ISS). [3] It transported three members of the Expedition 47 crew to the ISS. TMA-20M was the 129th flight of a Soyuz spacecraft. The crew consisted of a Russian commander and flight engineer, as well as an American flight engineer.

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It was the final flight of the Soyuz TMA-M design, being replaced by the Soyuz MS in 2016.

Crew

Position [4] Crew Member
Commander Flag of Russia.svg Aleksey Ovchinin, Roscosmos
Expedition 47
First spaceflight
Flight Engineer 1 Flag of Russia.svg Oleg Skripochka, Roscosmos
Expedition 47
Second spaceflight
Flight Engineer 2 Flag of the United States.svg Jeffrey Williams, NASA
Expedition 47
Fourth and last spaceflight

Backup crew

Position [5] Crew Member
Commander Flag of Russia.svg Sergey Ryzhikov, Roscosmos
Flight Engineer 1 Flag of Russia.svg Andrei Borisenko, Roscosmos
Flight Engineer 2 Flag of the United States.svg Shane Kimbrough, NASA

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