Soyuz TMA-20M

Soyuz TMA-20M
Soyuz TMA-20M spacecraft approaches the ISS
Operator Roskosmos
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 RKK Energia
Crew
Crew size 3
Members Aleksey Ovchinin
Oleg Skripochka
Jeffrey 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
(Manned missions)

Soyuz TMA-20M was a 2016 Soyuz was a 2016 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.

It was the final Soyuz TMA-M, which was replaced by the upgraded Soyuz-MS in 2016.

Crew

Position[4] Crew Member
Commander Russia Aleksey Ovchinin, RSA
Expedition 47
First spaceflight
Flight Engineer 1 Russia Oleg Skripochka, RSA
Expedition 47
Second spaceflight
Flight Engineer 2 United States Jeffrey Williams, NASA
Expedition 47
Fourth spaceflight

Backup crew

Position[5] Crew Member
Commander Russia Sergey Ryzhikov, RSA
Flight Engineer 1 Russia Andrei Borisenko, RSA
Flight Engineer 2 United States Shane Kimbrough, NASA

References

  1. "Soyuz-TMA 01M - 20M (7K-STMA, 11F747)". Gunter's Space Page. Retrieved 19 March 2016.
  2. "Launch, Docking Returns International Space Station Crew to Full Strength". NASA. Retrieved 19 March 2016.
  3. "Russian Launch Manifest". Retrieved 13 March 2014.
  4. Планируемые полёты (in Russian). astronaut.ru. Retrieved 13 March 2014.
  5. astronaut.ru (2013). "Орбитальные полёты".
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