Soyuz MS-03

Soyuz MS-03 was a Soyuz spaceflight launched on 17 November 2016.[1] It transported three members of the Expedition 50 crew to the International Space Station. MS-03 was the 132nd flight of a Soyuz spacecraft. The crew consisted of a Russian commander with American and French flight engineers.

Soyuz MS-03
Spacecraft properties
Soyuz MS-03 docked to ISS

Operator	Roskosmos
COSPAR ID	2016-070A
SATCAT no.	41864
Mission duration	196 days 17 hours 49 minutes


Spacecraft type	Soyuz-MS 11F747
Manufacturer	RKK Energia


Crew
Crew size	3 launching 2 landing
Members	Oleg Novitskiy Thomas Pesquet
Launching	Peggy Whitson
Callsign	Kazbek


Start of mission
Launch date	November 17, 2016 20:17 UTC
Rocket	Soyuz-FG
Launch site	Baikonur 1/5


End of mission
Landing date	June 2, 2017 14:10 UTC


Orbital parameters
Reference system	Geocentric
Regime	Low Earth


Docking with ISS
Docking port	Rassvet nadir
Docking date	November 19, 2016 21:58 UTC
Undocking date	June 2, 2017 10:47 UTC

(l-r) Pesquet, Whitson and Novitskiy Soyuz programme (Crewed missions)

Crew


Position[2]	Launching Crew Member	Landing Crew Member
Commander	Oleg Novitskiy, RSA Expedition 50 Second spaceflight
Flight Engineer 1	Thomas Pesquet, ESA Expedition 50 First spaceflight
Flight Engineer 2	Peggy A. Whitson, NASA Expedition 50 Third and last[3] spaceflight	N/A[4]

Backup crew


Position[5]	Crew Member
Commander	Fyodor Yurchikhin, RSA
Flight Engineer 1	Paolo Nespoli, ESA
Flight Engineer 2	Jack D. Fischer, NASA

Mission highlights

Soyuz MS-03 launched with Expedition 50/51 on November 17, 2016 20:17 UTC. Astronaut Peggy Whitson, at age 56, became the oldest woman to fly into space.[6][7]

Soyuz MS-03 docked at the International Space Station on November 19, 2016.[8]

On June 2, 2017, MS-03 undocked from the ISS, carrying Novitskiy and Pesquet back to Earth after 196 days in space. Whitson remained on the ISS and returned on Soyuz MS-04 on September 3, 2017.

References

http://russianspaceweb.com/soyuz-ms-03.html
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"Welcome Aboard! New Arrivals Make Six Expedition 50 Crew Members | Space Station". blogs.nasa.gov. Retrieved 2016-11-24.

Soyuz programme

Main topics

Past missions
(by spacecraft type)

Soyuz 7K-OK (1966–1970)	Kosmos 133† Soyuz 7K-OK No.1† (uncrewed) Kosmos 140 Soyuz 1† Kosmos 186 188 212 213 238 Soyuz 2 (uncrewed) 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
Soyuz 7K-L1 (1967–1970) (Zond lunar programme)	Kosmos 146 154† Zond 1967A† 1967B† Zond 4 1968A† 1968B† 5 6 1969A† Zond-M 1† M 2† Zond 7 8 9 10
Soyuz 7K-L1E (1969–1970)	Soyuz 7K-L1E No.1† Kosmos 382
Soyuz 7K-LOK (1971–1972)	Soyuz 7K-LOK No.1† No.2†
Soyuz 7K-OKS (1971)	Soyuz 10† 11†
Soyuz 7K-T (1972–1981)	Kosmos 496 573 Soyuz 12 Kosmos 613 Soyuz 13 Kosmos 656 Soyuz 14 15† 17 18a† 18 20 (uncrewed) 21 23† 24 25† 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 (uncrewed landing) 33† 34 (uncrewed launch) 35 36 37 38 39 40
Soyuz 7K-TM (1974–1976)	Kosmos 638 672 Soyuz 16 19 (Apollo-Soyuz) 22
Soyuz 7K-S (1974–1976)	Kosmos 670 772† 869†
Soyuz-T (1978–1986)	Kosmos 1001† 1074 Soyuz T-1 (uncrewed) T-2 T-3 T-4 T-5 T-6 T-7 T-8† T-9 T-10a† T-10 T-11 T-12 T-13 T-14 T-15
Soyuz-TM (1986–2002)	Soyuz TM-1 (uncrewed) TM-2 TM-3 TM-4 TM-5 TM-6 TM-7 TM-8 TM-9 TM-10 TM-11 TM-12 TM-13 TM-14 TM-15 TM-16 TM-17 TM-18 TM-19 TM-20 TM-21 TM-22 TM-23 TM-24 TM-25 TM-26 TM-27 TM-28 TM-29 TM-30 TM-31 TM-32 TM-33 TM-34
Soyuz-TMA (2002–2012)	Soyuz TMA-1 TMA-2 TMA-3 TMA-4 TMA-5 TMA-6 TMA-7 TMA-8 TMA-9 TMA-10 TMA-11 TMA-12 TMA-13 TMA-14 TMA-15 TMA-16 TMA-17 TMA-18 TMA-19 TMA-20 TMA-21 TMA-22
Soyuz-TMA-M (2010–2016)	Soyuz TMA-01M TMA-02M TMA-03M TMA-04M TMA-05M TMA-06M TMA-07M TMA-08M TMA-09M TMA-10M TMA-11M TMA-12M TMA-13M TMA-14M TMA-15M TMA-16M TMA-17M TMA-18M TMA-19M TMA-20M
Soyuz MS (2016–present)	Soyuz MS-01 MS-02 MS-03 MS-04 MS-05 MS-06 MS-07 MS-08 MS-09 MS-10† MS-11 MS-12 MS-13 MS-14 (uncrewed test flight) MS-15

Current missions

Soyuz MS-16

Future missions

2020
- Soyuz MS-17
2021
- MS-18
- MS-19
- MS-20

Uncrewed missions are designated as Kosmos instead of Soyuz; exceptions are noted "(uncrewed)".
The † sign designates failed missions. Italics designates cancelled missions.

Human spaceflights to the International Space Station
See also: {{ISS expeditions}}, {{Uncrewed ISS flights}}
1998–2004	1998 STS-88 1999 STS-96 2000 STS-101 106 92 Soyuz TM-31 STS-97 2001 STS-98 102 100 Soyuz TM-32 STS-104 105 Soyuz TM-33 STS-108 2002 STS-110 Soyuz TM-34 STS-111 112 Soyuz TMA-1 STS-113 2003 Soyuz TMA-2 TMA-3 2004 Soyuz TMA-4 TMA-5
2005–2009	2005 Soyuz TMA-6 STS-114 Soyuz TMA-7 2006 Soyuz TMA-8 STS-121 115 Soyuz TMA-9 STS-116 2007 Soyuz TMA-10 STS-117 118 Soyuz TMA-11 STS-120 2008 STS-122 123 Soyuz TMA-12 STS-124 Soyuz TMA-13 STS-126 2009 STS-119 Soyuz TMA-14 TMA-15 STS-127 128 Soyuz TMA-16 STS-129 Soyuz TMA-17
2010–2014	2010 STS-130 Soyuz TMA-18 STS-131 132 Soyuz TMA-19 TMA-01M TMA-20 2011 STS-133 Soyuz TMA-21 STS-134 Soyuz TMA-02M STS-135 Soyuz TMA-22 TMA-03M 2012 Soyuz TMA-04M TMA-05M TMA-06M TMA-07M 2013 Soyuz TMA-08M TMA-09M TMA-10M TMA-11M 2014 Soyuz TMA-12M TMA-13M TMA-14M TMA-15M
2015–2019	2015 Soyuz TMA-16M TMA-17M TMA-18M TMA-19M 2016 Soyuz TMA-20M MS-01 MS-02 MS-03 2017 Soyuz MS-04 MS-05 MS-06 MS-07 2018 Soyuz MS-08 MS-09 MS-10† MS-11 2019 Soyuz MS-12 MS-13 MS-15
Since 2020	2020 Soyuz MS-16 SpaceX Demo-2
Future	2020 SpaceX Crew-1 Soyuz MS-17 2021 Soyuz MS-18 Boeing Crewed Flight Test Boeing Starliner-1 Axiom Space Crew Dragon mission Soyuz MS-19 Soyuz MS-20
Individuals	List of ISS visitors crew
Vehicles	Past Space Shuttle Present Crew Dragon Soyuz Future Boeing CST-100 Starliner Orel
Ongoing spaceflights in bold Future spaceflights in italics † - mission failed to reach ISS

← 2015 · Orbital launches in 2016 · 2017 →
January	Belintersat-1 – Jason-3 – IRNSS-1E – Intelsat 29e – Eutelsat 9B
February	BeiDou M3-S – USA-266 / GPS IIF-12 – Kosmos 2514 / GLONASS-M 751 – Kwangmyŏngsŏng-4 – USA-267 / NROL-45 / Topaz-4 – Sentinel-3A – ASTRO-H / Hitomi · ChubuSat-2 · ChubuSat-3 · Horyu-4
March	SES-9 – Eutelsat 65 West A – IRNSS-1F – Resurs-P No.3 – ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter · Schiaparelli EDM – Soyuz TMA-20M – Cygnus CRS OA-6 (Diwata-1 · Flock-2e' × 20 · Lemur-2 × 9) – Kosmos 2515 / Bars-M No.2 – BeiDou IGSO-6 – Progress MS-02
April	Shijian-10 – Dragon CRS-8 · BEAM – Sentinel-1B · MICROSCOPE · AAUSAT-4 · e-st@r-II · OUFTI-1 – Mikhailo Lomonosov · Aist-2D · SamSat 218 – IRNSS-1G
May	JCSAT-14 – Yaogan 30 – Galileo FOC-10, FOC-11 – Thaicom 8 – Kosmos 2516 / GLONASS-M 753 – Ziyuan III-02 · ÑuSat 1, 2
June	Kosmos 2517 / Geo-IK-2 No.12 – Intelsat 31 / DLA-2 – USA-268 / NROL-37 – BeiDou G7 – Eutelsat 117 West B · ABS-2A – Echostar 18 · BRIsat – CartoSat-2C · BIROS · GHGsat · LAPAN-A3 · M3MSat · SkySat-C1 · Flock-2p × 12 · SathyabamaSat · Swayam – MUOS-5 – Chinese next-generation crew capsule scale model · Aolong-1 · Aoxiang Zhixing · Tiange-1 · Tiange-2 – Shijian 16-02
July	Soyuz MS-01 – Progress MS-03 – Dragon CRS-9 – USA-269 / NROL-61
August	Tiantong-1 01 – Gaofen-3 – JCSAT-16 – QUESS / Mozi / Micius · ³Cat-2 · LiXing-1 – USA-270 / GSSAP #3 · USA-271 / GSSAP #4 – Intelsat 33e · Intelsat 36 – Gaofen-10
September	Amos-6 – INSAT-3DR – OSIRIS-REx – Ofek-11 – Tiangong-2 – PeruSat-1 · SkySat × 4 – ScatSat-1 · Alsat-1B · Alsat-2B · Blacksky Pathfinder-1 · Alsat-1N · CanX-7 · PISat · Pratham
October	Sky Muster II · GSAT-18 – Shenzhou 11 – Cygnus CRS OA-5 (Lemur-2 × 4) – Soyuz MS-02
November	Himawari 9 – Shijian-17 – XPNAV 1 – WorldView-4 · CELTEE 1 · Prometheus-2 × 2 · AeroCube 8 × 2 · U2U · RAVAN – Yunhai-1 – Galileo FOC 7, 12, 13, 14 – Soyuz MS-03 – GOES-R – Tianlian I-04
December	Progress MS-04 – Göktürk-1 – Resourcesat-2A – WGS-8 – HTV-6 / Kounotori 6 · (EGG · TuPOD · UBAKUSAT · AOBA-VELOX · STARS · FREEDOM · ITF · Waseda-SAT · OSNSAT · Tancredo-1 · TechEDSat · Lemur-2 × 4) – Fengyun 4A – CYGNSS × 8 – EchoStar 19 – Arase / ERG – TanSat · Spark × 2 – Star One D1 · JCSAT-15 – SuperView / Gaojing-1 01, 02 · Bayi Kepu 1
Launches are separated by dashes ( – ), payloads by dots ( · ), multiple names for the same satellite by slashes ( / ). Cubesats are smaller. Crewed flights are bolded. Launch failures are in italics. Payloads deployed from other spacecraft are (enclosed in brackets).

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