Soyuz MS-07

Soyuz MS-07 was a Soyuz spaceflight launched on 17 December 2017 07:21 UTC.[1] It transported three members of the Expedition 54 crew to the International Space Station. MS-07 was the 136th flight of a Soyuz spacecraft. The crew consisted of a Russian commander, Japanese doctor, and an American flight engineer.[3]

Soyuz MS-07
The launch of Soyuz MS-07
OperatorRoskosmos
COSPAR ID2017-081A
SATCAT no.43063
Mission duration168d 5h 18m
Spacecraft properties
Spacecraft typeSoyuz-MS 11F747
ManufacturerRKK Energia
Crew
Crew size3
MembersAnton Shkaplerov
Scott D. Tingle
Norishige Kanai
CallsignAstraeus
Start of mission
Launch date17 December 2017, 7:21 UTC[1]
RocketSoyuz-FG
Launch siteBaikonur Pad 1/5
End of mission
Landing date3 June 2018, 12:39 UTC
Landing siteKazakhstan
Orbital parameters
Reference systemGeocentric
RegimeLow Earth
Docking with ISS
Docking portRassvet nadir
Docking date19 December 2017, 08:39 UTC [2]
Undocking date3 June 2018, 09:16 UTC
Time docked166d 0h 37m

From left to right: Tingle, Shkaplerov and Kanai
Soyuz programme
(Crewed missions)
 

Crew

Position Crew member
Commander Anton Shkaplerov, RSA
Expedition 54
Third spaceflight
Flight Engineer 1 Scott D. Tingle, NASA
Expedition 54
First spaceflight
Flight Engineer 2 Norishige Kanai, JAXA
Expedition 54
First spaceflight

Backup crew

Position Crew member[4]
Commander Sergey Prokopyev, RSA
Flight Engineer 1 Alexander Gerst, ESA
Flight Engineer 2 Serena M. Auñón-Chancellor, NASA

Crew notes

Originnaly Russian cosmonaut Aleksandr Skvortsov was to have commanded the mission, although he was removed from the flight crew and pushed back to Soyuz MS-13 due to a temporary medical issue, Shkaplerov was brought off the backup crew and replaced him as Soyuz commander and ISS commander for Expedition 55[5].

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Launch in Baikonur

References

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