Soyuz TMA-16M
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Soyuz TMA-16M approaches the ISS, 28 March 2015.
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| Operator | Roskosmos |
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| COSPAR ID | 2015-016A |
| SATCAT no. | 40542 |
| Spacecraft properties | |
| Spacecraft type | Soyuz-TMA 11F732A47 No.716 |
| Manufacturer | RKK Energia |
| Crew | |
| Crew size | 3 |
| Members | Gennady Padalka |
| Launching |
Mikhail Korniyenko Scott Kelly |
| Landing |
Andreas Mogensen Aydyn Aimbetov |
| Callsign | Altair |
| Start of mission | |
| Launch date | 27 March 2015 19:42:57 UTC |
| Rocket | Soyuz-FG |
| Launch site | Baikonur 1/5 |
| End of mission | |
| Landing date | 12 September 2015 00:51 UTC |
| Landing site | Kazakhstan |
| Orbital parameters | |
| Reference system | Geocentric |
| Regime | Low Earth |
| Docking with ISS | |
| Docking port | Poisk zenith, later Zvezda aft |
| Docking date | 28 March 2015 01:33 UTC |
| Undocking date | 11 September 2015 21:29 UTC |
| Time docked | 167 days, 19 hours, 56 minutes |
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 (l-r) Korniyenko, Padalka and Kelly
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Soyuz TMA-16M was a 2015 flight to the International Space Station. It transported three members of the Expedition 43 crew to the Station. TMA-16M was the 125th flight of a Soyuz spacecraft, the first having launched in 1967.
Scott Kelly and Mikhail Korniyenko performed the first one-year stay at the Space Station, returning in Soyuz TMA-18M.
Soyuz TMA-16M was launched successfully aboard a Soyuz-FG rocket from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 19:42 UTC on Friday, 27 March 2015. The spacecraft reached low Earth orbit approximately nine minutes after lift-off. After executing rendezvous maneuvers, the Soyuz docked with the zenith port of the International Space Station's Poisk module approximately six hours after launch, at 01:33 UTC on 28 March. The docking occurred over Colombia.
Soyuz TMA-16M remained docked to the ISS—serving as an emergency escape vehicle–until September 12 2015, when it departed and returned Padalka, Andreas Mogensen and Aydyn Aimbetov to Earth. This vehicle was previously scheduled to carry Sarah Brightman as a space tourist, but Brightman's flight was announced to be cancelled in May 2015.
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