![]() Y. A. Gagarin launches atop a Soyuz-2.1a | |
Names | ISS 64S |
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Mission type | Crewed mission to ISS |
Operator | Roscosmos |
COSPAR ID | 2021-029A |
SATCAT no. | 48159 |
Mission duration | 190 days, 20 hours and 53 minutes |
Spacecraft properties | |
Spacecraft | Soyuz MS no. 748 Y. A. Gagarin [1][2] |
Spacecraft type | Soyuz MS |
Manufacturer | RSC Energia |
Crew | |
Crew size | 3 |
Launching | |
Landing | |
Callsign | Kazbek [3] |
Start of mission | |
Launch date | 9 April 2021, 07:42:41 UTC[4][5][6] |
Rocket | Soyuz-2.1a |
Launch site | Baikonur Cosmodrome, Site 31 |
Contractor | Progress |
End of mission | |
Landing date | 17 October 2021, 04:35:44 UTC |
Landing site | Kazakh Steppe, Kazakhstan |
Orbital parameters | |
Reference system | Geocentric orbit |
Regime | Low Earth orbit |
Inclination | 51.66° |
Docking with ISS | |
Docking port | Rassvet nadir |
Docking date | 9 April 2021, 11:05 UTC [6][3] |
Undocking date | 28 September 2021, 12:21 UTC |
Time docked | 172 days, 1 hour and 16 minutes |
Docking with ISS (Relocation) | |
Docking port | Nauka nadir |
Docking date | 28 September 2021, 13:04 UTC |
Undocking date | 17 October 2021, 01:14:00 UTC |
Time docked | 18 days, 12 hours and 10 minutes |
![]() Mark Vande Hei, Oleg Novitskiy and Pyotr Dubrov |
Soyuz MS-18 (spacecraft named "Y. A. Gagarin") was a Soyuz spaceflight that was launched on 9 April 2021 at 07:42:41 UTC.[4][7] It transported three members of the Expedition 64 crew to the International Space Station (ISS). Soyuz MS-18 was the 146th crewed flight of a Soyuz spacecraft. The launching crew consisted of a Russian commander, a Russian flight engineer, and an American flight engineer of NASA.[8][9][10][11] The spacecraft returned to Earth on 17 October 2021 following 191 days in space.[12] The flight served as the landing vehicle for the Russian film director Klim Shipenko and actress Yulia Peresild who launched to the ISS aboard Soyuz MS-19 and spent twelve days in space in order to film a movie, Vyzov (Russian: Вызов, lit. 'The Challenge').[13][14][15]
On 9 March 2021, Roscosmos announced that, at NASA's request, they would alter the existing flight plan to include Mark Vande Hei instead of Sergei Korsakov in the main crew and Anne McClain instead of Dmitriy Petelin in the backup one effectively extending NASA astronauts' flights on Soyuz spacecraft for at least another flight.[16][17] This arrangement was an in-kind service for the supplemental crew transportation service between NASA and Roscosmos, without any financial exchange between the two agencies.[18][19]
A Soyuz-2-1a rocket to launch the Soyuz MS-18 spacecraft (Vehicle No. 748, ISS mission 64S)...
Roscosmos cosmonauts Oleg Novitsky and Pyotr Dubrov, together with NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei, are set to lift off to the International Space Station on Russia's Soyuz MS-18 spacecraft, which has been named the "Y.A. Gagarin"
International Flight No. 321; Soyuz MS-18; Kazbek
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