Mission type | ISS crew rotation |
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Operator | Roskosmos |
COSPAR ID | 2009-030A |
SATCAT no. | 35010 |
Mission duration | 6 months and 4 days |
Spacecraft properties | |
Spacecraft type | Soyuz-TMA 11F732 |
Manufacturer | RKK Energia |
Crew | |
Crew size | 3 |
Members | Roman Romanenko Frank De Winne Robert Brent Thirsk |
Callsign | Таймыр (Taymyr)[1] or Парус (Parus, meaning Sail)[1] |
Start of mission | |
Launch date | 27 May 2009, 10:34:53[2][3] | UTC
Rocket | Soyuz-FG |
Launch site | Baikonur 1/5 |
End of mission | |
Landing date | 1 December 2009, 07:17[4] | UTC
Orbital parameters | |
Reference system | Geocentric |
Regime | Low Earth |
Perigee altitude | 151 kilometres (94 mi) |
Apogee altitude | 414 kilometres (257 mi) |
Inclination | 51.6 degrees |
Period | 90.16 minutes |
Epoch | 28 May 2009[5] |
Docking with ISS | |
Docking port | Zarya nadir |
Docking date | 29 May 2009 12:34 UTC |
Undocking date | 1 December 2009 03:56 UTC[6] |
Time docked | 185d 15h 22m |
![]() From left to right; Thirsk, Romanenko and De Winne Soyuz programme (Crewed missions) |
Soyuz TMA-15 was a crewed spaceflight to the International Space Station. Part of the Soyuz programme, it transported three members of the Expedition 20 crew to the space station. TMA-15 was the 102nd crewed flight of a Soyuz spacecraft, since Soyuz 1 in 1967. The Soyuz spacecraft remained docked to the space station during Expedition 20 and Expedition 21 as an emergency escape vehicle. The mission marked the start of six-person crew operations on the ISS.