![]() Soyuz TMA-16M approaches the ISS, 28 March 2015. | |
Operator | Roskosmos |
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COSPAR ID | 2015-016A |
SATCAT no. | 40542 |
Mission duration | 168d 5h 9m |
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[1] |
Start of mission | |
Launch date | 27 March 2015 19:42:57 UTC[2] |
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 |
Docking date | 28 March 2015 01:33 UTC |
Undocking date | 28 August 2015 03:12 UTC |
Time docked | 153d 1h 39m |
Docking with ISS (Relocation) | |
Docking port | Zvezda aft |
Docking date | 28 August 2015 03:30 UTC[3] |
Undocking date | 11 September 2015 21:29 UTC |
Time docked | 14d 17h 59m |
![]() (l-r) Kelly, Padalka and Kornienko Soyuz programme (Crewed missions) |
Soyuz TMA-16M was a 2015 flight to the International Space Station.[4] 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,[4] returning in Soyuz TMA-18M.
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