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Operator | Roskosmos |
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COSPAR ID | 2006-040A |
SATCAT no. | 29400![]() |
Mission duration | 215 days, 8 hours, 22 minutes |
Spacecraft properties | |
Spacecraft type | Soyuz-TMA 11F732 |
Manufacturer | RKK Energia |
Launch mass | 7,270 kilograms (16,030 lb) |
Crew | |
Crew size | 3 |
Members | Mikhail Tyurin Michael López-Alegría |
Launching | Anousheh Ansari |
Landing | Charles Simonyi |
Callsign | Vostok |
Start of mission | |
Launch date | 18 September 2006, 04:08 | UTC
Rocket | Soyuz-FG |
Launch site | Baikonur 1/5 |
End of mission | |
Landing date | 21 April 2007, 12:31 | UTC
Orbital parameters | |
Reference system | Geocentric |
Regime | Low Earth |
Perigee altitude | 200 kilometres (120 mi) |
Apogee altitude | 242 kilometres (150 mi) |
Inclination | 51.67 degrees |
Period | 88.64 minutes[1] |
Docking with ISS | |
Docking port | Zvezda aft |
Docking date | 20 September 2006 05:21 UTC |
Undocking date | 10 October 2006 19:14 UTC |
Time docked | 20d 13h 53m |
Docking with ISS (Relocation) | |
Docking port | Zarya nadir |
Docking date | 10 October 2006 19:34 UTC |
Undocking date | 29 March 2007 23:30 UTC |
Time docked | 170d 3h 56m |
Docking with ISS (Relocation) | |
Docking port | Zvezda aft |
Docking date | 29 March 2007 23:54 UTC |
Undocking date | 21 April 2007 09:11 UTC |
Time docked | 22d 9h 17m |
![]() Crew of Soyuz TMA-9: (l-r) López-Alegría, Ansari, Tyurin Soyuz programme (Crewed missions) |
Soyuz TMA-9 was a Soyuz mission to the International Space Station (ISS) launched by a Soyuz FG launch vehicle. It was a human spaceflight mission transporting personnel to and from the ISS. It launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome on 18 September 2006 at 08:09 MSD (04:09 UTC), docked with the ISS at 09:21 MSD (05:21 UTC) on 20 September, and returned to Earth on 21 April 2007. Soyuz TMA-9 transported two-thirds of ISS Expedition 14 to the space station along with one "spaceflight participant" who performed several experiments on behalf of the European Space Agency. [2]