Soyuz TMA-22

Launch, orbit & landing data: Designation  37877 / 11067A Launch date - time  14 Nov 2011 - 04:14 UT Launch site  Baikonur, LC1/5 Launch vehicle Soyuz-FG (#xx) Soyuz designation 11F732 nº Mass (kg)   kg Docking date - time  16 Nov 2011 - 05:24 UT Target spacecraft/port  ISS/Poisk module Earth orbit on :    - Perigee / Apogee   km    - Inclination  °    - Period   min Undocking date - time  27 April 2012 - 08:18 UT Deorbit burn date - time   Landing date - time  27 April 2012 - 11:45 UT Landing location  50°57'20,40"N, 67°09'51,80"E Flight Duration (d:hr:min)  165d 07h 31m Nbr orbits  2580 Landing crew  launch crew

Launched Crew

Launched crew: Burbank, Shkaplerov & Ivanishin

Backup crew: Acaba, Padalka & Revin

Backup Crew

Mission Report:

• ISS Expedition 29.
• After exhaustive work to recover from a dramatic August launch failure, a Russian Soyuz spacecraft carrying two cosmonauts (commander Anton Shkaplerov and flight engineers Anatoliy Ivanishin) and a NASA astronaut (Dan Burbank) blasted off in blizzard-like conditions late Sunday on a delayed flight to the International Space Station, the program's first manned launching since the U.S. shuttle was retired.
• Amid steady snow, the Soyuz TMA-22 spacecraft roared to life at 11:14:03 p.m. EST (GMT-5; 10:14:03 a.m. Monday local time) and quickly climbed away from its frigid launch pad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Trailing a brilliant jet of flame from its core stage and strap-on boosters, the rocket disappeared into low clouds a few moments after liftoff.
• A few minutes later, the third stage ignited and continued boosting the Soyuz capsule to orbital velocity. A third stage failure in August led to the destruction of an unmanned Progress supply ship, but it was smooth sailing Sunday and about nine minutes after liftoff, the capsule separated from the booster rocket's upper stage and its two solar arrays unfolded as planned.
• Following a two day solo flight the Soyuz docked to ISS/Poisk module at 0524 UTC on 16.11.2011. Shkaplerov, Ivanishin and Burbank became the ISS expedition 29 (together with ISS expedition 28 crew members Volkov, Furukawa and Fossum).
• Soyuz TMA-22 undocked from the Poisk module at 0818 UTC on Apr 27, 2012 with Soyuz commander Anton Shkaplerov and flight engineers Anatoliy Ivanishin and Dan Burbank. The spacecraft landed in Kazakhstan at 1145 UTC.
• The undocking of Soyuz TMA-22 marked the end of ISS Expedition 30.
  
  

  Recovery capsule

  Crew after landing

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