Soyuz TMA-04M

Launch, orbit & landing data: Designation  38291 / 12022A Launch date - time  15 May 2012 - 03:01 UT Launch site  Baikonur, LC1/5 Launch vehicle Soyuz-FG (#--) Soyuz designation 11F732A47 nº 705 Mass (kg)   kg Docking date - time  17 May 2012 - 04:36 UT Target spacecraft/port  ISS/Poisk module Earth orbit on:    - Perigee / Apogee   km    - Inclination  °    - Period   min Undocking date - time  16 Sept 2012 - 23:09 UT Deorbit burn date - time  17 Sept 2012 - 01:56 UT Landing date - time  17 Sept 2012 - 0252:35 UT Landing location  50°59'11.6°N, 67°15'22.2°E Kazakhstan Flight Duration (d:hr:min)  124d 23h 52m Nbr orbits  1946 Landing crew  =launch crew

Launched Crew

Launch crew: Acaba, Padalka & Revin

Backup crew: Novitsky, Tarelkin & Ford

Backup Crew

Mission Report:

• ISS Expedition 31.
• Feb 26: Soyuz TMA-04M (11F732A47 No. 705) has been delivered to Baikonur cosmodrome.
  
  
  
  
• Feb 2012: The Soyuz TMA-04M piloted spaceship has failed pre-launch tests in the altitude test chamber resulting in a likely postponement of the rocket launch, from March 30, to late April or early May from the Baikonur spaceport.
• At 0301 UTC on May 15, 2012 Soyuz TMA-04M (spacecraft 11F732A47 No. 705) was launched from Baikonur on a Soyuz-FG rocket carrying Gennadiy Padalka, Sergey Revin and Joe Acaba. It docked with the ISS' Poisk module on May 17 at 0436 UTC.
• On Sep 16, 2012 at 2309 UTC Soyuz TMA-04M undocked from Poisk carrying Expedition 32 crew Gennadiy Padalka, Sergey Revin and Joe Acaba, marking the beginning of ISS Expedition 33 under the command of NASA's Capt. Sunita Lyn Williams, USN, with crewmembers Flight Engineer-4 Yuriy Malenchenko (Roskosmos) and Flight Engineer-6 Akihiko Hoshide (JAXA).
• Soyuz TMA-04M flew for 2h 47 min in a 403 x 426 km orbit, and then at 0156 UTC on Sep 17 fired its deorbit engine to enter a 13 x 425 km entry orbit. The three Soyuz modules separated at 0225 UTC. At around 0230 UTC the BO and PAO (orbital and service modules) burnt up in the atmosphere as the SA (descent module) performed a controlled entry.
  The spacecraft landed in Kazakhstan at 02:53 UTC.
  
  

  back on parachute

  landing on parachute

  
  
  

  Cabine after landing

  Crew after landing

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