Soyuz TMA-09M

Launch, orbit & landing data: Designation  39170 / 13025A Launch date - time  28 May 2013 - 20:31 UT Launch site  Baikonur, LC1/5 Launch vehicle Soyuz-FG Soyuz designation 11F732A47 No.709 Mass (kg)   kg Docking date - time  29 May 2013 - 02:10 UT Target spacecraft/port  ISS/Rassvet Earth orbit on :    - Perigee / Apogee  ~350 km    - Inclination  51.6°    - Period   min Undocking date - time  01 Nov 2013 - 08:33 UT Redocking date - time  01 Nov 2013 - 08:54 UT Target spacecraft/port  ISS/Zvezda aft port Undocking date - time  10 Nov 2013 - 23:26 UT Deorbit burn date - time   Landing date - time  11 Nov 2013 - 02:49 UT Landing location  47°18'54,599"N,69°27'34,788"E Flight Duration (d:hr:min)  166d 06h 19m Nbr orbits  2581 Landing crew  launch crew

Launched Crew

Launch crew

Backup crew

Backup Crew

Mission Report:

• ISS Expedition 36/37.
• Soyuz TMA-09M was launched on May 28, 2013 carrying Soyuz Commander Fyodor Yurchikhin of the Russian Federal Space Agency, Flight Engineer Luca Parmitano of the European Space Agency, and Flight Engineer Karen Nyberg of NASA. Yurchikhin, Nyberg and Parmitano, will remain aboard the station until mid-November.
• Launched into a 194 x 227 km x 51.7 deg orbit, it manoeuvred several times and reached a 408 x 421 km orbit for final approach to ISS, docking with the Rassvet module at 0210 UTC May 29 after a 5 hr 39min flight, the fastest ascent to ISS to date.
• Soyuz TMA-09M, flown by Yurchikin, Nyberg and Parmitano, undocked from the Rassvet module at 0833 UTC Nov 1, 2013 and flew around the station at a distance of 200m to redock at 0854 UTC with the Zvezda aft port freed up by ATV-4.
• Soyuz TMA-09M undocked from the Zvezda module on Nov 10, 2013 at 2326 UTC and landed in Kazakhstan at 0249 UTC Nov 11, carrying astronauts Yurchikin, Nyberg and Parmitano. This was the end of exp.37.
  
  

  Landing cabine on parachute

  Flight Engineer Karen Nyberg, left, Commander Fyodor Yurchikhin, center holding the Olympic torch, and Flight Engineer Luca Parmitano sit in chairs outside the Soyuz capsule just minutes after they landed in Kazakhstan.

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