Soyuz TMA-15

Soyuz TMA-15
Mission typeISS crew rotation
OperatorRoscosmos
COSPAR ID2009-030A Edit this at Wikidata
SATCAT no.35010
Mission duration6 months and 4 days
Spacecraft properties
Spacecraft typeSoyuz-TMA 11F732
ManufacturerEnergia
Crew
Crew size3
MembersRoman Romanenko
Frank De Winne
Robert Brent Thirsk
CallsignТаймыр (Taymyr)[1] or
Парус (Parus, meaning Sail)[1]
Start of mission
Launch date27 May 2009, 10:34:53 (2009-05-27UTC10:34:53Z) UTC[2][3]
RocketSoyuz-FG
Launch siteBaikonur 1/5
End of mission
Landing date1 December 2009, 07:17 (2009-12-01UTC07:18Z) UTC[4]
Orbital parameters
Reference systemGeocentric
RegimeLow Earth
Perigee altitude151 kilometres (94 mi)
Apogee altitude414 kilometres (257 mi)
Inclination51.6 degrees
Period90.16 minutes
Epoch28 May 2009[5]
Docking with ISS
Docking portZarya nadir
Docking date29 May 2009
12:34 UTC
Undocking date1 December 2009
03:56 UTC[6]
Time docked185d 15h 22m

From left to right; Thirsk, Romanenko and De Winne
Soyuz programme
(Crewed missions)

Soyuz TMA-15 was a crewed spaceflight to the International Space Station. Part of the Soyuz programme, it transported three members of the Expedition 20 crew to the space station. TMA-15 was the 102nd crewed flight of a Soyuz spacecraft, since Soyuz 1 in 1967. The Soyuz spacecraft remained docked to the space station during Expedition 20 and Expedition 21 as an emergency escape vehicle. The mission marked the start of six-person crew operations on the ISS.

  1. ^ a b NASA TV coverage of the launch of Soyuz TMA-15, 2009-05-27
  2. ^ CSA (2008). "Canadian astronauts Julie Payette and Robert Thirsk to go on space missions in 2009". CSA. Archived from the original on 14 February 2009. Retrieved 27 February 2008.
  3. ^ NASA. "Consolidated Launch Manifest". NASA. Retrieved 28 March 2009.
  4. ^ NASA (24 November 2009). "NASA TV to Broadcast Space Station Crew Soyuz Landing Events". NASA. Retrieved 1 December 2009.
  5. ^ McDowell, Jonathan. "Satellite Catalog". Jonathan's Space Page. Retrieved 6 January 2014.
  6. ^ Zak, Anatoly. "Mission of Soyuz TMA-15". RussianSpaceWeb. Retrieved 6 January 2014.