Soyuz TMA-17M

Soyuz TMA-17M
Soyuz TMA-17M flying above Typhoon Soudelor while docked to the ISS
OperatorRoscosmos
COSPAR ID2015-035A Edit this at Wikidata
SATCAT no.40744
Mission duration141 days, 16 hours and 9 minutes
Spacecraft properties
Spacecraft typeSoyuz-TMA 11F732A47 No.717
ManufacturerEnergia
Crew
Crew size3
MembersOleg Kononenko
Kimiya Yui
Kjell N. Lindgren
Start of mission
Launch date22 July 2015
21:02:45 UTC
RocketSoyuz-FG
Launch siteBaikonur 1/5
End of mission
Landing date11 December 2015
13:12 UTC
Landing siteKazakhstan
Orbital parameters
Reference systemGeocentric
RegimeLow Earth
Docking with ISS
Docking portRassvet nadir
Docking date23 July 2015
02:45 UTC
Undocking date11 December 2015
09:47 UTC
Time docked141 days, 7 hours, 2 minutes

(l-r) Kononenko, Lindgren and Yui
Soyuz programme
(Crewed missions)

Soyuz TMA-17M was a 2015 flight to the International Space Station. It transported three members of the Expedition 44 crew to the International Space Station. TMA-17M was the 126th flight of a Soyuz spacecraft; the first having occurred in 1967. The crew consisted of a Russian commander accompanied by Japanese and American astronauts. The capsule remained docked to the space station for about five months until the scheduled departure of Expedition 45 in December 2015. Soyuz TMA-17M landed safely on the steppes of Kazakhstan on 11 December, 2015, in a rare night landing.