Soyuz TMA-9
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| Mission name: | Soyuz TMA-9 |
| Call sign: | Vostok |
| Number of crew members: | 3 |
| Launch: | September 18, 2006 04:09 UTC Baikonur LC1 |
| Landing: | April 20, 2007 TBD UTC |
| Duration: | ~214 days |
| Number of orbits: | ? |
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Soyuz TMA-9 is a manned space mission transporting personnel to the International Space Station (ISS). It launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome on 18 September 2006 at 08:09 MSD (04:09 UTC), docked with the ISS at 09:21 MSD (05:21 UTC) on 20 September 2006, and is expected to return to Earth on 20 March 2007. Soyuz TMA-9 transported two-thirds of ISS Expedition 14 to the space station along with one "spaceflight participant" who will perform several expriments on behalf of the European Space Agency. [1]
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[edit] Crew
[edit] Launched and will land ISS Expedition 14 crew:
- Mikhail Tyurin (2) Commander -
Russia - Michael Lopez-Alegria (4) Flight Engineer -
United States
[edit] Launched:
- Anousheh Ansari (1) Spaceflight Participant -
Iran / United States
Daisuke Enomoto was judged unfit for this flight for medical reasons on August 21, 2006, and replaced by Anousheh Ansari, his back-up crew member.
[edit] Will land:
- Charles Simonyi (1) Spaceflight Participant -
Hungary / United States
The Spaceflight Participant landed by this mission will have launched with Soyuz TMA-10.
Number in parentheses indicates total spaceflights for each individual, including this one.
[edit] Mission parameters
- Mass: 7,270 kg
- Perigee: 200 km
- Apogee: 242 km
- Inclination: 51.67 degrees
- Orbital period: 88.64 minutes[2]
[edit] Docking with ISS
- Docked to ISS: September 20, 2006, 05:21 UTC (to aft port of Zvezda)
- Undocking from ISS: October 10, 2006 19:14 UTC (from aft port of Zvezda)
- Docking to ISS: October 10, 2006 19:34 UTC (to nadir port of Zarya)
- Undocking from ISS: April 20, 2007 (from nadir port of Zarya) (planned)
[edit] Mission highlights
Soyuz TMA-9, known within the International Space Station program as ISS Soyuz 13, is the 32nd manned flight to the ISS. It is of note because for three days, from 18-21 September 2006, it marked the first time since before the Columbia accident that twelve humans have been in space simultaneously; three aboard the International Space Station (Expedition 13), three aboard Soyuz TMA-9, and six aboard Space Shuttle Atlantis, flying mission STS-115.
The capsule successfully launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on a Soyuz Rocket at 09:10 MDS (04:10 UTC) on Monday 18 September, and successfully docked with the ISS on Wednesday 20 September to begin a six-month stay on the orbiting laboratory.
Anousheh Ansari, the Spaceflight Participant launched by TMA-9, has returned to Earth safely alongside Commander Pavel Vinogradov and Flight Engineer Jeffrey Williams of the Expedition 13 crew aboard Soyuz TMA-8 on 29 September 2006 at 01:13 UTC. Undocking from the ISS took place at 21:53 UTC on 28 September. Lopez-Alegria and Tyurin will land in TMA-9 on 19 March 2007, after a six-month stay on the station.
[edit] References
- ^ "ESA experiments with spaceflight participant Ansari to ISS". Retrieved on 2006-09-22.
- ^ Soyuz TMA-9 Launch. Retrieved on 2006-09-23.
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| Previous mission: Soyuz TMA-8 |
Soyuz TMA-9 |
Next mission: Soyuz TMA-10 |
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| STS-88 | STS-96 | STS-101 | STS-106 | STS-92 | Soyuz TM-31 | STS-97 | STS-98 | STS-102 | STS-100 | Soyuz TM-32 | STS-104 | STS-105 | Soyuz TM-33 | STS-108 | STS-110 | Soyuz TM-34 | STS-111 | STS-112 | Soyuz TMA-1 | STS-113 | Soyuz TMA-2 | Soyuz TMA-3 | Soyuz TMA-4 | Soyuz TMA-5 | Soyuz TMA-6 | STS-114 | Soyuz TMA-7 | Soyuz TMA-8 | STS-121 | STS-115 | |
| In progress: Soyuz TMA-9 | STS-116 | |
| Upcoming: STS-117 | Soyuz TMA-10 | STS-118 | STS-120 | |
