Soyuz TMA-13

Soyuz TMA-13
Союз ТМА-13

Mission insignia

Mission statistics

Mission name

Soyuz TMA-13
Союз ТМА-13

Spacecraft type

Crew size

Titan

Launch pad

Gagarin's Start, Baikonur Cosmodrome

Launch date

12 October 2008 07:01 UTC^[1]^[2]

Landing

8 April 2009 07:16 UTC

Crew photo

From left to right: Richard Garriott, Yuri Lonchakov, Michael Fincke

Related missions

Previous mission	Subsequent mission
Soyuz TMA-12	Soyuz TMA-14

Soyuz TMA-13 (Russian: Союз ТМА-13, Union TMA-13) was a Soyuz mission to the International Space Station (ISS). The spacecraft was launched by a Soyuz-FG rocket at 07:01 GMT on 12 October 2008. It undocked at 02:55 GMT on 8 April 2009, performed a deorbit burn at 06:24, and landed at 07:16. By some counts, Soyuz TMA-13 is the 100th Soyuz spacecraft to be crewed.^[3]

1 Crew
- 1.1 Backup crew
2 Crew notes
3 References

Crew

Position	Launching Crew	Landing Crew
Commander	Yuri Lonchakov, RKA Expedition 18 Third spaceflight
Flight Engineer	Michael Fincke, NASA Expedition 18 Second spaceflight
Spaceflight Participant	Richard Garriott, SA^[5]^[6] First spaceflight Tourist	Charles Simonyi, SA^[4] Second spaceflight Tourist

Backup crew

Position	Launching Crew	Landing Crew
Commander	Gennady Padalka, RKA
Flight Engineer	Michael Barratt, NASA
Spaceflight Participant	Nik Halik, SA^[8] Tourist	Esther Dyson, SA^[7] Tourist

Crew notes

Richard Garriott flew on TMA-13 as a guest of the Russian government through a space tourist program run by Space Adventures.^[5] His role aboard the Soyuz is referred to as a Spaceflight Participant in English-language Russian Federal Space Agency documents, and NASA documents and press briefings.^[9]
Salizhan Sharipov had originally been assigned to command this Soyuz flight and participate in Expedition 18, but was replaced by Yuri Lonchakov.^[10]

References

^ Chris Bergin (2008). "Soyuz TMA-13 launches trio on journey to the ISS". NASA Spaceflight.com. http://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2008/10/soyuz-tma-13-set-to-launch-trio-to-iss/. Retrieved 12 October 2008.
^ The Associated Press (2008). "Rocket launches on space station voyage". International Herald Tribune. http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/10/12/asia/AS-Kazakhstan-Russia-Space.php. Retrieved 12 October 2008.
^ Robert Z. Pearlman (2008). "The 100th Soyuz flight that (maybe) isn't". collectSPACE. http://www.collectspace.com/news/news-101008a.html. Retrieved 12 October 2008.
^ Space Adventures’ Orbital Spaceflight Candidate, Charles Simonyi, Plans Spring 2009 Return Flight to the ISS
^ ^a ^b Mark Carreau (2008). "$30 million buys Austin resident a ride on Soyuz mission". The Houston Chronicle. http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/6052360.html. Retrieved 12 October 2008.
^ Space Adventures, Ltd. (2008). "Space Adventures Announces 1st Second Generation Astronaut". Space Adventures, Ltd.. http://www.spaceadventures.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=news.viewnews&newsid=554. Retrieved 12 October 2008.
^ "Space Adventures Announces Esther Dyson as Back-Up Crew Member for Spring 2009 Spaceflight Mission". Space Adventures. http://www.spaceadventures.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=news.viewnews&newsid=663. Retrieved 19 January 2011.
^ Jen Kelly (26 November 2007). "Space flight dream nears". Herald and Weekly Times. http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,22819650-2862,00.html. Retrieved 12 October 2008.
^ NASA (2008). "Expedition 18". NASA. http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/expeditions/expedition18/index.html. Retrieved 12 October 2008.
^ NASA (2008). "NASA Assigns Crews for STS-127 and Expedition 19 Missions". NASA. http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2008/feb/HQ_08052_Crew_Announcements.html. Retrieved 11 February 2008.

Soyuz programme

Soyuz 7K-OK (1967–1971)	1 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

Soyuz 7K-OKS (1971)	10 11

Soyuz 7K-T (1973–1981)	12 13 14 15 17 18a 18 21 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40

Soyuz 7K-TM (1974–1976)	16 19 22

Soyuz-T (1976–1986)	T-2 T-3 T-4 T-5 T-6 T-7 T-8 T-9 T-10-1 T-10 T-11 T-12 T-13 T-14 T-15

Soyuz-TM (1986–2003)	TM-2 TM-3 TM-4 TM-5 TM-6 TM-7 TM-8 TM-9 TM-10 TM-11 TM-12 TM-13 TM-14 TM-15 TM-16 TM-17 TM-18 TM-19 TM-20 TM-21 TM-22 TM-23 TM-24 TM-25 TM-26 TM-27 TM-28 TM-29 TM-30 TM-31 TM-32 TM-33 TM-34

Soyuz-TMA (2003–2012)	TMA-1 TMA-2 TMA-3 TMA-4 TMA-5 TMA-6 TMA-7 TMA-8 TMA-9 TMA-10 TMA-11 TMA-12 TMA-13 TMA-14 TMA-15 TMA-16 TMA-17 TMA-18 TMA-19 TMA-20 TMA-21

Soyuz-TMA-M (2010–)	TMA-01M TMA-02M

Current	TMA-22 TMA-03M

Planned	TMA-04M TMA-05M TMA-06M TMA-07M TMA-08M TMA-09M TMA-10M TMA-11M TMA-12M TMA-13M

Unmanned	Kosmos 133 Kosmos 140 Kosmos 186 Kosmos 188 Kosmos 212 Kosmos 213 Kosmos 238 Soyuz 2 Kosmos 379 Kosmos 396 Kosmos 398 Kosmos 434 Kosmos 496 Kosmos 573 Kosmos 613 Kosmos 638 Kosmos 656 Kosmos 670 Kosmos 672 Kosmos 772 Soyuz 20 Kosmos 869 Kosmos 1001 Kosmos 1074 Soyuz T-1 Soyuz TM-1

Human spaceflights to the International Space Station

Current	Soyuz TMA-22 Soyuz TMA-03M

Planned	Soyuz TMA-04M Soyuz TMA-05M Soyuz TMA-06M Soyuz TMA-07M Soyuz TMA-08M Soyuz TMA-09M Soyuz TMA-10M Soyuz TMA-11M Soyuz TMA-12M Soyuz TMA-13M Soyuz TMA-14M

Completed	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 Soyuz TMA-9 STS-116 Soyuz TMA-10 STS-117 STS-118 Soyuz TMA-11 STS-120 STS-122 STS-123 Soyuz TMA-12 STS-124 Soyuz TMA-13 STS-126 STS-119 Soyuz TMA-14 Soyuz TMA-15 STS-127 STS-128 Soyuz TMA-16 STS-129 Soyuz TMA-17 STS-130 Soyuz TMA-18 STS-131 STS-132 Soyuz TMA-19 Soyuz TMA-01M Soyuz TMA-20 STS-133 Soyuz TMA-21 STS-134 STS-135 Soyuz TMA-02M

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Soyuz TMA-13

Contents

Crew

Backup crew

Crew notes

References