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Soyuz TMA-16M

Soyuz TMA-16M approaches the ISS, 28 March 2015.
Operator	Roscosmos
COSPAR ID	2015-016A
SATCAT no.	40542
Mission duration	168d 5h 9m
Spacecraft properties
Spacecraft type	Soyuz-TMA 11F732A47 No.716
Manufacturer	Energia
Crew
Crew size	3
Members	Gennady Padalka
Launching	Mikhail Korniyenko Scott Kelly
Landing	Andreas Mogensen Aydyn Aimbetov
Callsign	Altair
Start of mission
Launch date	27 March 2015 19:42:57 UTC
Rocket	Soyuz-FG
Launch site	Baikonur 1/5
End of mission
Landing date	12 September 2015 00:51 UTC
Landing site	Kazakhstan
Orbital parameters
Reference system	Geocentric
Regime	Low Earth
Docking with ISS
Docking port	Poisk zenith
Docking date	28 March 2015 01:33 UTC
Undocking date	28 August 2015 03:12 UTC
Time docked	153d 1h 39m
Docking with ISS (Relocation)
Docking port	Zvezda aft
Docking date	28 August 2015 03:30 UTC
Undocking date	11 September 2015 21:29 UTC
Time docked	14d 17h 59m
(l-r) Kelly, Padalka, and KornienkoSoyuz programme (Crewed missions)← Soyuz TMA-15MSoyuz TMA-17M →

Soyuz TMA-16M was a 2015 flight to the International Space Station. It transported three members of the Expedition 43 crew to the station. TMA-16M was the 125th flight of a Soyuz spacecraft, the first having launched in 1967.

Scott Kelly and Mikhail Korniyenko performed the first one-year stay at the space station, returning on Soyuz TMA-18M.

Crew

Position	Launching Crew Member	Landing Crew Member
Commander	Gennady Padalka, Roscosmos Expedition 43/44 Fifth and last spaceflight
Flight Engineer 1	Mikhail Korniyenko, Roscosmos Expedition 43/44/45/46 Second and last spaceflight	Andreas Mogensen, ESA Iriss First spaceflight
Flight Engineer 2	Scott Kelly, NASA Expedition 43/44/45/46 Fourth and last spaceflight	Aidyn Aimbetov, KazCosmos Visiting First spaceflight

Backup crew

Position	Crew Member
Commander	Aleksey Ovchinin, Roscosmos
Flight Engineer 1	Sergey Volkov, Roscosmos
Flight Engineer 2	Jeffrey Williams, NASA

Mission highlights

Launch, rendezvous and docking

Soyuz TMA-16M was launched successfully aboard a Soyuz-FG rocket from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 19:42 UTC on Friday, 27 March 2015. The spacecraft reached low Earth orbit approximately nine minutes after lift-off. After executing rendezvous maneuvers, the Soyuz docked with the zenith port of the International Space Station's Poisk module approximately six hours after launch, at 01:33 UTC on 28 March. The docking occurred over Colombia.

Soyuz TMA-16M remained docked to the ISS—serving as an emergency escape vehicle–until 12 September 2015, when it departed and returned Padalka, Andreas Mogensen, and Aydyn Aimbetov to Earth. This vehicle was previously scheduled to carry Sarah Brightman as a space tourist, but Brightman's flight was announced to be cancelled in May 2015.

Relocation maneuver

Soyuz TMA-16M spacecraft was relocated from Poisk module to the orbiting laboratory's Zvezda module service module on 28 August 2015. This cleared the Poisk module for the arrival of Soyuz TMA-18M.

Undocking and return to Earth

Soyuz TMA-16M undocked from the ISS at 21:29 UTC on 11 September 2015, containing Gennady Padalka of Roscosmos and visiting crew members Andreas Mogensen of ESA (European Space Agency) and Aidyn Aimbetov of the Kazakh Space Agency. Following a deorbit burn, the Soyuz spacecraft's descent module reentered the Earth's atmosphere. The crew landed safely in Kazakhstan at 00:51 UTC on 12 September 2015, just over three hours after departing the ISS.

Gallery

• Soyuz TMA-16M rocket shortly after rollout.
• TMA-16M launches from the Baikonur Cosmodrome.
• Korniyenko (right), Padalka (center) and Kelly (left) inside the spacecraft prior to the relocation maneuver.
• Departure of Soyuz TMA-16M.
• Reentry of Soyuz TMA-16M as seen from the ISS.

References

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2. Clark, Stephen. "Live coverage: Crew ready to begin record-setting space mission". SpaceflightNow. Retrieved 27 March 2015.
3. ^ "Soyuz Relocation". NASA. Archived from the original on 3 September 2015. Retrieved 29 August 2015.
4. ^ NASA, Roscosmos Assign Veteran Crew to Yearlong Space Station Mission NASA, 26 November 2012.
5. Планируемые полёты (in Russian). astronaut.ru. Retrieved 30 June 2012.
6. Agencia Espacial Europea. "Andreas Mogensen's mission name links cosmos and Earth". Retrieved 22 June 2015.
7. ^ TASS (22 June 2015). "Kazakhstani cosmonaut to fly to ISS in September in place of British singer Brightman". Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 22 June 2015.
8. astronaut.ru (2013). "Орбитальные полёты".
9. "Soyuz TMA-16M kicks off historic one year expedition". NASASpaceflight.com. 27 March 2015. Retrieved 27 March 2015.
10. "One Year Crew Arrives at Station". NASA. 27 March 2015. Retrieved 28 March 2015.
11. "Brightman steps down from station flight". Spaceflightnow.com. Retrieved 28 May 2015.
12. "Soyuz Return to Earth". NASA. 11 September 2015. Retrieved 11 September 2015.

External links

• Media related to Soyuz TMA-16M at Wikimedia Commons

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