Soyuz TMA-15

Soyuz TMA-15

Mission type	ISS crew rotation
Operator	Roskosmos
COSPAR ID	2009-030A
SATCAT №	35010
Mission duration	188 days
Spacecraft properties
Spacecraft type	Soyuz-TMA 11F732
Manufacturer	RKK Energia
Crew
Crew size	3
Members	Roman Romanenko Frank De Winne Robert Thirsk
Callsign	Таймыр (Taymyr)[1] or Парус (Parus, meaning Sail)[1]
Start of mission
Launch date	27 May 2009, 10:34:53 UTC[2][3]
Rocket	Soyuz-FG
Launch site	Baikonur 1/5
End of mission
Landing date	December 1, 2009, 07:17 UTC[4]
Orbital parameters
Reference system	Geocentric
Regime	Low Earth
Perigee	151 kilometres (94 mi)
Apogee	414 kilometres (257 mi)
Inclination	51.6 degrees
Period	90.16 minutes
Epoch	28 May 2009[5]
Docking with ISS
Docking port	Zarya nadir
Docking date	29 May 2009, 12:43 UTC
Undocking date	1 December 2009, 03:56 UTC[6]
Time docked	6 months
From left to right; Thirsk, Romanenko and De Winne Soyuz programme (Manned missions) ← Soyuz TMA-14 Soyuz TMA-16 →

Soyuz TMA-15 was a manned 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 manned flight of a Soyuz spacecraft, since Soyuz 1 in 1967. The Soyuz spacecraft remain 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.

Crew

Position[7][8]	Crew Member
Commander	Roman Romanenko Expedition 20 First spaceflight
Flight Engineer 1	Frank De Winne, ESA Expedition 20 Second and last spaceflight
Flight Engineer 2	Robert Thirsk, CSA Expedition 20 Second and last spaceflight

Backup crew

Position	Cosmonaut
Commander	Dmitrij Kondratiyev
Flight Engineer 1	André Kuipers, ESA
Flight Engineer 2	Chris Hadfield, CSA

Mission highlights

The rollout of Soyuz TMA-15 on 25 May, with an American flag painted on the capsule

Soyuz TMA-15 was launched successfully by a Soyuz-FG carrier rocket from Site 1/5 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, at 10:34 UTC on 27 May 2009. It docked with the ISS at 12:34 UTC on 29 May 2009.

Roman Romanenko was the third second-generation space traveller. He was reported to have chosen Taymyr (Russian: Таймыр) as the mission callsign because it was the callsign on his father's first flight, Soyuz 26;^[1] however, the callsign Parus (Russian: Парус meaning Sail) was used for communications with the spacecraft.^[1] Robert Thirsk became the first Canadian to fly on a Soyuz; all previous Canadians in space had flown aboard Space Shuttles. Frank De Winne became the first European to be in command of the ISS.

The craft and crew returned to earth 1 December 2009.

References

1. 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. Retrieved February 27, 2008.
3. NASA. "Consolidated Launch Manifest". NASA. Retrieved March 28, 2009.
4. NASA (Nov 24, 2009). "NASA TV to Broadcast Space Station Crew Soyuz Landing Events". NASA. Retrieved December 1, 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.
7. NASA (Feb 11, 2008). "NASA Assigns Crews for STS-127 and Expedition 19 Missions". NASA. Retrieved February 11, 2008.
8. ESA (2008). "Frank De Winne prepares for new mission". ESA. Retrieved November 3, 2008.

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