Soyuz TMA-18

Launch, orbit & landing data: Designation  36505 / 10011A Launch date - time  02 Apr 2010 - 04:04 UT Launch site  Baikonur, LC1/5 Launch vehicle Soyuz-FG (#xx) Soyuz designation 11F732A17 nº 228 Mass (kg)  7250? kg kg Basic shape  Cyl+beehive+spheroid+2 panels Dimension (m)  7.5 long, 2.3 to 2.72 dia Earth orbit on Apr 2.17:    - Perigee / Apogee  193 x 242 km    - Eccentricity  0.004    - Inclination  51.65°    - Period  88.51 min Docking date - time  04 Apr 2010 - 05:24:50 UT Target spacecraft/port  ISS/Poisk module Docking orbit on Apr 4.53:    - Perigee / Apogee  342 x 350 km    - Eccentricity  0.0006    - Inclination  51.65°    - Period  91.47 min Undocking date - time  25 Sep 2010 - 02:03 UT Deorbit burn date - time  25 Sep 2010 - 04:31 UT Landing date - time  25 Sept 2010 - 05:23 UT Landing location  50°01'23,7" N, 66°57'59.2" E Flight Duration  176d 01h 19m Nbr orbits  2772 Landing crew  idem launch crew

Launched Crew

Backup Crew

Nr. Name Job 1  Samokutyayev, Aleksandr  Commander 2  Borisenko, Andrei Ivanovich  Flight engineer 3  Kelly, Scott Joseph  Flight Engineer

Mission Details:

• Soyuz TMA-18 was launched at 04:04 UTC on Apr 2, 2010 with commander Aleksandr Skvortsov, flight engineer 1 Mikhail Kornienko and flight engineer 2 Tracy Caldwell Dyson. The flight is ISS mission 22S; the spacecraft is production article 11F732A17 No. 228.
• Following a two day solo flight TMA-18 docked with the Poisk module at 05:25 on Apr 4. Skvortsov, Korniyenko and Caldwell-Dyson became the ISS expedition 23 (together with ISS expedition 22 crew members Kotov, Noguchi and Creamer).
• Soyuz TMA-17 remains docked to the Station at the Zarya nadir port, with the complex in a 342 x 350 km x 51.6 deg orbit following a Mar 24-25 reboost by the Progress M-04M tanker ship docked at the Zvezda port. Progress M-03M is docked to the Pirs module.
  
  

  Rollout Soyuz

  Soyuz TMA-18 on launchpad

  Soyuz TMA-18 launch

  
  
  
  

  Soyuz in orbit

  
  
• The Expedition 24 crew Skvortsov, Kornienko and Caldwell-Dyson transferred to Soyuz TMA-18 on Sep 24, 2010 and prepared to undock from the Poisk module, but the latches failed to work correctly and the landing was cancelled; the crew returned to the Station while troubleshooting continued. Undocking the next day was successful at 0203 UTC Sep 25; the deorbit burn at 0431 UTC put TMA-18 on a trajectory to intersect the Earth′s atmosphere. The spaceship landed in Kazakhstan at 0523 UTC.

Soyuz on parachute

Soyuz TMA-18 landing

Crew back on Earth

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