Soyuz MS-12

Russia

Manned Flight nº: 318

Earth orbit Flight nº: 314

Russian manned Flight nº: 148

94th manned flight to ISS. Flight: ISS-**

Launch, orbit & landing data:

Designation	44069 / 19013A
Launch date - time	14 Mar 2019 - 19:14:08 UTC
Launch site	Baikonur, LC1/5
Launch vehicle	Soyuz-FG
Soyuz designation	11F732A48 nº742
Mass (kg)	kg
Docking date - time	15 Mar 2019 - 01:01:43 UTC
Target spacecraft/port	ISS/Rassvet
Earth orbit on :
- Perigee / Apogee	406 x 411 km
- Eccentricity
- Inclination	51.6°
- Period	min
Undocking date - time	03 Oct 2019 - 07:37 UTC
Deorbit burn date - time	03 Oct 2019 - 10:06 UTC
Landing date - time	03 Oct 2019 - 10:59 UTC
Landing location	near 47 24N 69 34E in Kazakhstan
Flight Duration (d:hr:min)	202d 15h 45m
Nbr orbits	3248
Landing crew	Launch crew: Ovchinin and Hague Al Mansoori (crew MS15)

Launched Crew

Nr.	Name	Job	Duration	Orbits
1	Ovchinin, Aleksei (Russia)	Commander	202d 15h 45m 13s	3248
2	Hague, Tyler (US)	Flight Engineer	202d 15h 45m 13s	3248
3	Koch, Christina (US)	Flight Engineer	328d 13h 58m 13s	5248

Note:

1)Hazza Al Mansouri from United Arab Emirates was scheduled to launch with Soyuz MS-12 and land a few days later with Soyuz MS-10. Due to the abort with contingency landing of Soyuz MS-10 his flight was cancelled. He and his backup Sultan Al Neyadi were planned to fly later on Soyuz MS-15 as Spaceflight Participant (UKP). He landed with Soyuz MS-12
2)Christina Koch landed on February 06, 2020 at 09:12:21 UTC with Soyuz MS-13.

Launch crew

Crew path

Backup Crew

Nr.	Name	Job
1	Skvortsov, Aleksandr (Russia)	Commander
3	Parmitano, Luca (Italy)	Flight Engineer
2	Morgan, Andrew (US)	Flight engineer

Mission details:

ISS Expedition 59/60.
Soyuz MS-12 was launched on Mar 14, 2019 carrying Aleksey Ovchinin, Nick Hague and Christina Koch.
Following an only six hours solo flight Soyuz MS-12 docked with the Rassvet module at 0101:43 UTC Mar 15, 2019. Aleksei Ovchinin, Nicklaus Hague and Christina Koch became the ISS Expedition 59 (together with ISS Expedition 58 crew members Oleg Kononenko, David Saint-Jacques and Anne McClain).
On Oct 3 at 0737 UTC Soyuz MS-12 undocked from the Rassvet module with astronauts Ovchinin, Hague and Al Mansoori. Soyuz fired its deorbit engine at 1006 UTC; the three modules separated at 1034 UTC, and the descent module landed near 47 24N 69 34E in Kazakhstan at 1059 UTC.

Soyuz MS-12 descent to earth.

Soyuz MS-12 after landing.

Astrophilately covers:

Launch cancel Baikonur 15.03.2019, registered mail.

Ref.: #7(JR763,770), #16 - update: 24.03.20

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