Soyuz MS-16

Russia

Manned Flight nº: 321

Earth orbit Flight nº: 317

Russia manned Flight nº: 151

97th manned flight to ISS. Flight: ISS-**

Launch, orbit & landing data:

Designation	45476 / 20023A
Launch date - time	09 April 2020 - 08:05:06 UTC
Launch site	Baikonur, LC31
Launch vehicle	Soyuz-2.1a (No. V15000-042)
Soyuz designation	11F732A48 nº745
Mass (kg)	kg
Docking date - time	09 April 2020 - 14:13:18 UTC
Target spacecraft/port	ISS/Zvezda
Earth orbit on :
- Perigee / Apogee	217 x 389 km
- Eccentricity
- Inclination	51.8°
- Period	min
Undocking date - time	21 Oct 2020 - 23:32:09 UTC
Deorbit burn date - time
Landing date - time	22 Oct 2020 - 02:54:06 UTC
Landing location	47°15′20.7" N, 69°42′07.6" E
Flight Duration (d:hr:min)	195d 18h 49m
Nbr orbits	3136
Landing crew	Launch crew

Launched Crew

Nr.	Name	Job	Duration	Orbits
1	Ivanishin, Anatoli (Roskosmos)	Commander	195d 18h 49m	3136
2	Vagner, Ivan (Roscosmos)	Flight Engineer	195d 18h 49m	3136
3	Cassidy, Christopher (US)	Flight Engineer	195d 18h 49m	3136

Launch crew: Cassidy, Ivanishin and Vagner.

Backup crew

Note: Due to medical reasons former prime crew members Nikolai Tikhonov and Andrei Babkin were replaced by the backup cosmonauts on February 19, 2020.

Backup Crew

Nr.	Name	Job
1	Ryzhikov, Sergei (Russia)	Commander
3	Babkin, Andrei (Russia)	Flight Engineer
2	Bowen, Stephen (US)	Flight engineer

Descriptions:

SOYUZ MS-16 is a Soyuz spaceflight that transported three members of the Expedition 62 crew to the International Space Station. MS-16 is the 745th flight of a Soyuz spacecraft.

Mission details:

Crew Soyuz MS-16 before module entrance. Crewmates Ivanishin (center) and Vagner (left) were originally members of the backup crew, but moved to the prime crew in Feb. 2020. Photo Credit: NASA

Crew Soyuz MS-16 before start. Credit photo: NASA

ISS Expedition 62/63.
The first Soyuz-2.1a booster to carry a human payload roars aloft from Site 31/6 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 1:05 p.m. local time (4:05 a.m. EDT, 08:05 UTC) on 9 April 2020 with NASA astronaut Chris Cassidy and Russian cosmonauts Anatoly Ivanishin and Ivan Vagner.
Following an only 6hr 8min solo flight Soyuz MS-16 docked to ISS at 10:13 a.m. EDT (14:13 UTC) while both spacecraft were flying about 260 miles above the Atlantic Ocean. Anatoli Ivanishin, Ivan Vagner and Christopher Cassidy became the ISS Exp. 63 (together with ISS Exp. 62 crew members Oleg Skripochka, Jessica Meir and Andrew Morgan). With the arrival Exp. 62 became a six-person-crew.
After a one-week handover to the new crew, Chris Cassidy took command of ISS.

Soyuz MS-16 landing on parachute. Photo Credit: NASA

Insite Soyuz MS-16 after landing. Credit photo: NASA

Crew MS-16 recovery. Photo Credit: NASA

Vagner is helping out of cabine. Credit photo: NASA

Astrophilately covers:

Launch cancel Baikonur 09.04.2020, registered mail.

Launch Soyuz MS-16 Exp 63, cancel Houston. Credit: #411

Ref.: #7(JR777), #16, #127, #411 - update: 23.12.20

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