Soyuz MS-18

Launch, orbit & landing data: Designation  21029A Launch date - time  09 Apr 2021 - 07:42:41 UTC Launch site  Baikonur, LC31/6 Launch vehicle  Soyuz-2.1a (No. Kh15000-046) Soyuz designation  11F732A48 nº748 Mass (kg)   kg Docking date - time  09 Apr 2021 - 11:05:01 UTC Target spacecraft/port  ISS/(Zvezda?) Rassvet Earth orbit on :    - Perigee / Apogee  400 km    - Eccentricity      - Inclination  51.64°    - Period   min Undocking date - time  28 Sep 2021 - 12:21:36 UTC Docking date - time  28 Sep 2021 - 13:04:15 UTC Target spacecraft/port  ISS/Nauka Undocking date - time  17 Oct 2021 - 01:14:00 UTC Deorbit burn date - time   Landing date - time  17 Oct 2021 - 04:35:44 UTC Landing location  47°21′N, 69°38′E Flight Duration (d:hr:min)  190d 20h 53m Nbr orbits  3056 Landing crew  Novitsky, Shipenko and Peresild (crew MS-19)

Launched Crew

Launch crew: Novitsky, Dubrov & Vande Hei.

Backup crew.

Backup Crew

Descriptions:

• SOYUZ MS-18 is a Soyuz spaceflight that transported three members of the Expedition 67 crew to the International Space Station. Soyuz MS-18 is the 146th crewed flight of a Soyuz spacecraft.

Mission details:

• Launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome. The spacecraft was named after Yuri Gagarin. ISS Expedition 64 / 65.
• Due to medical reasons on January 11, 2021 Andrei Babkin was replaced by Oleg Artemyev in the backup crew.
• Following an only three-hours solo flight Soyuz MS-18 docked to ISS on April 09, 2021. Oleg Novitsky, Pyotr Dubrov and Mark Vande Hei became the ISS Expedition 64 (together with ISS Expedition 63 crew members Sergei Ryzhikov, Sergei Kud-Sverchkov and Kathleen Rubins along with SpaceX Crew-1 astronauts Michael Hopkins, Victor Glover, Soichi Noguchi and Shannon Walker). With the arrival of Soyuz MS-18 ISS Expedition 64 became a ten-person-crew.
• Soyuz MS-18 undocked from the Rassvet module at 1221:36 UTC Sep 28, 2021 and redocked with Nauka at 1304:15 UTC, inaugurating Nauka′s SSVP docking adapter.
• Soyuz MS-18 undocked from Nauka at 0114:00 UTC Oct 17, 2021 with Novitskiy, Shipenko and Peresild; the ship landed in Kazakhstan at 0435:44 UTC according to Roskosmos.

External links:

• AmericaSpace: 210409-Vande Hei, Russian Crewmates Head to Space Station
• Wikipedia: Soyuz MS-18 mission

Astrophilately covers:

Launch cancel Baikonur 09.04.2021, registered mail. Damage by Belgian Post office.