Soyuz TMA-11

Launch, orbit & landing data: Designation  32256 / 07045A Launch date - time  10 Oct 2007 - 13:22 UT Launch site  Baikonur, LC1/5 Launch vehicle Soyuz-FG (#xx) Soyuz designation 11F732 nº221 Mass (kg)   kg Call Sign   Docking date - time  12 Oct 2007 - 14:50 UT Target spacecraft/port  ISS/Zarya nadir port Earth orbit on :    - Perigee / Apogee  340 x 344 km    - Inclination  51.64°    - Period  91.38 min Undocking date - time  19 Apr 2008 - 05:06 UT Deorbit burn date - time  19 Apr 2008 - 07:40 UT Landing date - time  19 Apr 2008 - 08:30 UT Landing location  50°31' N, 61°07' E 470km short of the target Flight Duration (d:hr:min)  191d 19h 07m Nbr orbits  3028 Landing crew  Malenchenko & Whitson  Yi Soyeon (TMA-12)

Launched Crew

Backup Crew

Mission Report:

• 01 Oct 2007: Assembly of Soyuz TMA-11.
  
  
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• Soyuz TMA-11 was launched at 1322 UTC on Oct 10, 2007. The spaceship is production number 221, and flies the ISS 15S mission carrying both the Expedition 16 long stay crew and the EP-13 visiting crew to the Space Station.
• They docked with the Station's Zarya module at 1450 UTC on Oct 12. Aboard the station, Whitson takes command as Expedition 16 commander, with Malenchenko as flight engineer, together with second flight engineer Clay Anderson who has been aboard since August. Expedition 15 crew Fyodor Yurchikin and Oleg Kotov will return to Earth on Soyuz TMA-10 together with EP-13 crewmember Shukor Al Masrie.
  
  

  Departure of Soyuz TMA-11

  
  
• Malenchenko, Whitson and Yi undocked from the Zarya module aboard Soyuz TMA-11 at 0506 UTC on Apr 19. The deorbit burn was at 0740 UTC and following an anomalous (partly ballistic) reentry they landed in Kazakstan 470 km short of the target point at around 0829 UTC. There may have been a separation problem between the descent and propulsion modules. According to the Novosti Kosmonavtiki forum the actual landing site was at 50°31' N 61°07' E.

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