Soyuz TMA-03M

Launch, orbit & landing data: Designation  38036 / 11078A Launch date - time  21 Dec 2011 - 13:16 UT Launch site  Baikonur, LC1/5 Launch vehicle Soyuz-FG (#xx) Soyuz designation 11F732 n° Mass (kg)   kg Docking date - time  23 Dec 2011 - 15:19 UT Target spacecraft/port  ISS/Rassvet module Earth orbit:    - Perigee / Apogee  382 x 412 km    - Inclination  51.6°    - Period  92.4 min Undocking date - time  01 Jul 2012 - 04:48 UT Deorbit burn date - time  01 Jul 2012 - 07:19 UT Landing date - time  01 Jul 2012 - 08:14:48 UT Landing location  47°20'56,3"N 69°32'47,4"E Flight Duration (d:hr:min)  192d 18h 58m Nbr orbits  3007 Landing crew  launch crew

Launched Crew

Launched crew: Pettit, Kononenko & Kuipers

Backup crew: Williams, Malenchenko & Hoshide

Backup Crew

Mission Report:

• Soyuz TMA-03M is transporting three members of the Expedition 30 crew to the International Space Station. TMA-03M is the 112th flight of a Soyuz spacecraft,
• Launch of the Soyuz TMA-03M spaceship from Baykonur with Oleg Kononenko, Andre Kuipers and Don Pettit on Dec 21, 2011 at 13:16 UT.
  Following a two day solo flight the Soyuz docked to ISS on Dec 23 2011 at 15:19 UT. Kononenko, Kuipers and Pettit became the ISS expedition 30 (together with ISS expedition 29 crew members Burbank, Shkaplerov and Ivanishin).
• On Jul 1, 2012 at 0448 UTC Soyuz TMA-03M undocked from Rassvet under the command of Kononenko with Kuipers and Pettit returned to Earth. Expedition 32 is beginning on ISS under the command of Padalka.
• The deorbit burn at 0719 UTC lowered the Soyuz's perigee into the atmosphere. The orbital module and service module (BO and PAO) separated from the descent module (SA) at 0747 UTC. All three objects reentered beginning at around 0751 UTC, with the BO and PAO burning up and the heat-shielded SA carrying the crew touching down in Kazakhstan at 0814:48 UTC.
  
  
  

  landing on parachute

  Crew after landing