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Soyuz TMA-9

Soyuz TMA-9
Operator Roskosmos
COSPAR ID 2006-040A
Mission duration 215 days, 8 hours, 22 minutes
Spacecraft properties
Spacecraft type Soyuz-TMA 11F732
Manufacturer RKK Energia
Launch mass 7,270 kilograms (16,030 lb)
Crew
Crew size 3
Members Mikhail Tyurin
Michael López-Alegría
Launching Anousheh Ansari
Landing Charles Simonyi
Callsign Vostok
Start of mission
Launch date 18 September 2006, 04:08 (2006-09-18UTC04:08Z) UTC
Rocket Soyuz-FG
Launch site Baikonur 1/5
End of mission
Landing date 21 April 2007, 12:31 (2007-04-21UTC12:32Z) UTC
Orbital parameters
Reference system Geocentric
Regime Low Earth
Perigee 200 kilometres (120 mi)
Apogee 242 kilometres (150 mi)
Inclination 51.67 degrees
Period 88.64 minutes
Docking with ISS

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Soyuz programme
(Manned missions)
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Soyuz TMA-9 was a Soyuz mission to the International Space Station (ISS) launched by a Soyuz FG launch vehicle. It was a human spaceflight mission transporting personnel to and from the ISS. It launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome on 18 September 2006 at 08:09 MSD (04:09 UTC), docked with the ISS at 09:21 MSD (05:21 UTC) on 20 September, and returned to Earth on 21 April 2007. Soyuz TMA-9 transported two-thirds of ISS Expedition 14 to the space station along with one "spaceflight participant" who performed several experiments on behalf of the European Space Agency.

Daisuke Enomoto Was originally scheduled to be the spaceflight participant, but on 21 August 2006, he was determined to be unfit for the flight due to medical reasons, and replaced by Anousheh Ansari, his back-up crew member.

Soyuz TMA-9, known within the International Space Station program as ISS Soyuz 13, was the 32nd manned flight to the ISS. It is of note because for three days, from 18–21 September 2006, it marked the first time since before the Columbia accident that twelve humans have been in space simultaneously; three aboard the International Space Station (Expedition 13), three aboard Soyuz TMA-9, and six aboard Space Shuttle Atlantis, flying mission STS-115.


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