Operator | Roskosmos | ||||
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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 |
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Launching | Anousheh Ansari | ||||
Landing | Charles Simonyi | ||||
Callsign | Vostok | ||||
Start of mission | |||||
Launch date | 18 September 2006, 04:08 | UTC||||
Rocket | Soyuz-FG | ||||
Launch site | Baikonur 1/5 | ||||
End of mission | |||||
Landing date | 21 April 2007, 12:31 | 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 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.