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Soyuz MS-17

Favor launches atop a Soyuz-2.1a
Names	ISS 63S
Mission type	Crewed mission to ISS
Operator	Roscosmos
Website	https://www.roscosmos.ru/
Mission duration	184 days, 23 hours, 10 minutes
Spacecraft properties
Spacecraft	Soyuz MS No.747 Favor
Manufacturer	RSC Energia
Crew
Members	Sergey Ryzhikov Sergey Kud-Sverchkov Kathleen Rubins
Start of mission
Launch date	14 October 2020, 05:45:04 UTC
Rocket	Soyuz-2.1a (s/n Х15000-045)
Launch site	Baikonur, Site 31
Contractor	RSC Progress
End of mission
Landing date	17 April 2021, 04:55 UTC
Landing site	Kazakh Steppe, Kazakhstan
Orbital parameters
Reference system	Geocentric orbit
Regime	Low Earth orbit
Inclination	51.66°
Docking with ISS
Docking port	Rassvet nadir
Docking date	14 October 2020, 08:48:47 UTC
Undocking date	19 March 2021, 16:38:27 UTC
Time docked	156 days, 7 hours and 49 minutes
Docking with ISS (Relocation)
Docking port	Poisk zenith
Docking date	19 March 2021, 17:12:35 UTC
Undocking date	17 April 2021, 01:34 UTC
Time docked	28 days, 8 hours and 21 minutes
Rubins, Ryzhikov, and Kud-Sverchkov Soyuz programme (crewed) ← Soyuz MS-16 Soyuz MS-18 →

Soyuz MS-17 was a Soyuz spaceflight that was launched on 14 October 2020. It transported three crew members of the Expedition 63/64 crew to the International Space Station. Soyuz MS-17 was the 145th crewed flight of a Soyuz spacecraft. The crew consisted of a Russian commander and a Russian and American flight engineer.

The mission marked the first use of a new "ultrafast" two-orbit rendezvous flight plan with the Soyuz, which saw Soyuz MS-17 arrive at the ISS within approximately three hours after the launch.

On 19 March 2021, the crew of Soyuz MS-17 boarded their spacecraft to relocate it from Rassvet to Poisk to make way for the arrival and docking of the Soyuz MS-18 spacecraft, which launched on 9 April 2021 carrying cosmonauts Oleg Novitsky, Pyotr Dubrov and the astronaut of NASA, Mark T. Vande Hei to the ISS ahead of a six-month stay. The two spacecraft had a nine-day handover period before Soyuz MS-17 departed. This is necessary to avoid de-crewing the Russian Orbital Segment (ROS) of the ISS since no Russian cosmonaut was present aboard SpaceX Crew-1.

Crew

Position	Crew member
Commander	Sergey Ryzhikov, Roscosmos Expedition 63/64 Second spaceflight
Flight Engineer 1	Sergey Kud-Sverchkov, Roscosmos Expedition 63/64 First spaceflight
Flight Engineer 2	Kathleen Rubins, NASA Expedition 63/64 Second spaceflight

Backup crew

Position	Crew member
Commander	Oleg Novitsky, Roscosmos
Flight Engineer 1	Pyotr Dubrov, Roscosmos
Flight Engineer 2	Mark T. Vande Hei, NASA

Reserve crew

Position	Crew member
Commander	Anton Shkaplerov, Roscosmos
Flight Engineer 1	Andrei Babkin, Roscosmos

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See also

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