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Soyuz TMA-09M
Soyuz TMA-09M Departs Station.jpg
Soyuz TMA-09M departing from the ISS, 10 November 2013
Mission type ISS crew rotation
Operator Roskosmos
Mission duration 166 days, 6 hours, 18 minutes
Spacecraft properties
Spacecraft Soyuz 11F732A47 No.709
Spacecraft type Soyuz-TMA 11F747
Manufacturer RKK Energia
Crew
Crew size 3
Members Fyodor Yurchikhin
Karen L. Nyberg
Luca Parmitano
Callsign Olympus
Start of mission
Launch date 28 May 2013, 20:31:24 (2013-05-28UTC20:31:24Z) UTC
Rocket Soyuz-FG
Launch site Baikonur 1/5
End of mission
Landing date 11 November 2013, 02:49 (2013-11-11UTC02:50Z) UTC
Orbital parameters
Reference system Geocentric
Regime Low Earth
Perigee 408 kilometres (254 mi)
Apogee 422 kilometres (262 mi)
Inclination 51.65 degrees
Period 92.87 minutes
Epoch 29 May 2013, 02:47:30 UTC
Docking with ISS
Docking port Rassvet nadir
Docking date 29 May 2013, 02:10 UTC
Undocking date 1 November 2013, 23:26 UTC
Time docked 156 days
Docking with ISS
(Relocation)
Docking port Zvezda aft
Docking date 1 November 2013
08:33 UTC
Undocking date 10 November 2013
08:54 UTC
Time docked 9d 21m
Soyuz-TMA-09M-Mission-Patch.png Soyuz TMA-09M crew.jpg
(l-r) Yurchikhin, Nyberg and Parmitano
Soyuz programme
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Soyuz TMA-09M was a Russian Soyuz mission to the International Space Station. It transported three members of the Expedition 36 crew to the space station. The Soyuz remained docked to the space station during Expeditions 36 and 37 to serve as an emergency escape vehicle. The spacecraft landed on 11 November 2013, carrying the same three cosmonauts who were aboard for launch. The crew of Soyuz TMA-09M consisted of Fyodor Yurchikhin of Roskosmos, Karen Nyberg of NASA and Luca Parmitano of the European Space Agency.

Crew

Soyuz TMA-09M crew in front of St. Basil's Cathedral in Moscow
The Soyuz TMA-09M crew members conduct their ceremonial tour of Red Square on 8 May 2013.
Position Crew Member
Commander Russia Fyodor Yurchikhin, RSA
Expedition 36
Fourth spaceflight
Flight Engineer 1 United States Karen L. Nyberg, NASA
Expedition 36
Second and last spaceflight
Flight Engineer 2 Italy Luca Parmitano, ESA
Expedition 36
First spaceflight

Backup crew

Position Crew Member
Commander Russia Mikhail Tyurin, RSA
Flight Engineer 1 United States Richard Mastracchio, NASA
Flight Engineer 2 Japan Koichi Wakata, JAXA

Launch and docking

Soyuz TMA-09M was launched from Site 1/5 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Launch took place at 20:31:00 UTC on 28 May 2013, with a Soyuz-FG carrier rocket propelling the spacecraft into low Earth orbit. The spacecraft separated from the upper stage of the carrier rocket nine minutes after liftoff.

Docking with the ISS, using the nadir port of the Rassvet module, occurred at 02:10 UTC on 29 May, less than six hours after launch as part of a fast rendezvous profile designed to minimise the time the crew must spend in the cramped Soyuz spacecraft.

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