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Soyuz TMA-18M

2015 Russian crewed spaceflight to the ISS

Summary

2015 Russian crewed spaceflight to the ISS

Field	Value
name	Soyuz TMA-18M
image	Exp46 undock2.jpg
image_caption	Soyuz TMA-18M undocks from the ISS, 2 March 2016.
operator	Roskosmos
COSPAR_ID	2015-043A
SATCAT	40885
mission_duration
spacecraft_type	Soyuz-TMA 11F747 No.718
manufacturer	RKK Energia
launch_date	2 September 2015
04:37:42 UTC
launch_rocket	Soyuz-FG
landing_date	2 March 2016
04:25:27 UTC
crew_size	3
crew_members	Sergey Volkov
crew_launching	Andreas Mogensen
Aydyn Aimbetov
crew_landing	Mikhail Korniyenko
Scott Kelly
crew_callsign	Eridan
crew_photo	Soyuz TMA-18M crew members during training sessions.jpg
crew_photo_caption	(l-r) Mogensen, Volkov and Aimbetov
orbit_reference	Geocentric
orbit_regime	Low Earth
apsis	gee
docking_target	ISS
docking_type	dock
docking_port	Poisk
docking_date	4 September 2015
07:42:00 UTC
undocking_date	2 March 2016
01:02:30 UTC
time_docked	179 days, 17 hours, 20 minutes
previous_mission	Soyuz TMA-17M
next_mission	Soyuz TMA-19M
programme	Soyuz programme
(Crewed missions)

04:37:42 UTC 04:25:27 UTC Aydyn Aimbetov Scott Kelly 07:42:00 UTC 01:02:30 UTC

(Crewed missions)

Soyuz TMA-18M was a 2015 Soyuz spaceflight to the International Space Station. It provided the two twelve-months occupants (Scott Kelly and Mikhail Korniyenko) at the International Space Station with a fresh Soyuz capsule. TMA-18M was the 127th flight of a Soyuz spacecraft; the first having occurred in 1967. The ascent flight consisted of a Russian commander and two flight engineers from Denmark (ESA) and Kazakhstan respectively. The flight launched in September 2015 and returned to Earth in March 2016.

The Kazakh Aidyn Aimbetov is of the first Kazakh cosmonaut class, and the first to fly.

The descent crew was the same Russian commander and the two twelve-months occupants in March 2016. Two of the ascent crew members returned to Earth with Soyuz TMA-16M in September 2015.

Crew

Backup crew

Space tourist in the third seat

Originally, the third member should have been the British singer Sarah Brightman as a space tourist, but on May 13, 2015, she announced she had withdrawn from training.

Japanese entrepreneur Satoshi Takamatsu trained as Sarah Brightman's backup, but he withdrew from the flight as the art projects he had planned to carry out would not be ready by the September launch date. He stated he would try for a later flight when his projects were ready to fly.

Russian businessman Filaret Galchev was offered the seat, but he realized that he didn't have the time to prepare himself for the flight.

Roscosmos chose the Kazakh cosmonaut Aidyn Aimbetov as an alternative instead.

Landing

The spacecraft successfully landed on 2 March 2016 04:26 UTC, returning the ISS year long mission crew.

Later use

Today, the spent Soyuz TMA-18M capsule is on display at the Danish Museum of Science & Technology in Elsinore.

References

TASS. (22 June 2015). "Kazakhstani cosmonaut to fly to ISS in September in place of British singer Brightman".
(1 September 2015). "Soyuz TMA-18M launches on two day trip to ISS".
link. astronaut.ru
[http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Human_Spaceflight/Astronauts/Andreas_Mogensen_set_for_Soyuz_mission_to_Space_Station_in_2015 Andreas Mogensen set for Soyuz mission to Space Station in 2015]
ESA. "Andreas Mogensen's mission name links cosmos and Earth".
astronaut.ru. (2013). "Орбитальные полёты".
[https://www.reuters.com/article/us-space-sarahbrightman-idUSKBN0NY2KN20150513 Singer Sarah Brightman calls off flight to space station] 13 May 2015
Jeff Foust. (22 June 2015). "Kazakh Cosmonaut To Take Brightman's Place On Soyuz Flight". Space News.
Gebhardt, Chris. (2016-03-01). "Year In Space mission ends with Soyuz TMA-18M return". nasaspaceflight.com.
(12 April 2018). "Historic space capsule 'touches down' in Denmark".

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