Soyuz MS-12 was a Soyuz spaceflight which launched on 14 March 2019, carrying three members of the Expedition 59 crew to the International Space Station.[6] The mission ended on 3 October 2019, when Soyuz-MS-12 (carrying Ovchinin, Hague, and spaceflight participant Hazza Al Mansouri) successfully landed.

Soyuz MS-12
The launch of Soyuz MS-12
OperatorRoscosmos
COSPAR ID2019-013A Edit this at Wikidata
SATCAT no.44069Edit this on Wikidata
Mission duration202d 15h 46m
Distance travelled86.1 million miles.[1]
Orbits completed3,248 [2]
Spacecraft properties
SpacecraftSoyuz Spacecraft
Spacecraft typeSoyuz-MS 11F747
ManufacturerEnergia
Crew
Crew size3
MembersAleksey Ovchinin
Nick Hague
LaunchingChristina Koch
LandingHazza Al Mansouri
CallsignBurlak[3]
Start of mission
Launch date14 March 2019, 19:14:08 UTC[4][5]
RocketSoyuz-FG
Launch siteBaikonur, Pad 1/5
ContractorRKTs Progress
End of mission
Landing date3 October 2019, 10:59 UTC [2]
Landing site47°24'04.44"N, 69°34'14.1"E[2]
Orbital parameters
Reference systemGeocentric
RegimeLow Earth
Inclination51.6°[5]
Docking with ISS
Docking portRassvet nadir
Docking date15 March 2019, 01:01 UTC[2]
Undocking date3 October 2019, 07:37 UTC[2]
Time docked202d 6h 36m

(l-r) Koch, Ovchinin and Hague

Crew

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Position Launching Crew member Landing Crew member
Commander   Aleksey Ovchinin, Roscosmos
Expedition 59/60
Second[a] spaceflight
Flight Engineer 1   Nick Hague, NASA
Expedition 59/60
First[a] spaceflight
Flight Engineer 2/Spaceflight Participant   Christina Koch, NASA
Expedition 59/60/61
First spaceflight
  Hazza Al Mansouri, MBRSC
First spaceflight

[7][8][9]

Backup crew

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Position Crew member
Commander   Aleksandr Skvortsov, Roscosmos
Flight Engineer 1   Luca Parmitano, ESA
Flight Engineer 2   Andrew R. Morgan, NASA

Original crew

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Position Launching Crew member Landing Crew member
Commander   Oleg Skripochka, Roscosmos
Expedition 59
Third spaceflight
Flight Engineer 1   Christina Koch, NASA
Expedition 59
First spaceflight
Spaceflight Participant   Hazza Al Mansouri, MBRSC
First spaceflight
N/A

Original backup crew

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Position Crew member
Commander   Andrei Borisenko, Roscosmos
Flight Engineer 1   Jessica Meir, NASA
Flight Engineer 2   Sultan Al Neyadi

Soyuz MS-12 was scheduled to be the debut flight for Hazza Al Mansouri or Sultan Al Neyadi, the first two astronauts from the United Arab Emirates, but this was delayed to flight Soyuz MS-15 following the Soyuz MS-10 mission failure.[10]

Notes

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  1. ^ a b Not counting the aborted flight of Soyuz MS-10.

References

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  1. ^ NASA Astronaut Nick Hague, Crewmates Return Safely from International Space Station
  2. ^ a b c d e Soyuz MS-12
  3. ^ "Центр подготовки космонавтов им. Ю.А.Гагарина. Официальный Web-сайт". www.gctc.ru (in Russian).
  4. ^ Pietrobon, Steven (9 January 2019). "Russian Launch Manifest". Retrieved 9 January 2019.
  5. ^ a b "Spaceflight mission report: Soyuz MS-12". www.spacefacts.de.
  6. ^ Gebhardt, Chris (14 March 2019). "Soyuz MS-12 docks with the Space Station – NASASpaceFlight.com". NASASpaceflight.com.
  7. ^ "Unable to get to the ISS, the crew of the Soyuz will try again on March 1". Interfax.ru (in Russian). 26 November 2018. Retrieved 28 November 2018.
  8. ^ "Астронавт НАСА Хейг может отправиться в космос на год, сообщил источник". РИА Новости (in Russian). 13 January 2019.
  9. ^ Evans, Ben (8 March 2019). "On International Women's Day, NASA Looks Forward to First All-Female EVA in Late March; Koch Tapped for Longer ISS Stay". AmericaSpace.
  10. ^ Ryan, Patrick (27 January 2019). "UAE's astronauts in training try out zero gravity". The National. Retrieved 23 February 2019.