Soyuz TMA-16M

Soyuz TMA -16M is a mission name for the planned flight of Russia's Soyuz spacecraft to the International Space Station. In the course of the ISS program of flight is called ISS AF -42S. It is the 42nd visit of a Soyuz spacecraft to the ISS and the 148th flight in Sojusprogramm be.

Crew

Start crew

  • Gennady Ivanovich Padalka ( fifth space flight ), Commander, ( Russia / Roskosmos )
  • Mikhail Borisovich Korniyenko ( second space flight), flight engineer, ( Russia / Roskosmos )
  • Scott Joseph Kelly ( fourth space flight), flight engineer, (USA / NASA)

Backup crew

  • Alexei Nikolaevich Ovchinin ( first space flight ), Commander, ( Russia / Roskosmos )
  • Sergei Alexandrovich Volkov ( third space flight), flight engineer, ( Russia / Roskosmos )
  • Jeffrey Nels Williams ( fourth space flight), flight engineer (NASA / USA)

Return crew

Mission Description

The mission brings three crew members of the ISS Expeditions 43 and 44, and two members of the ISS Expeditions 45 and 46 to the International Space Station. The Soyuz spacecraft Soyuz TMA- 14M triggers from a rescue capsule. On September 6, 2013 it was announced that the originally nominated commander Yuri Lonchakov has terminated at Roskosmos and changes due to financial reasons with the Russian gas giant Gazprom. His replacement was Gennady Padalka.

For the first time the operating time of crew members ( Mikhail Korniyenko and Scott Kelly) is extended to one year in order to study the effects of prolonged weightlessness better in terms of a manned Mars flight to the ISS. The resulting vacant space in the Soyuz spacecraft has been sold to the space tourist Sarah Brightman. You and ESA astronaut Andreas Mogensen will start with Soyuz TMA -18M to ISS short-term mission and land with this spaceship.

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