Soyuz TMA-21

Soyuz TMA -21 mission is the designation for the flight of the Russian Soyuz spacecraft to the International Space Station (ISS). In the course of the ISS program of flight is called ISS AF - 26S. It was the 26th visit of a Soyuz spacecraft to the ISS and the 132nd flight in Sojusprogramm. In honor of the 50th anniversary of the first manned space flight the spaceship was named " Yuri Gagarin ".

Crew

  • Alexander Mikhailovich Samokutjajew ( first space flight), Commander, ( Russia / Roskosmos )
  • Andrei Ivanovich Borisenko ( first space flight), flight engineer, ( Russia / Roskosmos )
  • John Ronald Garan ( second space flight), flight engineer, (USA / NASA)

Backup crew

  • Anton Nikolaevich Shkaplerov ( first space flight), Commander, ( Russia / Roskosmos )
  • Anatoly Alexeyevich Ivanishin ( first space flight), flight engineer, ( Russia / Roskosmos )
  • Daniel Christopher Burbank ( third space flight), flight engineer, (USA / NASA)

Mission History

This mission brought three crew members of the ISS Expeditions 27 and 28 to the International Space Station. The Soyuz spacecraft Soyuz TMA -01M sparked off as a rescue capsule. The launch took place on 4 April 2011 at 22:18 UTC.

Originally, the return for 8 September 2011 was planned, but by the false start of a Soyuz rocket delayed the start of all other spaceships so that the flight management decided that the space station should be occupied for as long as possible with six people. However, more than one week extension was not possible because otherwise no landing in Kazakhstan would have been possible in daylight.

On September 16, 2011 at 00:38 UTC docked Soyuz TMA -21 from with Samokutjajew, Borisenko and Garan aboard. Thus began on the ISS Expedition 29 commander Michael Fossum as. The return capsule landed shortly thereafter in the steppe of Kazakhstan.

International Designator Baikonur Orbital inclination Soyuz TMA-20 Soyuz TMA-02M Vostok 1 Andrei Borisenko Anton Shkaplerov Anatoli Ivanishin Expedition 27 Expedition 28 Soyuz TMA-01M List of human spaceflights Kosmos 133 Kosmos 140 Kosmos 238 Kosmos 496 Kosmos 573 Kosmos 613 Kosmos 638 Kosmos 656 Kosmos 670 Kosmos 672 Kosmos 772 Kosmos 869 Kosmos 1001 Kosmos 1074 Soyuz 1 Soyuz 2A Soyuz 2 Soyuz 3 Soyuz 4 Soyuz 5 Soyuz 6 Soyuz 7 Soyuz 8 Soyuz 9 Soyuz 10 Soyuz 11 Soyuz 12 Soyuz 13 Soyuz 14 Soyuz 15 Soyuz 16 Soyuz 17 Soyuz 7K-T No.39 Soyuz 18 Soyuz 20 Soyuz 21 Soyuz 22 Soyuz 23 Soyuz 24 Soyuz 25 Soyuz 26 Soyuz 32 Soyuz 33 Soyuz 34 Soyuz 35 Soyuz T-1 Soyuz T-5 Soyuz T-7 Soyuz T-8 Soyuz 7K-ST No. 16L Soyuz T-10 Soyuz T-11 Soyuz T-12 Soyuz T-13 Soyuz T-14 Soyuz TM-1 Soyuz TM-2 Soyuz TM-3 Soyuz TM-4 Soyuz TM-5 Soyuz TM-6 Soyuz TM-7 Soyuz TM-8 Soyuz TM-9 Soyuz TM-10 Soyuz TM-11 Soyuz TM-12 Soyuz TM-14 Soyuz TM-15 Soyuz TM-16 Soyuz TM-17 Soyuz TM-18 Soyuz TM-19 Soyuz TM-20 Soyuz TM-21 Soyuz TM-22 Soyuz TM-23 Soyuz TM-24 Soyuz TM-25 Soyuz TM-26 Soyuz TM-27 Soyuz TM-28 Soyuz TM-29 Soyuz TM-30 Soyuz TM-31 Soyuz TM-32 Soyuz TM-33 Soyuz TM-34 Soyuz TMA-1 Soyuz TMA-2 Soyuz TMA-3 Soyuz TMA-4 Soyuz TMA-5 Soyuz TMA-6 Soyuz TMA-7 Soyuz TMA-8 Soyuz TMA-9 Soyuz TMA-10 Soyuz TMA-11 Soyuz TMA-12 Soyuz TMA-13 Soyuz TMA-14 Soyuz TMA-15 Soyuz TMA-16 Soyuz TMA-17 Soyuz TMA-18 Soyuz TMA-19 Soyuz TMA-22 Soyuz TMA-03M Soyuz TMA-04M Soyuz TMA-05M Soyuz TMA-06M Soyuz TMA-07M Soyuz TMA-08M Soyuz TMA-09M Soyuz TMA-10M Soyuz TMA-11M Soyuz TMA-12M Soyuz TMA-13M Soyuz TMA-14M Soyuz TMA-15M Soyuz TMA-16M Soyuz TMA-17M Soyuz TMA-18M Soyuz TMA-19M List of human spaceflights to the International Space Station STS-88 STS-96 STS-101 STS-106 STS-92 STS-97 STS-98 STS-102 STS-100 STS-104 STS-105 STS-108 STS-110 STS-111 STS-112 STS-113 STS-114 STS-121 STS-115 STS-116 STS-117 STS-118 STS-120 STS-122 STS-123 STS-124 STS-126 STS-119 STS-127 STS-128 STS-129 STS-130 STS-131 STS-132 STS-133 STS-134 STS-135 List of International Space Station expeditions Expedition 30 Expedition 31 Expedition 32 Expedition 33 Expedition 34 Expedition 35 Expedition 36 Expedition 37 Expedition 38 Expedition 39 Expedition 40 Expedition 41 Expedition 42 Expedition 43 Expedition 44
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