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Soyuz MS-01
Soyuz MS-01 docked to the ISS.jpg
Soyuz MS-01 docked to the ISS.
Mission type ISS crew transport
Operator Roscosmos
Mission duration 115 days 2 hours 22 minutes
Spacecraft properties
Spacecraft Soyuz MS
Spacecraft type Soyuz-MS 11F732A48
Manufacturer RKK Energia
Launch mass 7080 kg
Crew
Crew size 3
Members Anatoli Ivanishin
Takuya Onishi
Kathleen Rubins
Callsign Irkut
Start of mission
Launch date 7 July 2016, 01:36 UTC
Rocket Soyuz-FG
Launch site Baikonur, Site 31 ?
Contractor Progress Rocket Space Centre
End of mission
Landing date 30 October 2016,
03:58 UTC
Landing site Steppe of Kazakhstan
Orbital parameters
Reference system Geocentric orbit
Regime Low Earth orbit
Inclination 51.66°
Docking with ISS
Docking port Rassvet nadir
Docking date 9 July 2016, 04:12 UTC
Undocking date 30 October 2016 00:35 UTC
Time docked 113 days
Expedition 46 backup crew members in front of the Soyuz TMA spacecraft mock-up in Star City, Russia.jpg
(l-r) Ivanishin, Rubins and Onishi
Soyuz programme
(Crewed missions)
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Soyuz MS-01 was a 2016 Soyuz spaceflight to the International Space Station. Originally scheduled for launch in June 2016, the mission successfully lifted off from Kazakhstan on 7 July 2016. It transported three members of the Expedition 48 crew to the International Space Station. Soyuz MS-01 is the 130th flight of a Soyuz spacecraft, and the first with the new version Soyuz MS. The crew consisted of a Russian commander, a Japanese flight engineer, and an American flight engineer.

On 6 June 2016, the launch was rescheduled to July 2016 due to flaws in the control system that could affect the docking to the ISS. The spacecraft was successfully docked on 9 July 2016 and returned to Earth on 30 October 2016.

Crew

Position Crew Member
Commander Russia Anatoli Ivanishin, Roscosmos
Expedition 48
Second spaceflight
Flight Engineer 1 Japan Takuya Onishi, JAXA
Expedition 48
First spaceflight
Flight Engineer 2 United States Kathleen Rubins, NASA
Expedition 48
First spaceflight

Backup crew

Position Crew Member
Commander Russia Oleg Novitskiy, Roscosmos
Flight Engineer 1 France Thomas Pesquet, ESA
Flight Engineer 2 United States Peggy Whitson, NASA

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