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Soyuz MS-03
ISS-50 Soyuz MS-03 docked to Rassvet over Florida.jpg
Soyuz MS-03 docked to International Space Station (ISS).
Mission type ISS crew transport
Operator Roskosmos
Mission duration 196 days 17 hours 49 minutes
Spacecraft properties
Spacecraft Soyuz MS
Spacecraft type Soyuz MS 11F732A48
Manufacturer RKK Energia
Launch mass 7080 kg
Crew
Crew size 3 (launching)
2 (landing)
Members Oleg Novitsky
Thomas Pesquet
Launching Peggy Whitson
Callsign Kazbek
Start of mission
Launch date 17 November 2016,
20:17:00 UTC
Rocket Soyuz-FG
Launch site Baikonur, Site 1
Contractor Progress Rocket Space Centre
End of mission
Landing date 2 June 2017, 14:10 UTC
Landing site Steppes of the Kazakhstan
Orbital parameters
Reference system Geocentric orbit
Regime Low Earth orbit
Inclination 51.66°
Docking with ISS
Docking port Rassvet nadir
Docking date 19 November 2016, 21:58 UTC
Undocking date 2 June 2017, 10:47 UTC
Time docked 194 days
Soyuz MS-03 crew (2).jpg
(l-r) Pesquet, Whitson and Novitsky
Soyuz programme
(Crewed missions)
← Soyuz MS-02

Soyuz MS-03 was a Soyuz spaceflight launched on 17 November 2016. It transported three members of the Expedition 50 crew to the International Space Station. MS-03 was the 132nd flight of a Soyuz spacecraft. The crew consisted of a Russian commander with American and French flight engineers.

Crew

Position Launching Crew Member Landing Crew Member
Commander Russia Oleg Novitsky, Roscosmos
Expedition 50
Second spaceflight
Flight Engineer 1 France Thomas Pesquet, ESA
Expedition 50
First spaceflight
Flight Engineer 2 United States Peggy Whitson, NASA
Expedition 50
Third spaceflight
N/A

Backup crew

Position Crew Member
Commander Russia Fyodor Yurchikhin, Roscosmos
Flight Engineer 1 Italy Paolo Nespoli, ESA
Flight Engineer 2 United States Jack D. Fischer, NASA

Mission highlights

Soyuz MS-03 launched with Expedition 50/51 on 17 November 2016, at 20:17 UTC. Astronaut Peggy Whitson, at age 56, became the oldest woman to fly into space. Soyuz MS-03 docked at the International Space Station on 19 November 2016. On 2 June 2017, Soyuz MS-03 undocked from the ISS, carrying Oleg Novitsky and Thomas Pesquet back to Earth after 196 days in space. Whitson remained on the ISS and returned on Soyuz MS-04 on 3 September 2017.

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