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Soyuz MS-17
Expedition 64 Launch (NHQ202010140004).jpg
Favor launches atop a Soyuz-2.1a
Names ISS 63S
Mission type Crewed mission to ISS
Operator Roscosmos
Website https://www.roscosmos.ru/
Mission duration 184 days, 23 hours, 10 minutes
Spacecraft properties
Spacecraft Soyuz MS No.747 Favor
Manufacturer RSC Energia
Crew
Members
Start of mission
Launch date 14 October 2020, 05:45:04 UTC
Rocket Soyuz-2.1a (s/n Х15000-045)
Launch site Baikonur, Site 31
Contractor RSC Progress
End of mission
Landing date 17 April 2021, 04:55 UTC
Landing site Kazakh Steppe, Kazakhstan
Orbital parameters
Reference system Geocentric orbit
Regime Low Earth orbit
Inclination 51.66°
Docking with ISS
Docking port Rassvet nadir
Docking date 14 October 2020, 08:48:47 UTC
Undocking date 19 March 2021, 16:38:27 UTC
Time docked 156 days, 7 hours and 49 minutes
Docking with ISS
(Relocation)
Docking port Poisk zenith
Docking date 19 March 2021, 17:12:35 UTC
Undocking date 17 April 2021, 01:34 UTC
Time docked 28 days, 8 hours and 21 minutes
Expedition 64 Preflight (NHQ202009280023).jpg
Rubins, Ryzhikov, and Kud-Sverchkov
Soyuz programme (crewed)
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Soyuz MS-17 was a Soyuz spaceflight that was launched on 14 October 2020. It transported three crew members of the Expedition 63/64 crew to the International Space Station. Soyuz MS-17 was the 145th crewed flight of a Soyuz spacecraft. The crew consisted of a Russian commander and a Russian and American flight engineer.

The mission marked the first use of a new "ultrafast" two-orbit rendezvous flight plan with the Soyuz, which saw Soyuz MS-17 arrive at the ISS within approximately three hours after the launch.

On 19 March 2021, the crew of Soyuz MS-17 boarded their spacecraft to relocate it from Rassvet to Poisk to make way for the arrival and docking of the Soyuz MS-18 spacecraft, which launched on 9 April 2021 carrying cosmonauts Oleg Novitsky, Pyotr Dubrov and the astronaut of NASA, Mark T. Vande Hei to the ISS ahead of a six-month stay. The two spacecraft had a nine-day handover period before Soyuz MS-17 departed. This is necessary to avoid de-crewing the Russian Orbital Segment (ROS) of the ISS since no Russian cosmonaut was present aboard SpaceX Crew-1.

Crew

Position Crew member
Commander Russia Sergey Ryzhikov, Roscosmos
Expedition 63/64
Second spaceflight
Flight Engineer 1 Russia Sergey Kud-Sverchkov, Roscosmos
Expedition 63/64
First spaceflight
Flight Engineer 2 United States Kathleen Rubins, NASA
Expedition 63/64
Second spaceflight

Backup crew

Position Crew member
Commander Russia Oleg Novitsky, Roscosmos
Flight Engineer 1 Russia Pyotr Dubrov, Roscosmos
Flight Engineer 2 United States Mark T. Vande Hei, NASA

Reserve crew

Position Crew member
Commander Russia Anton Shkaplerov, Roscosmos
Flight Engineer 1 Russia Andrei Babkin, Roscosmos

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