Soyuz TMA-20

Soyuz TMA-20
OperatorRoscosmos
COSPAR ID2010-067A Edit this at Wikidata
SATCAT no.37254Edit this on Wikidata
Mission duration159 days, 7 hours, 17 minutes,
Spacecraft properties
Spacecraft typeSoyuz-TMA 11F732
ManufacturerRKK Energia
Crew
Crew size3
MembersDmitri Kondratyev
Catherine Coleman
Paolo Nespoli
CallsignВаряг ("Varangian")
Start of mission
Launch dateDecember 15, 2010, 19:09 (2010-12-15UTC19:09Z) UTC[1][2]
RocketSoyuz-FG
Launch siteBaikonur 1/5
End of mission
Landing dateMay 24, 2011, 02:27 (2011-05-24UTC02:28Z) UTC[3][4]
Orbital parameters
Reference systemGeocentric
RegimeLow Earth
Docking with ISS
Docking portRassvet nadir
Docking date17 December 2010
20:12 UTC
Undocking date23 May 2011
21:35 UTC
Time docked157d 1h 23m

From left to right: Coleman, Kondratyev and Nespoli
Soyuz programme
(Crewed missions)

Soyuz TMA-20 was a human spaceflight to the International Space Station (ISS) and was part of the Soyuz programme. It lifted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on December 15, 2010, and docked with the ISS two days later. The three-person crew of Soyuz TMA-20 – Dmitri Kondratyev, Catherine Coleman and Paolo Nespoli – represented the ISS partner organizations of Roscosmos, NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA). Soyuz TMA-20's crew represented half of the members of Expedition 27; the other three members of the expedition arrived at the station on board Soyuz TMA-21 on April 6, 2011. The COSPAR ID of Soyuz TMA-20 was 2010-067A.[5] It is ISS flight 25S.

On May 24, 2011, after spending 159 days in space, the Soyuz TMA-20 descent module landed safely in Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan, carrying Kondratyev, Coleman and Nespoli.

  1. ^ "Expedition 26". NASA. February 12, 2015. Archived from the original on February 3, 2023.
  2. ^ NASA Consolidated Launch Manifest
  3. ^ NASA Assigns Space Station Crews, Updates Expedition Numbering – NASA press release – 08-306 – November 21, 2008
  4. ^ "NASA Television to Cover Next Soyuz Departure, Arrival". Archived from the original on May 26, 2011. Retrieved May 19, 2011. – IEWY news
  5. ^ "SPACEWARN Bulletin No. 686". NASA. January 1, 2011. Retrieved May 25, 2011.

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