Soyuz TMA-22

Soyuz TMA-22

Operator	Roskosmos
COSPAR ID	2011-067A
SATCAT no.	37877
Spacecraft properties
Spacecraft type	Soyuz-TMA 11F732
Manufacturer	RKK Energia
Crew
Crew size	3
Members	Anton Shkaplerov Anatoli Ivanishin Daniel C. Burbank
Callsign	Astraeus
Start of mission
Launch date	14 November 2011, 04:14:03 (2011-11-14UTC04:14:03Z) UTC[1]
Rocket	Soyuz-FG
Launch site	Baikonur 1/5
End of mission
Landing date	27 April 2012, 11:45 (2012-04-27UTC11:46Z) UTC[2]
Orbital parameters
Reference system	Geocentric
Regime	Low Earth
Docking with ISS
Docking port	Poisk zenith
Docking date	16 November 2011 05:24 UTC
Undocking date	27 April 2012 08:15 UTC
Time docked	163d 2h 51m
From left to right: Daniel C. Burbank, Anton Shkaplerov and Anatoli Ivanishin Soyuz programme (Crewed missions) ← Soyuz TMA-02M Soyuz TMA-03M →

Soyuz TMA-22 was a crewed spaceflight to the International Space Station (ISS). TMA-22 was the 111th flight of a Soyuz spacecraft, and transported three members of the Expedition 29 crew to the ISS. The spacecraft docked to the ISS on 16 November 2011,^[3] and remained docked to serve as an emergency escape vehicle until its undocking on 27 April 2012.^[4] Soyuz TMA-22 successfully landed in Kazakhstan on 27 April 2012 11:45 GMT.^[2]

TMA-22 was the final flight of a Soyuz-TMA vehicle, following the design's replacement by the modernized TMA-M series.^[5] The launch of Soyuz TMA-22 was originally scheduled for 30 September 2011, but was delayed until 14 November following the launch failure of the Progress M-12M resupply vehicle on 24 August 2011.^[6] Soyuz TMA-22 was the first crewed mission to dock with the ISS since the Retirement of the American Space Shuttle fleet at the end of the STS-135 mission in July 2011.