Soyuz 2.1a | Soyuz MS-18

Soyuz 2.1a | Soyuz MS-18

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Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan

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Russian Federal Space Agency (ROSCOSMOS)

The Roscosmos State Corporation for Space Activities, commonly known as Roscosmos, is the governmental body responsible for the space science program of the Russian Federation and general aerospace research. Soyuz has many launch locations the Russian sites are Baikonur, Plesetsk and Vostochny however Ariane also purchases the vehicle and launches it from French Guiana.

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Soyuz MS-18

Soyuz MS-18 begins expedition 65 by carrying Roscosmos cosmonauts Oleg Novitsky, Pyotr Dubrov and NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei to the International Space Station aboard the Soyuz spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. After launching from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, they will rendezvous to the station where they will remain for their 6 month stay.

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Soyuz MS-18


Serial Soyuz MS 11F732A48 #748

Launch Crew Count 3

Status Single Use

Landing Time 2021-10-17T04:35:44+0000


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Crew

Oleg Novitskiy

Commander

Nationality Russian

Date Of Birth 1971-10-12

Status Active

Type Government


Mark T. Vande Hei

Flight Engineer

Nationality American

Date Of Birth 1966-11-10

Status Active

Type Government


Pyotr Dubrov

Flight Engineer

Nationality Russian

Date Of Birth 1978-01-30

Status Active

Type Government


Soyuz 2.1a


Height 46.30 Meters

Max Stages 3

Mass To GTO 2810 kg

Liftoff Thrust 4149 kN

Diameter 2.95 Meters

Mass To LEO 7020 kg

Liftoff Mass 312 Tonnes


Launch Success 43

Consecutive Success 37

Maiden Flight 2004-11-04

Launch Failures 1


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Updates

Nosu

2021-04-09T07:53:13+0000

Successful launch of Soyuz MS-18 towards the International Space Station. Docking scheduled at 11:07 UTC.

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Nosu

2021-03-10T07:30:08+0000

Launch scheduled for April 9 07:42 UTC

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Programs

International Space Station

The International Space Station programme is tied together by a complex set of legal, political and financial agreements between the sixteen nations involved in the project, governing ownership of the various components, rights to crewing and utilization, and responsibilities for crew rotation and resupply of the International Space Station. It was conceived in 1984 by President Ronald Reagan, during the Space Station Freedom project as it was originally called.

Soyuz

The Soyuz programme is a human spaceflight programme initiated by the Soviet Union in the early 1960s. The Soyuz spacecraft was originally part of a Moon landing project intended to put a Soviet cosmonaut on the Moon. It was the third Soviet human spaceflight programme after the Vostok and Voskhod programmes.

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