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Soyuz MS-20
2021 Russian crewed spaceflight to the ISS / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Soyuz MS-20 was a Russian Soyuz spaceflight to the International Space Station (ISS) on 8–20 December 2021.[1] Unlike previous Soyuz flights to the ISS, Soyuz MS-20 did not deliver any crew members for an ISS Expedition or serve as a lifeboat for any crew members on board the station. Instead, it was commanded by a single professional cosmonaut and carried two space tourists represented by company Space Adventures, which had executed eight space tourism missions to the ISS in 2001–9.[4][5] The flight to reach the ISS took six hours.[6]
Quick Facts Names, Mission type ...
![]() Docking of Soyuz MS-20 | |
Names | ISS 66S |
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Mission type | Crewed mission to ISS, Space tourism |
Operator | Roscosmos |
COSPAR ID | 2021-119A ![]() |
SATCAT no. | 49922 |
Mission duration | 11 days, 19 hours and 34 minutes (achieved) |
Spacecraft properties | |
Spacecraft | Soyuz MS No.752 Altair |
Spacecraft type | Soyuz MS |
Manufacturer | RSC Energia |
Crew | |
Crew size | 3 |
Members | |
Start of mission | |
Launch date | 8 December 2021, 07:38:15 UTC[1][2] |
Rocket | Soyuz-2.1a |
Launch site | Baikonur Cosmodrome, Site 31 |
Contractor | Progress Rocket Space Centre |
End of mission | |
Landing date | 20 December 2021, 03:13 UTC |
Landing site | Kazakh Steppe,[lower-alpha 1] Kazakhstan |
Orbital parameters | |
Reference system | Geocentric orbit |
Regime | Low Earth orbit |
Inclination | 51.66° |
Docking with ISS | |
Docking port | Poisk zenith |
Docking date | 8 December 2021, 13:40:44 UTC |
Undocking date | 19 December 2021, 23:50:30 UTC |
Time docked | 11 days, 10 hours and 9 minutes |
![]() Maezawa, Misurkin and Hirano |
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