Soyuz MS-13, also designated ISS flight 59S, was a crewed Soyuz mission launched on 20 July 2019 – the 50th anniversary of the first moon landing – [2] carrying three members of the Expedition 60 crew to the International Space Station: a Russian commander, an American and a European flight engineer. Soyuz MS-13 was the 142nd flight of a Soyuz spacecraft. It was at one point the last Soyuz flight contracted by NASA in the expectation that subsequent astronaut transport would be provided by the Commercial Crew Program,[5] but in early 2019 NASA sought to purchase two additional Soyuz seats to provide greater certainty given delays in that program.[6]
The Soyuz MS-13 approaches the ISS | |
| Mission type | Crewed mission to ISS |
|---|---|
| Operator | Roskosmos |
| COSPAR ID | 2019-041A |
| SATCAT no. | 44437 |
| Mission duration | 200d 16h 44m |
| Orbits completed | 3,216 [1] |
| Spacecraft properties | |
| Spacecraft | Soyuz-MS |
| Spacecraft type | Soyuz-MS 11F747 No. 746 |
| Manufacturer | RKK Energia |
| Crew | |
| Crew size | 3 |
| Members | Aleksandr Skvortsov Luca Parmitano |
| Launching | Andrew R. Morgan |
| Landing | Christina Koch |
| Callsign | Cliff |
| Start of mission | |
| Launch date | 20 July 2019, 16:28:21 UTC[2] |
| Rocket | Soyuz-FG |
| Launch site | Baikonur, Site 1/5 |
| End of mission | |
| Landing date | 6 February 2020, 09:12:45 UTC[3][1] |
| Landing site | Steppes of Kazakhstan. |
| Orbital parameters | |
| Reference system | Geocentric |
| Regime | Low Earth |
| Inclination | 51.6° |
| Docking with ISS | |
| Docking port | Zvezda aft |
| Docking date | 20 July 2019, 22:47:50 UTC[1] |
| Undocking date | 26 August 2019, 03:35 UTC[4] |
| Time docked | 36 days, 4 hours and 48 minutes |
| Docking with ISS (Relocation) | |
| Docking port | Poisk zenith |
| Docking date | 26 August 2019, 03:59 UTC[4] |
| Undocking date | 6 February 2020, 05:50:28 UTC[1] |
| Time docked | 164d 1h 51m |
(l-r) Morgan, Skvortsov and Parmitano Soyuz programme (Crewed missions) | |
| Position | Launching Crew member | Landing Crew member |
|---|---|---|
| Commander | Expedition 60/61 Third and last spaceflight | |
| Flight Engineer 1 | Expedition 60/61 Second spaceflight | |
| Flight Engineer 2 | Expedition 60/61/62 First spaceflight |
Expedition 59/60/61 First spaceflight |
| Position | Crew member[1] | |
|---|---|---|
| Commander | ||
| Flight Engineer 1 | ||
| Flight Engineer 2 | ||
The Soyuz crew relocated the MS-13 spacecraft from the aft port of the Zvezda module and performed a manual docking on the Poisk module on 26 August 2019.[4] This cleared the way for Soyuz MS-14 to perform an automatic docking on Zvezda, after a faulty signal amplifier on Poisk caused MS-14's first docking attempt to abort on 24 August 2019.[8] The last time a Soyuz spacecraft was relocated was in August 2015 during the Soyuz TMA-16M mission.[9]
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