Soyuz TMA-19M

Soyuz TMA-19M was a 2015 Russian Soyuz spaceflight to the International Space Station. It was launched on December 15, 2015 from Baikonur Cosmodrome, transporting three members of the Expedition 46 crew to the International Space Station. TMA-19M was the 128th flight of a Soyuz spacecraft since the first in 1967. The crew consisted of a Russian commander accompanied by American and British astronauts. The flight returned to Earth on June 18, 2016. The Soyuz TMA-19M descent module is now in the collection of the UK's Science Museum Group.

Soyuz TMA-19M

The Soyuz TMA-19M approaches the ISS on 15 December 2015, seen behind the solar panels of Cygnus CRS OA-4
Operator	Roskosmos
COSPAR ID	2015-076A
SATCAT no.	41124
Mission duration	185 days 22 hours 11 minutes
Spacecraft properties
Spacecraft type	Soyuz-TMA-M 11F747 No.719[1]
Manufacturer	RKK Energia
Crew
Crew size	3
Members	Yuri Malenchenko Timothy Kopra Timothy Peake
Callsign	Agate
Start of mission
Launch date	15 December 2015, 11:03:09 (2015-12-15UTC11:03:09Z) UTC
Rocket	Soyuz-FG
Launch site	Baikonur 1/5
End of mission
Landing date	18 June 2016, 09:15 (2016-06-18UTC09:16Z) UTC[2]
Landing site	Kazakhstan
Orbital parameters
Reference system	Geocentric
Regime	Low Earth
Docking with ISS
Docking port	Rassvet nadir
Docking date	December 15, 2015 17:33:29 UTC[3]
Undocking date	18 June 2016 5:52 UTC [2]
Time docked	185 days, 12 hours and 18 minutes
(l-r) Kopra, Malenchenko and Peake Soyuz programme (Crewed missions) ← Soyuz TMA-18M Soyuz TMA-20M →

Crew

Position[4]	Crew Member
Flight engineer 3	Yuri Malenchenko, RSA Expedition 46 Sixth and last spaceflight
Flight Engineer 1	Timothy Kopra, NASA Expedition 46 Second and last spaceflight
Flight Engineer 2	Timothy Peake, ESA Expedition 46 Only spaceflight

Backup crew

Position[5]	Crew Member
Commander	Anatoli Ivanishin, RSA
Flight Engineer 1	Takuya Onishi, JAXA
Flight Engineer 2	Kathleen Rubins, NASA

Mission highlights

The Soyuz TMA-19M mission lifts off to the ISS on 15 December 2015

Soyuz TMA-19M was launched atop of a Soyuz-FG rocket at 11:03:09 UTC on 15 December 2015 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan. Following the launch, the Soyuz spacecraft successfully achieved orbital insertion 9 minutes later and began its 4-orbit journey to the Space Station. Unusually, while docking, the Kurs docking navigation system failed, and a manual docking had to be performed by Yuri Malenchenko. This delayed docking with the ISS by 10 minutes. The Soyuz docked with the ISS at 17:33:29 UTC the same day.^[6] The crew then boarded the ISS at 19:58 UTC.^[6]

Soyuz TMA-19M undocked on June 18, 2016 at 5:52 UTC, after being docked for 186 days. The crew landed safely in Kazakhstan, southeast of the town of Dzhezkazgan on 09:15 UTC.^[2]

See also

• Spaceflight portal

• 2015 in spaceflight