Soyuz TMA-20M

Soyuz TMA-20M was a 2016 Russian Soyuz spaceflight to the International Space Station (ISS).^[3] It transported three members of the Expedition 47 crew to the ISS. TMA-20M was the 129th flight of a Soyuz spacecraft. The crew consisted of a Russian commander and flight engineer, as well as an American flight engineer.

Soyuz TMA-20M

Soyuz TMA-20M spacecraft approaches the ISS
Operator	Roscosmos
COSPAR ID	2016-018A
SATCAT no.	41391
Mission duration	172 days 3 hours 47 minutes
Spacecraft properties
Spacecraft type	Soyuz-TMA-M 11F747 No.720[1]
Manufacturer	Energia
Crew
Crew size	3
Members	Aleksey Ovchinin Oleg Skripochka Jeffrey N. Williams
Callsign	Burlak
Start of mission
Launch date	March 18, 2016 21:26:38 UTC
Rocket	Soyuz-FG
Launch site	Baikonur 1/5
End of mission
Landing date	September 7, 2016 01:13 UTC
Landing site	Kazakhstan
Orbital parameters
Reference system	Geocentric
Regime	Low Earth
Docking with ISS
Docking port	Poisk zenith
Docking date	March 19, 2016 03:09 UTC[2]
Undocking date	September 6, 2016 21:51:30 UTC
Time docked	5 months, 2 weeks, 4 days, 18 hours, 42 minutes
(l-r) Williams, Ovchinin and Skripochka Soyuz programme (Crewed missions) ← Soyuz TMA-19M Soyuz MS-01 →

It was the final flight of the Soyuz TMA-M design, being replaced by the Soyuz MS in 2016.

Crew

Position[4]	Crew Member
Commander	Aleksey Ovchinin, Roscosmos Expedition 47 First spaceflight
Flight Engineer 1	Oleg Skripochka, Roscosmos Expedition 47 Second spaceflight
Flight Engineer 2	Jeffrey Williams, NASA Expedition 47 Fourth and last spaceflight

Backup crew

Position[5]	Crew Member
Commander	Sergey Ryzhikov, Roscosmos
Flight Engineer 1	Andrei Borisenko, Roscosmos
Flight Engineer 2	Shane Kimbrough, NASA