22-1608: 2008 Russian crewed spaceflight to the ISS Soyuz TMA-13 [REDACTED] Soyuz TMA-13 lifts off from Gagarin's Start Operator Roscosmos COSPAR ID 2008-050A [REDACTED] SATCAT no. 33399 [REDACTED] Mission duration 178d 15m Spacecraft properties Spacecraft type Soyuz-TMA Manufacturer Energia Crew Crew size 3 Members Yury Lonchakov Michael Fincke Launching Richard Garriott Landing Charles Simonyi Callsign Titan Start of mission Launch date 12 October 2008, 07:01 ( 2008-10-12UTC07:01Z ) UTC Rocket Soyuz-FG Launch site Baikonur 1/5 End of mission Landing date 8 April 2009, 07:16 ( 2009-04-08UTC07:17Z ) UTC Orbital parameters Reference system Geocentric Regime Low Earth Docking with ISS Docking port Zarya nadir Docking date 14 October 2008 08:26 UTC Undocking date 8 April 2009 03:55 UTC Time docked 175d 19h 29m [REDACTED] From left to right: Richard Garriott, Yury Lonchakov, Michael Fincke Soyuz programme (Crewed missions) ← Soyuz TMA-12 Soyuz TMA-14 → Soyuz TMA-13 ( Russian : Союз ТМА-13 , Union TMA-13 )
44-564: A Delta II rocket used to launch a GPS satellite in 1993, passed close to the ISS. The conjunction between the debris and the Space Station was not detected until it was too late to perform a collision avoidance manoeuvre . The crew prepared to evacuate the station by closing hatches between modules, and boarding the Soyuz spacecraft that was docked to provide emergency crew escape. The debris did not hit
66-590: A guest of the Russian government through a spaceflight participant program run by Space Adventures . His role aboard the Soyuz is referred to as a Spaceflight Participant in English-language Russian Federal Space Agency documents, and NASA documents and press briefings. Salizhan Sharipov had originally been assigned to command this Soyuz flight and participate in Expedition 18, but
88-614: Is different from Wikidata Articles containing Russian-language text Gagarin%27s Start Gagarin's Start ( Russian : Гагаринский старт , Gagarinskiy start ), also known as Baikonur Site 1 or Site 1/5 was a launch site at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan that was used by the Soviet space program and Roscosmos . The launchpad for the world's first human spaceflight made by Yuri Gagarin on Vostok 1 in 1961,
110-4927: The International Space Station See also: ISS expeditions , Uncrewed ISS flights 1998–2004 1998 STS-88 1999 STS-96 2000 STS-101 106 92 Soyuz TM-31 STS-97 2001 STS-98 102 100 Soyuz TM-32 STS-104 105 Soyuz TM-33 STS-108 2002 STS-110 Soyuz TM-34 STS-111 112 Soyuz TMA-1 STS-113 2003 Soyuz TMA-2 TMA-3 2004 Soyuz TMA-4 TMA-5 [REDACTED] International Space Station Emblem 2005–2009 2005 Soyuz TMA-6 STS-114 Soyuz TMA-7 2006 Soyuz TMA-8 STS-121 115 Soyuz TMA-9 STS-116 2007 Soyuz TMA-10 STS-117 118 Soyuz TMA-11 STS-120 2008 STS-122 123 Soyuz TMA-12 STS-124 Soyuz TMA-13 STS-126 2009 STS-119 Soyuz TMA-14 TMA-15 STS-127 128 Soyuz TMA-16 STS-129 Soyuz TMA-17 2010–2014 2010 STS-130 Soyuz TMA-18 STS-131 132 Soyuz TMA-19 TMA-01M TMA-20 2011 STS-133 Soyuz TMA-21 STS-134 Soyuz TMA-02M STS-135 Soyuz TMA-22 TMA-03M 2012 Soyuz TMA-04M TMA-05M TMA-06M TMA-07M 2013 Soyuz TMA-08M TMA-09M TMA-10M TMA-11M 2014 Soyuz TMA-12M TMA-13M TMA-14M TMA-15M 2015–2019 2015 Soyuz TMA-16M TMA-17M TMA-18M TMA-19M 2016 Soyuz TMA-20M MS-01 MS-02 MS-03 2017 Soyuz MS-04 MS-05 MS-06 MS-07 2018 Soyuz MS-08 MS-09 MS-10 † MS-11 2019 Soyuz MS-12 MS-13 MS-15 Since 2020 2020 Soyuz MS-16 SpaceX Demo-2 Soyuz MS-17 SpaceX Crew-1 2021 Soyuz MS-18 SpaceX Crew-2 Soyuz MS-19 SpaceX Crew-3 Soyuz MS-20 2022 Soyuz MS-21 Axiom-1 SpaceX Crew-4 Soyuz MS-22 SpaceX Crew-5 2023 Soyuz MS-23 SpaceX Crew-6 Axiom-2 SpaceX Crew-7 Soyuz MS-24 2024 Axiom-3 SpaceX Crew-8 Soyuz MS-25 Boeing CFT Soyuz MS-26 SpaceX Crew-9 Future 2025 SpaceX Crew-10 Soyuz MS-27 Axiom-4 Boeing Starliner-1 Individuals List of ISS visitors crew Vehicles Past Space Shuttle Present Boeing Starliner Crew Dragon Soyuz Future Orel Ongoing spaceflights are in underline † - mission failed to reach ISS v t e ← 2007 Orbital launches in 2008 2009 → January Thuraya 3 TecSAR Ekspress AM-33 February Progress M-63 STS-122 ( Columbus ) Thor 5 Kizuna March Jules Verne ATV STS-123 ( Kibō ELM-PS , Dextre , Spacelab MD002 ) USA-200 AMC-14 USA-201 DirecTV-11 SAR-Lupe 4 April Soyuz TMA-12 ICO G1 C/NOFS Vinasat-1 , Star One C2 Tianlian I-01 GIOVE-B Cartosat-2A , Rubin-8 , AAUSat-2 , CanX-2 , CanX-6 , Compass-1 , CUTE-1.7 + APD II , Delfi-C3 , SEEDS-2 Amos-3 May Progress M-64 Galaxy 18 Kosmos 2437 , Kosmos 2438 , Kosmos 2439 , Yubileiny Fengyun 3A STS-124 ( Kibō PM ) June ChinaSat 9 Fermi Skynet 5C , Türksat 3A Orbcomm FM29 , Orbcomm FM37 , Orbcomm FM38 , Orbcomm FM39 , Orbcomm FM40 , Orbcomm FM41 OSTM/Jason-2 Kosmos 2440 July Badr-6 , ProtoStar 1 EchoStar XI SAR-Lupe 5 Kosmos 2441 August Trailblazer , NanoSail-D , PRESat , Explorers Superbird-C2 , AMC-21 Omid Inmarsat-4 F3 Tachys , Mati , Choma , Choros , Trochia September Huan Jing 1A , Huan Jing 1B GeoEye-1 Progress M-65 Nimiq-4 Galaxy 19 Kosmos 2442 , Kosmos 2243 , Kosmos 2444 Shenzhou 7 ( Banxing-1 ) Ratsat October THEOS Soyuz TMA-13 IBEX Chandrayaan-1 ( MIP ) Shijian 6E , Shijian 6F COSMO-3 Venesat-1 November Chuang Xin 1B , Shiyan Weixing 3 Astra 1M Kosmos 2445 STS-126 ( Leonardo MPLM , PSSC-1 ) Progress M-01M December Yaogan 4 Kosmos 2446 Yaogan 5 Hot Bird 9 , Eutelsat W2M Fengyun 2E Kosmos 2447 , Kosmos 2448 , Kosmos 2449 Launches are separated by dots ( • ), payloads by commas ( , ), multiple names for
132-622: The Kazakh SSR . This selection was approved on 12 February 1955 by the Council of Ministers, with a completion of construction targeted for 1958. Work on the construction of Site No.1 began on 20 July 1955 by military engineers. Day and night more than 60 powerful trucks worked at the site; 15,000 cubic metres (20,000 cu yd) of earth were excavated and removed per day, with the total volume estimated to be 750,000 cubic metres (980,000 cu yd). During winter explosives were widely utilised. By
154-692: The ISS Archived 2008-10-04 at the Wayback Machine ^ Mark Carreau (2008). "$ 30 million buys Austin resident a ride on Soyuz mission" . The Houston Chronicle . Retrieved 12 October 2008 . ^ Space Adventures, Ltd. (2008). "Space Adventures Announces 1st Second Generation Astronaut" . Space Adventures, Ltd. Archived from the original on 19 August 2014 . Retrieved 12 October 2008 . ^ "Space Adventures Announces Esther Dyson as Back-Up Crew Member for Spring 2009 Spaceflight Mission" . Space Adventures. Archived from
176-468: The ISS on STS-119 on 17 March 2009. Gregory Chamitoff , who joined Expedition 18 after Expedition 17 left the station, ended his stay aboard ISS and returned to Earth with the STS-126 crew. Salizhan Sharipov was originally slated to be the Soyuz commander and Expedition 18 Flight Engineer 1, but was replaced by his back-up, Yuri Lonchakov. On 12 March 2009, a piece of debris from the upper stage of
198-594: The Soyuz T-10-1 disaster. In 2019, Gagarin's Start hosted its last two crewed launches in July and September before its planned modernisation for Soyuz-2 rockets with a planned first launch at 2023. After the retirement of Gagarin's Start, crewed missions are launched from Site 31 . The last launch from Gagarin's Start was the Soyuz MS-15 flight to ISS on 25 September 2019, the first crewed mission from Site 31 since 2012
220-408: The end of October 1956, all primary buildings and installation of infrastructure for R-7 tests were completed. The Installation and Testing Building ( Монтажно-испытательный корпус , Montazhno-ispytatel'nyj korpus ) named " Site No.2 " was built and a special railway completed from there to Site No.1 where the launch pad for the rocket was located. By April 1957, all remaining work was completed and
242-556: The growing launch schedule of the Soviet space program resulted in the opening of a sister pad at Baikonur, LC-31/6 . LC-1 was the primary facility for human spaceflight launches, with occasional Soyuz flights from LC-31/6. LC-1 was damaged several times by booster explosions during the early years. The pad underwent a year-long renovation program in 1969-70 to support Zenit reconnaissance satellite launches; during this time all R-7 launches from Baikonur were carried out from LC-31. As of 2016,
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#1732891694799264-574: The most recent accident to occur on or around the pad was the attempted launch of Soyuz T-10-1 in September 1983, which ended disastrously when the booster caught fire during prelaunch preparations and exploded, causing severe damage that left LC-1 inoperable for almost a year. The first launch from the rehabilitated pad was a Yantar reconnaissance satellite in July 1984, but it did not host a manned launch again until Soyuz T-13 in June 1985, nearly two years after
286-438: The original on 22 July 2011 . Retrieved 19 January 2011 . ^ Jen Kelly (26 November 2007). "Space flight dream nears" . Herald and Weekly Times. Archived from the original on 9 July 2008 . Retrieved 12 October 2008 . ^ NASA (2008). "Expedition 18" . NASA . Retrieved 12 October 2008 . ^ NASA (2008). "NASA Assigns Crews for STS-127 and Expedition 19 Missions" . NASA. Archived from
308-3910: The original on 25 February 2020 . Retrieved 11 February 2008 . v t e Soyuz programme List of Soyuz missions List of Soviet human spaceflight missions List of Russian human spaceflight missions Main topics Soyuz (rocket family) Soyuz (spacecraft) Baikonur Cosmodrome Site 1/5 Site 31/6 Soyuz abort modes Cosmonaut ranks and positions [REDACTED] Past missions (by spacecraft type) Soyuz 7K-OK (1966–1970) Kosmos 133 † Soyuz 7K-OK No.1 † (uncrewed) Kosmos 140 Soyuz 1 † Kosmos 186 188 212 213 238 Soyuz 2 (uncrewed) 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Soyuz 7K-L1 (1967–1970) ( Zond lunar programme ) Kosmos 146 154 † Zond 1967A † 1967B † Zond 4 1968A † 1968B † 5 6 1969A † Zond-M 1 † M 2 † Zond 7 8 9 10 Soyuz 7K-L1E (1969–1970) Soyuz 7K-L1E No.1 † Kosmos 382 Soyuz 7K-LOK (1971–1972) Soyuz 7K-LOK No.1 † No.2 † Soyuz 7K-OKS (1971) Soyuz 10 † 11 † Soyuz 7K-T (1972–1981) Kosmos 496 573 Soyuz 12 Kosmos 613 Soyuz 13 Kosmos 656 Soyuz 14 15 † 17 18a † 18 20 (uncrewed) 21 23 † 24 25 † 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 (uncrewed landing) 33 † 34 (uncrewed launch) 35 36 37 38 39 40 Soyuz 7K-TM (1974–1976) Kosmos 638 672 Soyuz 16 19 ( Apollo–Soyuz ) 22 Soyuz 7K-S (1974–1976) Kosmos 670 772 † 869 † Soyuz-T (1978–1986) Kosmos 1001 † 1074 Soyuz T-1 (uncrewed) T-2 T-3 T-4 T-5 T-6 T-7 T-8 † T-9 T-10a † T-10 T-11 T-12 T-13 T-14 T-15 Soyuz-TM (1986–2002) Soyuz TM-1 (uncrewed) TM-2 TM-3 TM-4 TM-5 TM-6 TM-7 TM-8 TM-9 TM-10 TM-11 TM-12 TM-13 TM-14 TM-15 TM-16 TM-17 TM-18 TM-19 TM-20 TM-21 TM-22 TM-23 TM-24 TM-25 TM-26 TM-27 TM-28 TM-29 TM-30 TM-31 TM-32 TM-33 TM-34 Soyuz-TMA (2002–2012) Soyuz TMA-1 TMA-2 TMA-3 TMA-4 TMA-5 TMA-6 TMA-7 TMA-8 TMA-9 TMA-10 TMA-11 TMA-12 TMA-13 TMA-14 TMA-15 TMA-16 TMA-17 TMA-18 TMA-19 TMA-20 TMA-21 TMA-22 Soyuz-TMA-M (2010–2016) Soyuz TMA-01M TMA-02M TMA-03M TMA-04M TMA-05M TMA-06M TMA-07M TMA-08M TMA-09M TMA-10M TMA-11M TMA-12M TMA-13M TMA-14M TMA-15M TMA-16M TMA-17M TMA-18M TMA-19M TMA-20M Soyuz MS (2016–present) Soyuz MS-01 MS-02 MS-03 MS-04 MS-05 MS-06 MS-07 MS-08 MS-09 MS-10 † MS-11 MS-12 MS-13 MS-14 (uncrewed) MS-15 MS-16 MS-17 MS-18 MS-19 MS-20 MS-21 MS-22 (uncrewed landing) MS-23 (uncrewed launch) MS-24 MS-25 Current missions MS-26 Future missions 2025 MS-27 MS-28 2026 MS-29 Uncrewed missions are designated as Kosmos instead of Soyuz ; exceptions are noted "(uncrewed)". The † sign designates failed missions. Italics designates cancelled missions. v t e Human spaceflights to
330-614: The same satellite by slashes ( / ). Crewed flights are underlined. Launch failures are marked with the † sign. Payloads deployed from other spacecraft are (enclosed in parentheses). Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Soyuz_TMA-13&oldid=1252274354 " Categories : Crewed Soyuz missions Spacecraft launched in 2008 Orbital space tourism missions Spacecraft which reentered in 2009 Spacecraft launched by Soyuz-FG rockets Hidden categories: Webarchive template wayback links Articles with short description Short description
352-431: The site was ready for launches. The R-7 missile made its maiden voyage from LC-1 on 15 May 1957. On 4 October 1957, the pad was used to launch the world's first artificial satellite, Sputnik 1 . Crewed spaceflights launched from the site include Yuri Gagarin 's flight, Valentina Tereshkova 's flight, and numerous other human spaceflight missions, including all Soviet and Russian crewed spaceflights to Mir . The pad
374-581: The site was referred to as Site No.1 ( Площадка №1 , Ploshchadka No. 1 ) as the first one of its kind. It is also sometimes referred to as NIIP-5 LC1 , Baikonur LC1 , LC-1/5 , LC-1 , Pad 1/5 or GIK-5 LC1 . On 17 March 1954, the Council of Ministers ordered several ministries to select a site for a proving ground to test the R-7 rocket by 1 January 1955. A special reconnaissance commission considered several possible geographic regions and selected Tyuratam in
396-552: Was Soyuz MS-16 on 9 April 2020. Gagarin's Start failed to receive funding to modernize it for the slightly larger Soyuz-2 rocket due to the reorientation of Russian space launches to the Vostochny cosmodrome. In 2023, it was announced that the Russian and Kazakhstan authorities plan to deactivate the site as a retired space launch pad and add it to the Baikonur Cosmodrome's museum complex. Expedition 18 Expedition 18
418-1370: Was a Soyuz mission to the International Space Station (ISS). The spacecraft was launched by a Soyuz-FG rocket at 07:01 GMT on 12 October 2008. It undocked at 02:55 GMT on 8 April 2009, performed a deorbit burn at 06:24, and landed at 07:16. By some counts, Soyuz TMA-13 is the 100th Soyuz spacecraft to be crewed. Crew [ edit ] Position Launching crew Landing crew Commander [REDACTED] Yury Lonchakov , Roscosmos Expedition 18 Third and last spaceflight Flight Engineer [REDACTED] Michael Fincke , NASA Expedition 18 Second spaceflight Spaceflight Participant [REDACTED] / [REDACTED] Richard Garriott , SA Only spaceflight Tourist [REDACTED] / [REDACTED] Charles Simonyi , SA Second and last spaceflight Tourist Backup crew [ edit ] Position Launching crew Landing crew Commander [REDACTED] Gennady Padalka , Roscosmos Flight Engineer [REDACTED] Michael Barratt , NASA Spaceflight Participant [REDACTED] Nik Halik, SA Tourist [REDACTED] Esther Dyson , SA Tourist Crew notes [ edit ] Richard Garriott flew on TMA-13 as
440-420: Was also used to launch Luna program spacecraft, Mars probe program spacecraft, Venera program spacecraft, many Cosmos satellites and others. From 1957 through 1966 the site hosted ready-to-launch strategic nuclear ICBMs in addition to spacecraft launches; by the 2000s there had been more than 400 launches from the site. The 500th launch from this site was of Soyuz TMA-18M on 2 September 2015. In 1961,
462-863: Was replaced by Yury Lonchakov. [REDACTED] Soyuz TMA-13 arrives at the launch pad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome on 10 October 2008 [REDACTED] Soyuz TMA-13 erected at the Baikonur Cosmodrome launch pad 1/5 Gagarin's Start [REDACTED] Crew Patch References [ edit ] ^ Chris Bergin (2008). "Soyuz TMA-13 launches trio on journey to the ISS" . NASA Spaceflight.com . Retrieved 12 October 2008 . ^ The Associated Press (2008). "Rocket launches on space station voyage" . International Herald Tribune . Retrieved 12 October 2008 . ^ Robert Z. Pearlman (2008). "The 100th Soyuz flight that (maybe) isn't" . collectSPACE . Retrieved 12 October 2008 . ^ Space Adventures’ Orbital Spaceflight Candidate, Charles Simonyi, Plans Spring 2009 Return Flight to
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#1732891694799484-428: Was the 18th permanent crew of the International Space Station (ISS). The first two crew members, Michael Fincke , and Yuri Lonchakov were launched on 12 October 2008, aboard Soyuz TMA-13 . With them was astronaut Sandra Magnus , who joined the Expedition 18 crew after launching on STS-126 and remained until departing on STS-119 on 25 March 2009. She was replaced by JAXA astronaut Koichi Wakata , who arrived at
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