| Soyuz TMA-22 Союз ТМА-22 | |||||
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| Mission name | Soyuz TMA-22 Союз ТМА-22 | ||||
| Crew size | 3 | ||||
| Call sign | Astraeus | ||||
| Launch date | 14 November 2011[1] 04:14:03 GMT | ||||
| Landing | 16 March 2012 (planned) | ||||
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| From left to right: Daniel C. Burbank, Anton Shkaplerov and Anatoli Ivanishin | |||||
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Soyuz TMA-22 is a current flight to the International Space Station (ISS). TMA-22 was the 111th flight of a Soyuz spacecraft, and transported three members of the Expedition 29 crew to the ISS. The spacecraft docked to the ISS on 16 November 2011 and will most likely remain docked throughout the Expedition 29 increment to serve as an emergency escape vehicle.
TMA-22 was the final flight of a Soyuz-TMA vehicle, following its replacement by the modernized TMA-M series.[3] The launch of Soyuz TMA-22 was originally scheduled for 30 September 2011, but was delayed until 14 November following the launch failure of the Progress M-12M resupply vehicle on 24 August 2011.
Soyuz TMA-22 was the first manned mission to dock with the ISS since the retirement of the American Space Shuttle fleet at the end of the STS-135mission in July 2011.
[edit]Crew
| Position | Crew Member | |
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| Commander | Anton Shkaplerov Expedition 29 First spaceflight | |
| Flight Engineer 1 | Anatoli Ivanishin Expedition 29 First spaceflight | |
| Flight Engineer 2 | Daniel C. Burbank, NASA Expedition 29 Third spaceflight | |
Mission profile
Rescheduling of launch
Soyuz TMA-22's launch was rescheduled from late September 2011 to 14 November, due to the failed launch of the Progress M-12M cargo spacecraft on 24 August 2011. The incident, caused by a blocked fuel line leading to the gas generator of the Soyuz-U booster’s third-stage RD-0110 engine, resulted in a suspension of all Russian crewed spaceflights, due to the similar third stage in use on the crewed Soyuz-FG booster. A Russian commission blamed the failure on a single human error, and put additional procedures in place to prevent the problem from recurring. On 30 October 2011, Russia successfully launched the Progress M-13M unmanned cargo ship atop the Soyuz-U booster, clearing the way for the Soyuz TMA-22 launch.
Docking
Soyuz TMA-22 docked with the ISS at 05:24 GMT on 16 November 2011, about nine minutes earlier than planned. The spacecraft docked at the MRM-2 Poisk module, while Soyuz TMA-22 and the ISS were flying 400 kilometres (250 mi) above the southern Pacific Ocean. The Soyuz crew entered the ISS at around 6:39 GMT, and were greeted by Expedition 29 crewmembers Mike Fossum,Sergei Volkov and Satoshi Furukawa.
Burbank, Shkaplerov and Ivanishin received congratulatory satellite calls from Russian dignitaries and family members before participating in a safety briefing led by Expedition 29 commander Fossum.
The blackness of space and Earth's horizon provide the backdrop for this image of the docked Soyuz 13 (foreground) and the Progress 22 resupply vehicle. Astronauts photographed the Soyuz from a window on the International Space Station while space shuttle Discovery was docked with the station.
This view of the International Space Station over a blue-and-white Earth was taken shortly after the space shuttle Atlantis undocked from the orbital outpost on September 17, 2006. During its six days on the space station, the Atlantiscrew installed a pair of 240-foot (73-meter) solar wings, attached to a 17.5-ton section of truss with batteries, electronics, and a giant rotating joint. The new solar arrays were designed to double the station's onboard power.
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