MagISStra mission key data
Mission
Expeditions 26/27 to the ISS
Launch site
Baikonur, Kazakhstan
Launch / landing craft
Soyuz TMA-20
Launch date
15 December 2010, 19:09 GMT / 20:09 CET
16 December 2010, 01:09 Baikonur time
After the launch, Soyuz cruises to the International Space Station, raising it's orbit slowly and circling the Earth 35 times in about 2.5 days.
Docking
17 December 2010, 20:12 GMT / 21:12 CET
Landing
24 May 2011, 02:26 GMT / 04:26 CEST
Mission duration
159 days
Prime Crew
- Dmitri Kondratiev, Soyuz and Expedition 27 Commander
- Paolo Nespoli, flight engineer
- Catherine Coleman, flight engineer
Back up Crew
- Anatoly Ivanishin
- Satoshi Furukawa
- Mike Fossum
