30 SEP. 2010
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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.
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Soyuz TMA-1 docking with the ISS
Docking
17 December 2010, 20:12 GMT / 21:12 CET
Landing
24 May 2011, 02:26 GMT / 04:26 CEST
Mission duration
159 days
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Soyuz capsule during landing
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
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Paolo Nespoli heads to Space Station on MagISStra mission
ESA PR 30-2010 ESA astronaut Paolo Nespoli is on his way to the International Space Station with crewmates Dmitri Kondratyev and Catherine Coleman aboard their Soyuz spacecraft following liftoff from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 20:09:25 CET today.
MagISStra mission: Information for the media
ESA's astronaut Paolo Nespoli will be launched in a Soyuz TMA spacecraft from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on 15 December at 20:09 CET with Dmitri Kondratyev and Catherine Coleman for a challenging 6-month mission on the International Space Station (ISS) as members of Expeditions 26/27.
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