Soyuz TMA-16

Soyuz TMA-16
Mission type	ISS crew rotation
Operator	Roscosmos
COSPAR ID	2009-053A
SATCAT no.	35940
Mission duration	168 days
Spacecraft properties
Spacecraft	Soyuz No.226
Spacecraft type	Soyuz-TMA 11F732
Manufacturer	Energia
Crew
Crew size	3 up; 2 down
Members	Maksim Surayev; Jeffrey Williams
Launching	Guy Laliberté
Start of mission
Launch date	September 30, 2009, 07:14:45 UTC
Rocket	Soyuz-FG
Launch site	Baikonur 1/5
End of mission
Landing date	March 18, 2010, 11:24 UTC
Orbital parameters
Reference system	Geocentric
Regime	Low Earth
Perigee altitude	340 kilometres (210 mi)
Apogee altitude	351 kilometres (218 mi)
Inclination	51.6 degrees
Period	91.44 minutes
Epoch	October 7, 2009
Docking with ISS
Docking port	Zvezda aft
Docking date	2 October 2009; 08:35 UTC
Undocking date	21 January 2010; 10:03 UTC
Time docked	111d 1h 28m
Docking with ISS ; (Relocation)
Docking port	Poisk zenith
Docking date	21 January 2010; 10:24 UTC
Undocking date	18 March 2010; 08:03 UTC
Time docked	55d 21h 39m
	; From left to right: Laliberté, Williams and Surayev Soyuz programme; (Crewed missions) ← Soyuz TMA-15 Soyuz TMA-17 →

The Soyuz TMA-16 (Russian: Союз TMA-16) was a crewed flight to and from the International Space Station (ISS). It transported two members of the Expedition 21 crew^[1] and a Canadian entrepreneur from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan to the ISS. TMA-16 was the 103rd flight of a Soyuz spacecraft, the first flight launching in 1967. The launch of Soyuz TMA-16 marked the first time since 1969 that three Soyuz craft were in orbit simultaneously.

Guy Laliberté, founder and CEO of Cirque du Soleil, was a Space tourist aboard TMA-16 during its flight to the ISS, paying approximately US$35 million for his seat through the American firm Space Adventures.^[4] He returned on board the Soyuz TMA-14 spacecraft left as an emergency vehicle during that previous flight. The Soyuz TMA-16 flight spacecraft flew back to Earth with only two crew members.

Crew


Position^[4]^[5]	Launching Crew Member	Landing Crew Member
Commander	Maksim Surayev Expedition 21 First spaceflight
Flight Engineer	Jeffrey Williams, NASA Expedition 21 Third spaceflight
Spaceflight Participant	Guy Laliberté, SA Only spaceflight Tourist	None

Backup Crew


Position^[6]	Launching Crew Member	Landing Crew Member
Commander	Aleksandr Skvortsov
Flight Engineer	Shannon Walker, NASA
Spaceflight Participant	Barbara Barrett, SA Tourist	None

Mission highlights

Soyuz TMA-16 was docked to the ISS at the aft port of the Zvezda module. On January 21, 2010, cosmonaut Suraev and Expedition 22 Commander Jeffrey Williams relocated the spacecraft to the zenith-facing port of the Poisk module.^[7] The Soyuz TMA-16 spacecraft undocked from the aft end of the Zvezda service module at 5:03 a.m. EST and backed away to a distance of about 100 feet from the space station. Undocking occurred as the station flew about 213 miles high off the southwest coast of Africa. Re-docking occurred at 5:24 a.m. EST after Suraev fired the Soyuz maneuvering thrusters to fly halfway around the orbiting space station and line up with the Poisk module.

Spaceflight participant Guy Laliberté landed aboard Soyuz TMA-14 after approximately 12 days in space while Surayev and Williams landed aboard TMA-16 in Kazakhstan on March 18, 2010.

Space tourism status

Soyuz TMA-16 was the final flight of a space tourist to the International Space Station for more than a decade. With the imminent retirement of the Space Shuttle and the expansion of the station to six crew members, all Soyuz crew positions for the foreseeable future were to be occupied by Expedition crew^[8] until another crewed spacecraft such as Dragon 2 or Starliner was available to service the International Space Station.

References

^ ^a ^b ^c NASA Assigns Space Station Crews, Updates Expedition Numbering Archived 2012-04-17 at the Wayback Machine - NASA press release - 08-306 - Nov. 21, 2008
^ NASA. "Consolidated Launch Manifest". NASA. Archived from the original on March 7, 2009. Retrieved March 28, 2009.
^ McDowell, Jonathan. "Satellite Catalog". Jonathan's Space Page. Retrieved January 22, 2014.
^ ^a ^b "Circus tycoon Guy Laliberté becomes first clown in space". London: guardian.co.uk. Associated Press. October 1, 2009. Retrieved October 1, 2009.
^ NASA HQ (November 21, 2008). "NASA Assigns Space Station Crews, Updates Expedition Numbering". NASA. Archived from the original on April 17, 2012. Retrieved November 21, 2008.
^ Жена главы компании Intel готовится стать космонавтом Archived 2012-02-14 at the Wayback Machine
^ Stephen Clark (January 21, 2010). "Crew shifts Soyuz capsule to new station docking port". Spaceflightnow.com. Retrieved January 21, 2010.
^ AFP (November 13, 2008). "Russia sees end of road for space tourism". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved October 1, 2009.

External links

Soyuz TMA-16 tracking
Guy Laliberté in training Archived 2009-06-06 at the Wayback Machine
Soyuz TMA-16 pictures

[nasacrews-1] NASA Assigns Space Station Crews, Updates Expedition Numbering Archived 2012-04-17 at the Wayback Machine - NASA press release - 08-306 - Nov. 21, 2008

[manifest-2] NASA. "Consolidated Launch Manifest". NASA. Archived from the original on March 7, 2009. Retrieved March 28, 2009.

[satcat-3] McDowell, Jonathan. "Satellite Catalog". Jonathan's Space Page. Retrieved January 22, 2014.

[canada-4] "Circus tycoon Guy Laliberté becomes first clown in space". London: guardian.co.uk. Associated Press. October 1, 2009. Retrieved October 1, 2009.

[crew1-5] NASA HQ (November 21, 2008). "NASA Assigns Space Station Crews, Updates Expedition Numbering". NASA. Archived from the original on April 17, 2012. Retrieved November 21, 2008.

[6] Жена главы компании Intel готовится стать космонавтом Archived 2012-02-14 at the Wayback Machine

[7] Stephen Clark (January 21, 2010). "Crew shifts Soyuz capsule to new station docking port". Spaceflightnow.com. Retrieved January 21, 2010.

[8] AFP (November 13, 2008). "Russia sees end of road for space tourism". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved October 1, 2009.

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