Soyuz MS-20
Soyuz MS-20 was a Russian Soyuz spaceflight to the International Space Station (ISS) on 8–20 December 2021. Unlike previous Soyuz flights to the ISS, Soyuz MS-20 did not deliver any crew members for an ISS Expedition or serve as a lifeboat for any crew members on board the station. Instead, it was commanded by a single professional cosmonaut and carried two space tourists represented by company Space Adventures, which had executed eight space tourism missions to the ISS in 2001–9. The flight to reach the ISS took six hours.
Docking of Soyuz MS-20 | |
| Names | ISS 66S |
|---|---|
| Mission type | Crewed mission to ISS, Space tourism |
| Operator | Roscosmos |
| COSPAR ID | 2021-119A |
| SATCAT no. | 49922 |
| Mission duration | 11 days, 19 hours and 34 minutes (achieved) |
| Spacecraft properties | |
| Spacecraft | Soyuz MS No.752 Altair |
| Spacecraft type | Soyuz MS |
| Manufacturer | RSC Energia |
| Crew | |
| Crew size | 3 |
| Members | |
| Start of mission | |
| Launch date | 8 December 2021, 07:38:15 UTC |
| Rocket | Soyuz-2.1a |
| Launch site | Baikonur Cosmodrome, Site 31 |
| Contractor | Progress Rocket Space Centre |
| End of mission | |
| Landing date | 20 December 2021, 03:13 UTC |
| Landing site | Kazakh Steppe, Kazakhstan |
| Orbital parameters | |
| Reference system | Geocentric orbit |
| Regime | Low Earth orbit |
| Inclination | 51.66° |
| Docking with ISS | |
| Docking port | Poisk zenith |
| Docking date | 8 December 2021, 13:40:44 UTC |
| Undocking date | 19 December 2021, 23:50:30 UTC |
| Time docked | 11 days, 10 hours and 9 minutes |
Maezawa, Misurkin and Hirano | |
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