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posted 02-25-2019 09:18 PM
How many Soyuz relocations from one docking port to another have taken place at the International Space Station? I did not find a list anywhere. This is the list I came up with. The list will be updated.
Soyuz TM-31 ... Zvezda to Zarya ... February 24, 2001
Soyuz TM-31 ... Zarya to Zvezda ... April 18, 2001
Soyuz TM-32 ... Zarya to Pirs ... October 19, 2001
Soyuz TM-33 ... Zarya to Pirs ... April 20, 2002
Soyuz TMA-5 ... Pirs to Zarya ... November 29, 2004
Soyuz TMA-6 ... Pirs to Zarya ... July 19, 2005
Soyuz TMA-7 ... Pirs to Zarya ... November 18, 2005
Soyuz TMA-7 ... Zarya to Zvezda ... March 20, 2006
Soyuz TMA-9 ... Zvezda to Zarya ... October 10, 2006
Soyuz TMA-9 ... Zarya to Zvezda ... March 29, 2007
Soyuz TMA-10 ... Zarya to Zvezda ... September 27, 2007
Soyuz TMA-14 ... Zvezda to Pirs ... July 2, 2009
Soyuz TMA-16 ... Zvezda to Poisk ... January 21, 2010
Soyuz TMA-17 ... Zarya to Zvezda ... May 12, 2010
Soyuz TMA-19 ... Zvezda to Rassvet ... June 28, 2010
Soyuz TMA-09M ... Rassvet to Zvezda ... November 1, 2013
Soyuz TMA-16M ... Poisk to Zvezda ... August 28, 2015
Soyuz MS-13 ... Zvezda to Poisk ... August 26, 2019
Soyuz MS-17 ... Rassvet to Poisk ... March 19, 2021
Soyuz MS-18 ... Rassvet to Nauka ... September 28, 2021
Soyuz MS-23 ... Poisk to Prichal ... April 6, 2023
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posted 02-25-2019 10:59 PM
I think this is the Soyuz TMA-09M relocation in 2013.
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posted 02-26-2019 09:46 PM
These NASA astronauts flew on Soyuz relocations at the ISS:
William Shepherd
James Voss
Susan Helms
Frank Culbertson
Carl Walz
Dan Bursch
Leroy Chiao
John Phillips
William McArthur
Michael Lopez-Alegria
Sunita Williams
Clayton Anderson
Michael Barratt
Jeff Williams
Timothy Creamer
Shannon Walker
Doug Wheelock
Karen Nyberg
Scott Kelly
Andrew Morgan
Kathleen Rubins
Mark Vande Hei
Frank Rubio
Voss, Helms, Culbertson, Walz, Bursch and Anderson never launched or landed in a Soyuz spacecraft.
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posted 02-28-2019 06:20 AM
The Soyuz TM-31 spacecraft was relocated twice at the ISS, with two completely different crews. Nine different people flew on TM-31 during its mission.
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posted 02-28-2019 08:07 AM
Very cool video I haven't seen before.
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posted 02-28-2019 10:15 AM
Soyuz TMA-10M can also be seen docked to the ISS.
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On the eve of the next relocation of a Soyuz spacecraft at the International Space Station, NASA Commentator Crawford Jones talks with Luca Parmitano, a European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut who performed the last such maneuver, in November of 2013. Parmitano discusses the preparations for a twenty minute flight to move the crew capsule from one docking port on the station to another, and the sight of the station from close range as seen during the short trip. Three members of the Expedition 44 crew will suit up to move their Soyuz vehicle early tomorrow, August 28.
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posted 03-15-2019 06:22 PM
The ISS was unoccupied during some of the relocations listed in the first post.
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posted 03-17-2019 10:44 AM
quote:Originally posted by randy: Very cool video I haven't seen before.
The actual Soyuz TMA-09M undocking-to-docking relocation took about 27 minutes. Fyodor Yurchikhin was at the controls.
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posted 03-17-2019 02:18 PM
Undocking to docking durations [minutes:seconds]:
Soyuz TM-31 ... 02/24/2001 ... [29:04]
Soyuz TM-31 ... 04/18/2001 ... [20:30]
Soyuz TM-32 ... 10/19/2001 ... [16:00]
Soyuz TM-33 ... 04/20/2002 ... [21:34]
Soyuz TMA-5 ... 11/29/2004 ... [20:48]
Soyuz TMA-6 ... 07/19/2005 ... [29:49]
Soyuz TMA-7 ... 11/18/2005 ... [19:38]
Soyuz TMA-7 ... 03/20/2006 ... [22:01]
Soyuz TMA-9 ... 10/10/2006 ... [20:10]
Soyuz TMA-9 ... 03/29/2007 ... [24:31]
Soyuz TMA-10 ... 09/27/2007 ... [27:10]
Soyuz TMA-14 ... 07/02/2009 ... [25:46]
Soyuz TMA-16 ... 01/21/2010 ... [20:41]
Soyuz TMA-17 ... 05/12/2010 ... [26:57]
Soyuz TMA-19 ... 06/28/2010 ... [24:10]
Soyuz TMA-09M ... 11/01/2013 ... [21:02]
Soyuz TMA-16M ... 08/28/2015 ... [17:41]
Soyuz MS-13 ... 08/26/2019 ... [24:06]
Soyuz MS-17 ... 03/19/2021 ... [34:07]
Soyuz MS-18 ... 09/28/2021 ... [42:39]
Soyuz MS-23 ... 04/06/2023 ... [36:49]
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posted 03-17-2019 04:58 PM
Thanks for providing those durations.
Soyuz TM-21 undocked from the Mir space station briefly in 1995 to take photos of the STS-71 undocking. Was that also a Soyuz relocation?
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posted 03-18-2019 07:54 AM
Prior to ISS, there were numerous Soyuz spacecraft relocations at the Salyut and Mir space stations, including these:
Soyuz TM-24 at Mir with Jerry Linenger in 1997
Soyuz TM-26 at Mir with Michael Foale in 1997
Soyuz TM-27 at Mir with Andrew Thomas in 1998
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posted 03-18-2019 12:24 PM
Soyuz TM-21 was docked to the same Kvant module like Soyuz TM-19 only.
At Salyut-6 were 4 Soyuz relocations: at Salyut-7 were 3 Soyuz relocations. At Mir station were 22 Soyuz relocations.
So with 17 ISS Soyuz relocations there were 46 at total from 1978.
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posted 03-19-2019 09:20 AM
It is interesting to note that on the earlier Soyuz relocations, the Soyuz spacecraft undocked a short distance, and then the Salyut space station was rotated to line up the new docking port with the Soyuz spacecraft.
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posted 03-19-2019 06:42 PM
quote:Originally posted by LM-12: Voss, Helms, Culbertson, Walz, Bursch and Anderson never launched or landed in a Soyuz spacecraft.
For the Expedition 2 (Voss and Helms) and 4 (Walz and Bursch) crews, who flew as the Soyuz Flight Engineer on each crew?
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posted 03-19-2019 08:38 PM
Not sure about Voss and Helms, but Walz sat in the left seat for the Soyuz TM-33 relocation.
Linenger and Thomas also never launched or landed in a Soyuz spacecraft.
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posted 03-20-2019 06:47 AM
quote:Originally posted by LM-12: the Salyut space station was rotated
The Mir space station was also rotated for the Soyuz TM-27 relocation in February 1998. Onboard the Soyuz spacecraft was the Mir-25 crew of Talgat Musabayev, Nikolai Budarin and Andrew Thomas. From NASA SP-4225:
...on February 20, the crew boarded the Soyuz capsule and backed away from Mir to free the Kvant-1 port for the redocking of the Progress capsule, which had been filled with trash and placed in a parking orbit on January 30. Instead of doing a fly-around as other crews had done, they held steady while ground controllers rotated Mir. Musabayev then manually flew the Soyuz back to a smooth docking at the transfer node recently vacated by the previous crew's Soyuz.
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posted 03-20-2019 03:31 PM
For Voss and Helms see at this photo.
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posted 03-21-2019 01:34 PM
quote:Originally posted by Skylon: For the Expedition 2 (Voss and Helms) and 4 (Walz and Bursch) crews
There were a few other Soyuz relocations at the ISS with two NASA astronauts onboard:
Soyuz TMA-9 relocation: Mikhail Tyurin, Michael Lopez-Alegria (left seat), and Sunita Williams
Soyuz TMA-19 relocation: Fyodor Yurchikhin, Shannon Walker (left seat), and Douglas Wheelock
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posted 03-21-2019 04:56 PM
quote:Originally posted by LM-12: The ISS was unoccupied during some of the relocations listed in the first post.
The ISS was unoccupied during the first 11 relocations. During some relocations five Soyuz were occupied by two men crew onboard only.
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posted 03-24-2019 04:58 PM
The Soyuz TM-9 spacecraft was relocated three times at the Mir space station during the six-month Expedition 6 mission in 1990.
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posted 03-25-2019 12:22 PM
The Soyuz TM-18 spacecraft was relocated at the Mir space station on January 24, 1994. The crew inspected Mir closely after what had happened ten days earlier.
NASA RP-1357 "MIR Hardware Heritage" has this description of the incident:
Soyuz-TM 17 struck Mir during the customary inspection fly-around prior to deorbit burn ... At 7:37:11 a.m. Moscow time (MT), on January 14, Soyuz-TM 17 separated from the forward port of the Mir station. At 7:43:59 a.m., the TsUP ordered Tsibliyev to steer Soyuz-TM 17 to within 15 m of the Kristall module to begin photography of the APAS-89 docking system. At 7:46:20 a.m., Tsibliyev complained that Soyuz-TM 17 was handling sluggishly. Serebrov, standing by for photography in the orbital module, then asked Tsibliyev to move the spacecraft out of the station plane because it was coming close to one of the solar arrays. In Mir, Viktor Afanasyev ordered Valeri Polyakov and Yuri Usachyov to evacuate to the Soyuz-TM 18 spacecraft. At 7:47:30 a.m., controllers in the TsUP saw the image from Soyuz-TM 17’s external camera shake violently, and Serebrov reported that Soyuz-TM 17 had hit Mir. The TsUP then lost communications with Mir and Soyuz-TM 17. Intermittent communications were restored with Soyuz-TM 17 at 7:52 a.m. Voice communications with Mir were not restored until 8:02 a.m. Inspection of Soyuz-TM 17 indicated no serious damage. In this connection, the Russians revealed that they had studied contingency reentries by depressurized spacecraft in the wake of the Soyuz 11 accident. The Mir cosmonauts did not feel the impact, though the station’s guidance system registered angular velocity and switched to free-flying mode. Later analysis indicated that the right side of the orbital module had struck Mir two glancing blows 2 sec apart. The impact point was on Kristall, near its connection to the Mir base block. The cause of the impact was traced to a switch error: the hand controller in the orbital module which governed braking and acceleration was switched on, disabling the equivalent hand controller (the left motion control lever) in the descent module. Tsibliyev was able to use the right lever to steer Soyuz past Mir’s solar arrays, antennas, and docking ports after it became clear impact was inevitable.
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posted 03-26-2019 01:46 PM
The Soyuz TM-24 relocation with Jerry Linenger occurred before the fire onboard Mir. The Soyuz TM-26 relocation with Michael Foale occurred after the Progress collision with the Mir space station.
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posted 06-27-2019 12:31 PM
Some of the Soyuz spacecraft had completely different crews for launch, relocation and landing:
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posted 06-28-2019 12:38 PM
Andrew Thomas is wearing David Wolf's Sokol spacesuit in this photo taken on the Mir space station. Did Thomas wear that suit for the Soyuz TM-27 relocation?
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posted 07-29-2019 08:53 AM
By my count, 58 different NASA astronauts have flown on the Soyuz spacecraft to date. That number includes the 8 NASA astronauts who have flown on Soyuz only for relocations.
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posted 07-29-2019 09:32 AM
Can you post the full list? Thanks.
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posted 07-29-2019 10:32 AM
NASA astronauts on Soyuz:
Norm Thagard (launch only)
William Shepherd (launch only)
Ed Lu
Ken Bowersox (landing only)
Donald Pettit
Michael Foale
Michael Fincke
Leroy Chiao
John Phillips
William McArthur
Jeff Williams
Michael Lopez-Alegria
Peggy Whitson
Michael Barratt
Timothy Creamer
Tracy Caldwell
Shannon Walker
Doug Wheelock
Scott Kelly
Catherine Coleman
Ron Garan
Michael Fossum
Dan Burbank
Joseph Acaba
Suni Williams
Kevin Ford
Thomas Marshburn
Christopher Cassidy
Karen Nyberg
Michael Hopkins
Richard Mastracchio
Steven Swanson
Reid Wiseman
Barry Wilmore
Terry Virts
Kjell Lindgren
Timothy Kopra
Kathleen Rubins
Robert Kimbrough
Jack Fischer
Randy Bresnik
Mark Vande Hei
Scott Tingle
Andrew Feustel
Richard Arnold
Serena Aunon-Chancellor
Nick Hague
Anne McClain
Christina Koch
Andrew Morgan
Jessica Meir
Frank Rubio
NASA astronauts on Soyuz (relocations only):
Jerry Linenger
Andrew Thomas
James Voss
Susan Helms
Frank Culbertson
Carl Walz
Daniel Bursch
Clayton Anderson
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posted 07-31-2019 06:16 AM
I have read that a Soyuz spacecraft relocation at ISS was planned for MS-10, had the launch succeeded.
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posted 08-24-2019 11:25 AM
After today's unmanned Soyuz MS-14 docking abort there is schedule the Soyuz MS-13 relocation from Zvezda to Poisk on Monday 8/26, after when Soyuz MS-14 will dock to empty Zvezda on Tuesday 8/27.
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posted 08-24-2019 11:40 AM
That is an interesting development. Thanks.
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posted 08-25-2019 11:17 AM
This is the current ISS configuration before the planned Soyuz MS-13 relocation later tonight.
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posted 08-26-2019 08:11 AM
I have added Soyuz MS-13 and Andrew Morgan to the first two lists.
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posted 08-26-2019 09:56 AM
I have added Soyuz MS-13 to undocking to docking durations list.
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posted 08-26-2019 10:39 AM
I wonder if Soyuz MS-13 will have to be relocated again before Soyuz MS-15 launches and docks next month.
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posted 08-26-2019 10:57 AM
No. Soyuz MS-15 will dock to Zvezda like Soyuz MS-14 tomorrow.
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posted 06-14-2020 03:04 PM
There is a Soyuz relocation at the ISS planned for the Soyuz MS-17 spacecraft (scheduled launch in October) before the Soyuz MS-18 spacecraft arrives there in April 2021.
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posted 06-14-2020 03:47 PM
A first scheduled Soyuz relocation from Rassvet to Poisk on ISS.
posted 02-25-2019 09:18 PM
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