Spaceflight mission report Soyuz MS-18

Human Spaceflights

International Flight No. 321 Soyuz MS-18 Yuri A. Gagarin Kazbek Russia
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Launch, orbit and landing data

Launch date:	09.04.2021
Launch time:	07:42:40.496 UTC
Launch site:	Baikonur
Launch pad:	31
Altitude:	400 km
Inclination:	51.66°
Docking ISS:	09.04.2021, 11:05:01 UTC
Undocking ISS:	17.10.2021, 01:14:05 UTC
Landing date:	17.10.2021
Landing time:	04:35:42 UTC
Landing site:	47°21'N, 69°38'E

Crew

No.	Surname	Given names	Position	Flight No.	Duration	Orbits
1	Novitsky	Oleg Viktorovich	Commander	3	190d 20h 53m 02s	3056
2	Dubrov	Pyotr Valerievich	Flight Engineer	1	355d 03h 45m 24s	5680
3	Vande Hei	Mark Thomas	Flight Engineer	2	355d 03h 45m 24s	5680

Crew seating arrangement

Launch
1	Novitsky
2	Dubrov
3	Vande Hei

Landing
1	Novitsky
2	Shipenko
3	Peresild

Backup Crew

No.	Surname	Given names	Position
1	Shkaplerov	Anton Nikolayevich	Commander
2	Artemyev	Oleg Germanovich	Flight Engineer
3	McClain	Anne Charlotte "Annimal"	Flight Engineer

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Hardware

Launch vehicle:	Soyuz-2.1a (No. Kh15000-046)
Spacecraft:	Soyuz MS-18 (MS No. 748)

Flight

Launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome. The spacecraft was named after Yuri Gagarin. ISS Expedition 64 / 65. Landing 148 km southeast of Dzheskasgan.

Due to medical reasons on January 11, 2021 Andrei Babkin was replaced by Oleg Artemyev in the backup crew.

Following an only three-hours solo flight Soyuz MS-18 docked to ISS on April 09, 2021. Oleg Novitsky, Pyotr Dubrov and Mark Vande Hei became the ISS Expedition 64 (together with ISS Expedition 63 crew members Sergei Ryzhikov, Sergei Kud-Sverchkov and Kathleen Rubins along with SpaceX Crew-1 astronauts Michael Hopkins, Victor Glover, Soichi Noguchi and Shannon Walker). With the arrival of Soyuz MS-18 ISS Expedition 64 became a ten-person-crew.