Spaceflight mission report: Soyuz TMA-10

Human Spaceflights

International Flight No. 249 Soyuz TMA-10 Pulsar Russia
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Launch, orbit and landing data

Launch date:	07.04.2007
Launch time:	17:31 UTC
Launch site:	Baikonur
Launch pad:	1
Altitude:	323 - 345 km
Inclination:	51,63 °
Docking ISS:	09.04.2007, 19:10 UTC
Undocking ISS:	21.10.2007, 07:14 UTC
Landing date:	21.10.2007
Landing time:	10:36 UTC
Landing site:	50° 29' 01'' N, 62° 17' 20'' E

Crew

No.	Surname	Given names	Position	Flight No.	Duration	Orbits
1	Kotov	Oleg Valeriyevich	Commander	1	196d 17h 05m	3106
2	Yurchikhin	Fyodor Nikolayevich	Flight Engineer	2	196d 17h 05m	3106
3	Simonyi	Charles "Károly"	Spaceflight Participant	1	13d 19h 00m	219

Crew seating arrangement

Launch
1	Kotov
2	Yurchikhin
3	Simonyi

Landing
1	Kotov
2	Yurchikhin
3	Muszaphar Shukor

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Double Crew

No.	Surname	Given names	Position
1	Romanenko	Roman Yuriyevich	Commander
2	Korniyenko	Mikhail Borisovich	Flight Engineer

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Flight

Launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome; landing 338 km west of the intended site in Kazakhstan due of a ballistic descent.

Charles Simonyi was another space tourist. This mission was the ISS expedition 15. Following a two day solo flight Soyuz TMA-10 docked with the ISS on April 09, 2007. Oleg Kotov and Fyodor Yurchikhin replaced the expedition 14 crew.

The landing occured in an unexpected ballistic descent to Earth (for the first time since Soyuz TMA-1). So the landing was one minute earlier than planned, harder (up to 9g, normal 4g) and about 300 kilometres short from the target landing point, but the crew was in good condition and safe.