Soyuz TMA-21

Tarkhaniy

Russia

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Launch, orbit and landing data

Launch date:	04.04.2011
Launch time:	22:18 UTC
Launch site:	Baikonur
Launch pad:	1
Altitude:	350 km
Inclination:	51,6°
Docking ISS:	06.04.2011, 23:09 UTC
Undocking ISS:	16.09.2011, 00:38 UTC
Landing date:	16.09.2011
Landing time:	03:59 UTC
Landing site:	47°19'11,6" N, 69°30'06,8" E

Crew

No.	Surname	Given names	Position	Flight No.	Duration	Orbits
1	Samokutyayev	Aleksandr Mikhailovich	Commander	1	164d 05h 41m	2576
2	Borisenko	Andrei Ivanovich	Flight Engineer	1	164d 05h 41m	2576
3	Garan	Ronald John, Jr.	Flight Engineer	2	164d 05h 41m	2576

Crew seating arrangement

Launch
1	Samokutyayev
2	Borisenko
3	Garan

Landing
1	Samokutyayev
2	Borisenko
3	Garan

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Double Crew

No.	Surname	Given names	Position
1	Shkaplerov	Anton Nikolayevich	Commander
2	Ivanishin	Anatoli Alekseyevich	Flight Engineer
3	Burbank	Daniel Christopher	Flight Engineer

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Flight

Launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome. Landing 144 km southeast of Dzheskasgan. ISS expedition 27 / 28.

Following a two day solo flight Soyuz TMA-21 docked to ISS on April 06, 2011. Aleksandr Samokutyayev, Andrei Borisenko and Ronald Garan became the ISS expedition 27 (together with ISS expedition 26 crew members Dmitri Kondratiyev, Paolo Nespoli and Catherine Coleman).