Soyuz TMA-19M

Yuri Malenchenko

• Birthday: 12/22/1961
• Role: Commander
• Nationality: Russia
• First Flight: 07/01/1994
• Last Flight: 12/15/2015

Yuri Ivanovich Malenchenko (Russian: Юрий Иванович Маленченко; born December 22, 1961) is a retired Rus...

Tim Peake

• Birthday: 04/07/1972
• Role: Flight Engineer
• Nationality: United Kingdom
• First Flight: 12/15/2015
• Last Flight: 12/15/2015

Major Timothy Nigel Peake CMG is a British Army Air Corps officer, former European Space Agency astronaut and International S...

Timothy Kopra

• Birthday: 04/09/1963
• Role: Flight Engineer
• Nationality: United States of America
• First Flight: 07/15/2009
• Last Flight: 12/15/2015

Timothy Lennart "Tim" Kopra is an engineer, a Colonel in the United States Army and a retired NASA astronaut. He se...

Mission

Soyuz TMA-19M

• Type: Human Exploration
• Orbit: Low Earth Orbit

Soyuz TMA-19M begins expedition 46 by carrying 3 astronauts to the International Space Station. NASA astronaut Tim Kopra, ESA astronaut Tim Peake, and Yuri Malenchenko of Roscosmos will launch aboard the Soyuz spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan and then rendezvous with the station. Tim Peake will be the first UK astronaut in space for over 20 years and the first every British citizen to visit the ISS.
It landed on 18 June 2016 09:15 UTC

Location

1/5

Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan

1/5 has witnessed the launch of 487 rockets, including 487 orbital launch attempts. While Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan, has been the site for 1553 rocket launches.

The Baikonur Cosmodrome is a spaceport operated by Russia within Kazakhstan. Located in the Kazakh city of Baikonur, it is the largest operational space launch facility in terms of area. All Russian crewed spaceflights are launched from Baikonur.

Rocket

Progress Rocket Space Center Soyuz FG

The Soyuz FG rocket is an expendable launch vehicle most commonly known for carrying humans to the International Space Station today.

Learn more about the Soyuz FG

Agency

Russian Federal Space Agency (ROSCOSMOS)

The Roscosmos State Corporation for Space Activities, commonly known as Roscosmos, is the governmental body responsible for the space science program of the Russian Federation and general aerospace research. Soyuz has many launch locations the Russian sites are Baikonur, Plesetsk and Vostochny however Ariane also purchases the vehicle and launches it from French Guiana.