Soyuz TMA-15
Date of launch: May 27, 2009
Launch site: Russian Baykonur Cosmodrome (Kazakhstan).
Launch vehicle: the "Soyuz FG” rocket-carrier.
Launch crew:
Commander - Roman ROMANENKO (Russia) - middle
Flight-engineer – Frank DE WINNE (Belgium) - right
Flight-engineer 2 – Robert THIRSK (Canada) - left
Brief Summary: On May 29, 2009 the Soyuz TMA-15 spacecraft docked with the ISS (the ISS / Soyuz TMA-14 / Progress M-02M complex).
The docking was performed to the nadir docking port of the "Zarya” module.
On December 01, 2009 the Soyuz TMA-15 spacecraft undocked from the ISS (the ISS / Soyuz TMA-16 / Progress M-03M complex).
Landing crew:
Commander - Roman ROMANENKO (Russia)
Flight-engineer – Frank DE WINNE (Belgium)
Flight-engineer 2 – Robert THIRSK (Canada)
Date of landing: December 01, 2009.
Place of landing: 84 km to the North of Arkalyk, Kazakhstan.