Soyuz TMA-17
Date of launch: December 21, 2009 at 00:52 Moscow time (on December 20, 2009 at 21:52 UTC) Launch site: Russian Baykonur Cosmodrome (Kazakhstan).
Launch vehicle: the "Soyuz FG” rocket-carrier.
Launch crew:
Commander - Oleg KOTOV (Russia)
Flight-engineer – Timothy CREAMER (USA)
Flight-engineer - Soichi NOGUCHI (Japan)
Brief Summary: Delivery of the new crew to the ISS.
On December 23, 2009 at 01:48 Moscow time (on December 22, 2009 at 22:48 UTC) the Soyuz TMA-17 spacecraft docked with the ISS (the ISS / Soyuz TMA-16 / Progress M-03 complex) The docking was performed to the nadir docking port of the FGB "Zarya” module.
On May 12, 2010 the Soyuz TMA-17 undocked from the FGB ("Zarya” module) nadir docking port and in 20 minutes docked to the "Zvezda” module. The redocking was performed by Oleg KOTOV, Timothy CREAMER, Soichi NOGUCHI.
On June 2, 2010 the "Soyuz TMA-17” spacecraft undocked from the ISS (the ISS / Soyuz TMA-18 / Progress M-05M complex). The spacecraft undocked from the "Zvezda” module.
Landing crew:
Commander - Oleg KOTOV (Russia)
Flight-engineer – Timothy CREAMER (USA)
Flight-engineer - Soichi NOGUCHI (Japan)
Date of landing: June 2, 2010.
Place of landing: 154 km to South-East from the city of Dzgezkazgan, Kazakhstan.
