Manned Spaceflights - 2009

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Flight Launch Landing Name Country   Parameters
STS-119 March 15, 2009
(23:43 GMT)
March 28, 2009
(19:13 GMT)
Commander: Lee Archambault
(2nd Flight) (NASA Group 17)
USA M Perigee: 400 km
Apogee: 400 km
Inclination: 51.6°
3 spacewalks
202 orbits
Pilot: Dominic Antonelli
(1st Flight) (NASA Group 18)
USA M
Launch Pad 39A
Kennedy Space Center,
Florida
70th landing at
Kennedy Space Center,
Florida (Runway 15)
Mission Specialist 1: Joseph Acaba
(1st Flight) (NASA Group 19)
USA M
Mission Specialist 2: Steven Swanson
(2nd Flight) (NASA Group 17)
USA M
Mission Specialist 3: Richard Arnold
(1st Flight) (NASA Group 19)
USA M
Space Shuttle
Discovery
(OV-103)
(36th Mission)
Docked with ISS
March 17, 2009

(21:20 GMT) (PMA-2)
Undocked from ISS
March 25, 2008

(19:53 GMT) (PMA-2)
Mission Specialist 4: John Phillips
(3rd Flight) (NASA Group 16)
USA M Time
12 days
19 hours
29 minutes
ISS 18 Flight Engineer 2: Koichi Wakata
(3rd Flight) (NASDA Group 2) (NASA Group 14)
(Down - STS-127) (137 days 15 hours 5 minutes)
Japan M
Backup ISS Crew 18: Soichi Noguchi Japan M

Soyuz TMA-14
(7K-STMA #224)
March 26, 2009
(11:49 GMT)
October 11, 2009
(04:31 GMT)
Commander: Gennadi Padalka
(3rd Flight) (TsPK Detachment - Group 10)
Russia M Perigee: 350 km
Apogee: 350 km
Inclination: 51.6°
2 spacewalks
3,130 orbits
Site-1 (Launch Pad 5)
Baikonur Cosmodrome
88 km NNE of Arkalyk
(51° 1' 26.1" N, 67° 12' 7.74" E)
Flight Engineer 1: Michael Barratt
(1st Flight) (NASA Group 18)
USA M
Docked with ISS
March 28, 2009

(13:05 GMT) (Zvezda aft)
Undocked from ISS
October 11, 2009

(01:07 GMT) (Pirs)
Commercial Cosmonaut: Charles Simonyi
(2nd Flight) (Space Adventures Group 5)
(Down - Soyuz TMA-13) (12 days 19 hours 27 minutes)
USA M
Launch Vehicle
Soyuz-FG #027
Port Relocation
July 2, 2009

(21:29 GMT - 21:55 GMT) (Zvezda aft to Pirs)
Backup Crew: Maksim Surayev Russia M Time
198 days
16 hours
42 minutes
Backup Crew: Jeffrey Williams USA M
Backup Crew: Esther Dyson USA F

STS-125 May 11, 2009
(18:01 GMT)
May 24, 2009
(15:39 GMT)
Commander: Scott Altman
(4th Flight) (NASA Group 15)
USA M Perigee: 563 km
Apogee: 563 km
Inclination: 28.45°
5 spacewalks
197 orbits
Pilot: Gregory Carl Johnson
(1st Flight) (NASA Group 17)
USA M
Mission Specialist 1: Michael Good
(1st Flight) (NASA Group 18)
USA M
Launch Pad 39A
Kennedy Space Center,
Florida
53rd landing at
Edwards Air Force Base,
California (Runway 22)
Mission Specialist 2: Megan McArthur
(1st Flight) (NASA Group 18)
USA F
Mission Specialist 3: John Grunsfeld
(5th Flight) (NASA Group 14)
USA M
Space Shuttle
Atlantis
(OV-104)
(30th Mission)
Grappled Hubble
May 13, 2009

(17:13 GMT)
Released Hubble
May 19, 2009

(12:57 GMT)
Mission Specialist 4: Michael Massimino
(2nd Flight) (NASA Group 16)
USA M Time
12 days
21 hours
38 minutes
Mission Specialist 5: Andrew Feustel
(1st Flight) (NASA Group 18)
USA M

Soyuz TMA-15
(7K-STMA #225)
May 27, 2009
(10:34 GMT)
December 1, 2009
(07:15 GMT)
Flight Engineer 3 (Soyuz Commander): Roman Romanenko
(1st Flight) (TsPK Detachment - Group 12)
Russia M Perigee: 350 km
Apogee: 350 km
Inclination: 51.6°
2,960 orbits
Flight Engineer 4: Robert Thirsk
(2nd Flight) (CSA Group 1) (NASA Group 17)
Canada M
Site-1 (Launch Pad 5)
Baikonur Cosmodrome
99 km NNE of Arkalyk
(51° 6' 18.18" N, 67° 17' 17.7" E)
Flight Engineer 5 (ISS Commander): Frank De Winne
(2nd Flight) (EAC Group - OasISS Mission)
Belgium M
Launch Vehicle
Soyuz-FG #030
Docked with ISS
May 29, 2009

(12:34 GMT) (Zarya nadir)
Undocked from ISS
December 1, 2009

(03:56 GMT) (Zarya nadir)
Backup Crew: Dmitri Kondratiyev Russia M Time
187 days
20 hours
41 minutes
Backup Crew: André Kuipers Netherlands M
Backup Crew: Chris Hadfield Canada M

STS-127 July 15, 2009
(22:03 GMT)
July 31, 2009
(14:48 GMT)
Commander: Mark Polansky
(3rd Flight) (NASA Group 16)
USA M Perigee: 350 km
Apogee: 350 km
Inclination: 51.6°
5 spacewalks
248 orbits
Pilot: Douglas Hurley
(1st Flight) (NASA Group 18)
USA M
Launch Pad 39A
Kennedy Space Center,
Florida
71st landing at
Kennedy Space Center,
Florida (Runway 15)
Mission Specialist 1: Christopher Cassidy
(1st Flight) (NASA Group 19)
USA M
Mission Specialist 2: Julie Payette
(2nd Flight) (CSA Group 2) (NASA Group 16)
Canada F
Mission Specialist 3: Thomas Marshburn
(1st Flight) (NASA Group 19)
USA M
Space Shuttle
Endeavour
(OV-105)
(23rd Mission)
Docked with ISS
July 17, 2009

(17:47 GMT) (PMA-2)
Undocked from ISS
July 28, 2009

(17:26 GMT) (PMA-2)
Mission Specialist 4: David Wolf
(4th Flight) (NASA Group 13)
USA M Time
15 days
16 hours
45 minutes
ISS 20 Flight Engineer 2: Timothy Kopra
(1st Flight) (NASA Group 18)
(Down - STS-128) (58 days 2 hours 50 minutes)
USA M
Backup ISS Crew 20: Timothy Creamer USA M

STS-128 August 29, 2009
(03:59 GMT)
September 12, 2009
(00:53 GMT)
Commander: Frederick "Rick" Sturckow
(4th Flight) (NASA Group 15)
USA M Perigee: 350 km
Apogee: 350 km
Inclination: 51.6°
3 spacewalks
219 orbits
Pilot: Kevin Ford
(1st Flight) (NASA Group 18)
USA M
Launch Pad 39A
Kennedy Space Center,
Florida
54th & final landing at
Edwards Air Force Base,
California (Runway 22)
Mission Specialist 1: Patrick Forrester
(3rd Flight) (NASA Group 16)
USA M
Mission Specialist 2: José Hernández
(1st Flight) (NASA Group 19)
USA M
Mission Specialist 3: John "Danny" Olivas
(2nd Flight) (NASA Group 17)
USA M
Space Shuttle
Discovery
(OV-103)
(37th Mission)
Docked with ISS
August 31, 2009

(00:54 GMT) (PMA-2)
Undocked from ISS
September 8, 2009

(19:26 GMT) (PMA-2)
Mission Specialist 4: Christer Fuglesang
(2nd Flight) (EAC Group - Alissé Mission) (NASA Group 16)
Sweden M Time
13 days
20 hours
53 minutes
ISS 20/21 Flight Engineer 2: Nicole Stott
(1st Flight) (NASA Group 18)
(Down - STS-129) (90 days 10 hours 45 minutes)
USA F
Backup ISS Crew 20/21: Catherine Coleman USA F

Soyuz TMA-16
(7K-STMA #226)
September 30, 2009
(07:14 GMT)
March 18, 2010
(11:24 GMT)
Flight Engineer 1 (Soyuz Commander): Maksim Surayev
(1st Flight) (TsPK Detachment - Group 12)
Russia M Perigee: 350 km
Apogee: 350 km
Inclination: 51.6°
2,669 orbits
Site-1 (Launch Pad 5)
Baikonur Cosmodrome
63 km NE of Arkalyk
(50° 46' 51.4" N, 67° 27' 53.3" E)
Flight Engineer 5 (ISS Commander): Jeffrey Williams
(3rd Flight) (NASA Group 16)
USA M
Docked with ISS
October 2, 2009

(08:35 GMT) (Zvezda aft)
Undocked from ISS
March 18, 2010

(08:03 GMT) (Poisk)
Commercial Cosmonaut: Guy Laliberté
(1st Flight) (Space Adventures Group 7)
(Down - Soyuz TMA-14) (10 days 21 hours 16 minutes)
Canada M
Launch Vehicle
Soyuz-FG #029
Port Relocation
January 21, 2010

(10:03 GMT - 10:24 GMT) (Zvezda aft to Poisk)
Backup Crew: Aleksandr Skvortsov Jr. Russia M Time
169 days
4 hours
7 minutes
Backup Crew: Shannon Walker USA F
Backup Crew: Barbara Barrett USA F

Poisk
(Progress MIM-2 #302)
November 10, 2009
(14:22 GMT)
Currently in orbit Poisk Mini Research Module 2 (240GK No. 2L)
(International Space Station module)
Russia   Perigee: 193 km
Apogee: 252 km
Inclination: 51.6°
Launch Vehicle
Soyuz-U #121
Site-1 (Launch Pad 5)
Baikonur Cosmodrome
Docked with ISS
November 12, 2009

(15:41 GMT) (Zvezda zenith)
Currently in orbit

STS-129 November 16, 2009
(19:28 GMT)
November 27, 2009
(14:44 GMT)
Commander: Charles Hobaugh
(3rd Flight) (NASA Group 16)
USA M Perigee: 337 km
Apogee: 345 km
Inclination: 51.6°
3 spacewalks
171 orbits
Pilot: Barry Wilmore
(1st Flight) (NASA Group 18)
USA M
Launch Pad 39A
Kennedy Space Center,
Florida
72nd landing at
Kennedy Space Center,
Florida (Runway 33)
Mission Specialist 1: Leland Melvin
(2nd Flight) (NASA Group 17)
USA M
Mission Specialist 2: Randolph Bresnik
(1st Flight) (NASA Group 19)
USA M
Space Shuttle
Atlantis (OV-104)
(31st Mission)
Docked with ISS
November 18, 2009

(16:51 GMT) (PMA-2)
Undocked from ISS
November 25, 2009

(09:53 GMT) (PMA-2)
Mission Specialist 3: Michael Foreman
(2nd Flight) (NASA Group 17)
USA M Time
10 days
19 hours
16 minutes
Mission Specialist 4: Robert "Bobby" Satcher
(1st Flight) (NASA Group 19)
USA M

Soyuz TMA-17
(7K-STMA #227)
December 20, 2009
(21:52 GMT)
June 2, 2010
(03:24 GMT)
Flight Engineer 4 (ISS Commander): Oleg Kotov
(2nd Flight) (MKS - Kirov Military Medical Academy - Physician VVS)
Russia M Perigee: 350 km
Apogee: 350 km
Inclination: 51.6°
1 spacewalk
2,574 orbits
Site-1 (Launch Pad 5)
Baikonur Cosmodrome
135 km SE of Dzhezkazgan
(47° 18' 45.66" N, 69° 37' 58.44" E)
Flight Engineer 5: Soichi Noguchi
(2nd Flight) (JAXA/NASDA Group 3) (NASA Group 16)
Japan M
Docked with ISS
December 22, 2009

(22:48 GMT) (Zarya nadir)
Undocked from ISS
June 2, 2010

(00:04 GMT) (Zvezda aft)
Flight Engineer 6: Timothy Creamer
(1st Flight) (NASA Group 17)
USA M
Launch Vehicle
Soyuz-FG #031
Port Relocation
May 12, 2010

(13:26 GMT - 13:53 GMT) (Zarya nadir to Zvezda aft)
Backup Crew: Anton Shkaplerov Russia M Time
163 days
5 hours
32 minutes
Backup Crew: Douglas Wheelock USA M
Backup Crew: Satoshi Furukawa Japan M

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