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Soyuz MS 04

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Spacecraft type
  
Soyuz-MS 11F747

Callsign
  
Olimp (Olympus)

Start date
  
April 20, 2017

Crew size
  
2

Regime
  
Low Earth orbit

Manufacturer
  
RKK Energia

Launch date
  
20 April 2017

Rocket
  
Soyuz-FG

Reference system
  
Geocentric orbit

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Operator
  
Roscosmos State Corporation

Members
  
Fyodor Yurchikhin, Jack D. Fischer

Soyuz MS-04 is a Soyuz spaceflight planned for 20 April 2017. It will transport two members of the Expedition 51 crew to the International Space Station. MS-04 will be the 133rd flight of a Soyuz spacecraft. The crew will consist of a Russian commander and an American flight engineer.

Backup crew

Due to a decision to cut down the number of participating Russian astronauts in 2017, only two astronauts will be launched on Soyuz MS-04. Originally set to include 3 people, the crew assignments have been changed in November 2016 by NASA and RSA. Of the original crew, Alexander Misurkin and Mark T. Vande Hei have been assigned to Soyuz MS-06 instead.

References

Soyuz MS-04 Wikipedia