Mission type ISS crew transport SATCAT no. 39373 Spacecraft type Soyuz-TMA 11F747 Dates 7 Nov 2013 – 14 May 2014 Rocket Soyuz-FG | COSPAR ID 2013-061A Spacecraft Soyuz 11F732A47 No.711 Launch date 7 November 2013 Landing date 14 May 2014 Launch site Baikonur Cosmodrome | |
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Mission duration 187 days, 21 hours, 44 minutes Operator Roscosmos State Corporation Members Mikhail Tyurin, Richard Mastracchio, Koichi Wakata | ||
Soyuz TMA-11M was a 2013 flight to the International Space Station. It transported three members of the Expedition 38 crew to the International Space Station. TMA-11M is the 120th flight of a Soyuz spacecraft, with the first flight launching in 1967. The successful docking of the Soyuz TMA-11M spacecraft on November 7, 2013 marked the first time since October 2009 that nine people have resided on the space station without the presence of a space shuttle.
The rocket and spacecraft applied Olympic symbols on the cowl of the ship. During mission, the Olympic torch has been passed for the first time in open space, Russian cosmonauts Oleg Kotov and Sergey Ryazansky passed it at the outlet of the International Space Station.
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TMA-11M carried the Olympic flame for the 2014 Winter Olympics into space for the first time. The torch returned to Earth 5 days later on board TMA-09M.