Q: What was the purpose of Soyuz TMA-9?

A: Soyuz TMA-9 was a crew rotation mission to the International Space Station, delivering Expedition 14 crew members and two private astronauts. It served as both a transportation vehicle and emergency return spacecraft for ISS crew members.

Q: Who were the crew members of Soyuz TMA-9?

A: The crew consisted of Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Tyurin (spacecraft commander), American astronaut Michael López-Alegría (flight engineer), Iranian-American entrepreneur Anousheh Ansari (first female space tourist), and Hungarian-American software executive Charles Simonyi (second private astronaut).

Q: How long did Soyuz TMA-9 stay in space?

A: Soyuz TMA-9 spent 197 days in space, from its launch on September 18, 2006, to its landing on April 21, 2007, completing 3,170 orbits around Earth.

Soyuz TMA-9

soyuz space program mission

Vehicle soyuz_tma Q591584

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Instance of: Soyuz-TMA, human spaceflight^[2]
Follows: Soyuz TMA-8^[4]
Followed by: Soyuz TMA-10^[5]
Launch date: 2006-09-18
Part of: Soyuz programme^[6]
Duration: 18,606,120 second
Apoapsis: 242 km
Crew member: Mikhail Tyurin, Michael López-Alegría, Anousheh Ansari, Charles Simonyi
Crew members: Mikhail Tyurin, Michael López-Alegría, Anousheh Ansari, Charles Simonyi
Docking port: Zvezda^[9]
Landing date: 2007-04-21
Launch vehicle: Soyuz-FG
Location of landing: Kazakhstan
Mass: 7,270 kg
Native label: Союз ТМА-9
Operator: Roscosmos State Corporation^[3]
Orbital inclination: 51.63 degree
Orbital period: 88.64 minute
Orbits completed: 3,170
Periapsis: 200 km
Satellite of: low Earth orbit
Significant event: rocket launch, atmospheric entry, docking and berthing of spacecraft, landing, docking and berthing of spacecraft, undocking, undocking^[14]^[15]^[16]^[17]^[18]
Space launch vehicle: Soyuz-FG^[7]
Spacecraft docking/undocking date: September 20, 2006^[13]

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Start point: Baikonur Cosmodrome
Time of object orbit decay: April 21, 2007^[12]
Type of orbit: low Earth orbit^[8]
UTC date of spacecraft landing: April 21, 2007^[11]
UTC date of spacecraft launch: September 18, 2006^[10]
Vessel: Soyuz-TMA

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Image (Wikimedia Commons): Soyuz TMA-9 launch.jpg ↗
COSPAR ID: 2006-040A
Freebase ID: /m/0c3yhz
SCN: 29400
Wolfram Language entity code: Entity["Satellite", "29400"]

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Significant event 5

landing, atmospheric entry, docking and berthing of spacecraft, docking and berthing of spacecraft, rocket launch

Crew members 4

Anousheh Ansari, Charles Simonyi, Mikhail Tyurin, Michael López-Alegría

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Anousheh Ansari, Charles Simonyi, Mikhail Tyurin, Michael López-Alegría

Instance of 2

human spaceflight, Soyuz-TMA

Belongs to 1

Soyuz programme

Docking port 1

Zvezda

Followed by 1

Soyuz TMA-10

Followed by (predecessor) 1

Soyuz TMA-10

Follows 1

Soyuz TMA-8

Location of landing 1

Kazakhstan

Operator 1

Roscosmos State Corporation

Part of 1

Soyuz programme

Preceded by (successor) 1

Soyuz TMA-8

Space launch vehicle 1

Soyuz-FG

Start point 1

Baikonur Cosmodrome

Type of orbit 1

low Earth orbit

Vessel 1

Soyuz-TMA

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Summary

Soyuz TMA-9 is a Soyuz-TMA^[1].

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Direct Wikidata claims

[2] ↑ Soyuz TMA-9 — instance of (P31): human spaceflight. wikidata.org.
[3] ↑ Soyuz TMA-9 — operator (P137): Roscosmos State Corporation. wikidata.org.
[4] ↑ Soyuz TMA-9 — follows (P155): Soyuz TMA-8. wikidata.org.
[5] ↑ Soyuz TMA-9 — followed by (P156): Soyuz TMA-10. wikidata.org.
[6] ↑ Soyuz TMA-9 — part of (P361): Soyuz programme. wikidata.org.
[7] ↑ Soyuz TMA-9 — space launch vehicle (P375): Soyuz-FG. Jonathan's Space Report. wikidata.org.
[8] ↑ Soyuz TMA-9 — type of orbit (P522): low Earth orbit. wikidata.org.
[9] ↑ Soyuz TMA-9 — docking port (P546): Zvezda. wikidata.org.
[10] ↑ Soyuz TMA-9 — UTC date of spacecraft launch (P619): September 18, 2006. Jonathan's Space Report. wikidata.org.
[11] ↑ Soyuz TMA-9 — UTC date of spacecraft landing (P620): April 21, 2007. wikidata.org.
[12] ↑ Soyuz TMA-9 — time of object orbit decay (P621): April 21, 2007. wikidata.org.
[13] ↑ Soyuz TMA-9 — spacecraft docking/undocking date (P622): September 20, 2006. wikidata.org.
[14] ↑ Soyuz TMA-9 — significant event (P793): rocket launch. wikidata.org.
[15] ↑ Soyuz TMA-9 — significant event (P793): atmospheric entry. wikidata.org.
[16] ↑ Soyuz TMA-9 — significant event (P793): docking and berthing of spacecraft. wikidata.org.
[17] ↑ Soyuz TMA-9 — significant event (P793): landing. wikidata.org.
[18] ↑ Soyuz TMA-9 — significant event (P793): docking and berthing of spacecraft. wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

[1] ↑ Soyuz TMA-9 is an instance of Soyuz-TMA (Q2425489) [P31, primary]. Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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