Soyuz TMA-02M launch The expedition's first three crew members launched aboard
Soyuz TMA-02M from
Baikonur Cosmodrome,
Kazakhstan, at 21:18
UTC on 7 June 2011. The crew consisted of Sergey Volkov (
Roscosmos), Satoshi Furukawa (
JAXA), and Michael Fossum (
NASA). Their backups were
Oleg Kononenko (Roscosmos),
Donald Pettit (NASA), and
André Kuipers (ESA). Soyuz TMA-02M docked successfully to the ISS on 9 June 2011, at 5:19 pm
EDT.
Soyuz TMA-22 launch Soyuz TMA-22 launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome at 04:14 UTC on 14 November 2011, carrying Anton Shkaplerov and Anatoli Ivanishin (Roscosmos), and Daniel Burbank (NASA). The spacecraft was placed into a parking orbit, and docked successfully with the ISS at 5:24 am GMT on 16 November 2011.
Departure of Soyuz TMA-02M Expedition 29 concluded with the departure of Soyuz TMA-02M from the ISS at 11:00 pm
GMT on 21 November 2011, carrying astronauts Fossum, Volkov and Furukawa. The spacecraft soft-landed safely (albeit on its side) in
Kazakhstan at 2:26 am GMT on 22 November. ==References==