Soyuz TMA-14M was a 2014 flight to the International Space Station. It transported three members of the Expedition 41 crew to the International Space Station. TMA-14M is the 123rd flight of a

Soyuz spacecraft Soyuz () is a series of spacecraft which has been in service since the 1960s, having made more than 140 flights. It was designed for the Soviet space program by the Korolev Design Bureau (now Energia). The Soyuz succeeded the Voskhod spacecraf ...

, the first flight launching in 1967. The Soyuz remained docked to the space station for the

Expedition 42 Expedition 42 was the 42nd expedition to the International Space Station. It began on 10 November 2014 with the undocking of Soyuz TMA-13M, returning the crew of Expedition 41 to Earth and ended with the undocking of Soyuz TMA-14M on 11 March 201 ...

increment to serve as an emergency escape vehicle until undocking and landing as scheduled in March 2015.

Crew

Backup crew

Mission highlights

Launch, rendezvous and docking

Soyuz TMA-14M successfully launched aboard a Soyuz-FG rocket from the

Baikonur Cosmodrome The Baikonur Cosmodrome ( kk, Байқоңыр ғарыш айлағы, translit=Baiqoñyr ğaryş ailağy, ; russian: Космодром Байконур, translit=Kosmodrom Baykonur, ) is a spaceport in an area of southern Kazakhstan leased to R ...

in Kazakhstan at 20:25 UTC on Thursday, 25 September 2014 (2:25 AM Friday 26 September local time). The spacecraft reached low Earth orbit approximately nine minutes after lift-off. After reaching orbit, the

's port solar array failed to deploy, but eventually did deploy after docking with the ISS. According to NASA and the Russian Federal Space Agency, the solar array does not pose a threat to the success of the mission. Following a four-orbit rendezvous, the spacecraft docked with the

Poisk Poisk may refer to: *Poisk (computer), a Ukrainian(USSR) IBM PC XT clone (see List of Soviet computer systems) *Poisk (ISS module) ''Poisk'' (russian: Поиск, , Search), also known as the Mini-Research Module 2 (MRM 2), , or ''МИМ 2'', ...

module of the International Space Station just under six hours after launch, at 02:11 UTC on Friday, 26 September. Hatches between the two spacecraft were opened at 04:06 UTC. At this time, the crew of TMA-14M joined the crew of Expedition 41, where they were scheduled to remain until the crew of Soyuz TMA-13M departed in November 2014. Samokutyayev, Serova and Wilmore transferred to the crew of

at that time.

Undocking and return to Earth

TMA-14M remained docked to the ISS—serving as an emergency escape vehicle—until March 11, 2015, when it departed and returned Samokutyayev, Serova and Wilmore to Earth. After undocking from the ISS at 22:44 UTC on 11 March, the spacecraft deorbited and its descent module along with the mission crew landed safely just over three hours later, at 02:07 UTC on 12 March.

Gallery

File:Expedition 41 Rollout (201409230023HQ).jpg, The Soyuz rocket being rolled out to the launch pad. File:Expedition 41 Crew Wave (201409250001HQ).jpg, The crew waves to spectators before boarding the rocket. File:Expedition 41 Soyuz Launch (201409260002HQ).jpg, TMA-14M launches from the Baikonur Cosmodrome. File:Expedition 42 Soyuz TMA-14M Landing (201503120102HQ).jpg, Descent of the spacecraft on 12 March, 2015. File:Expedition 42 Soyuz TMA-14M Landing (201503120103HQ).jpg, TMA-14M descending towards landing.

In media

* In the 2014 film '' Gravity'', STS-157 Mission Specialist Dr. Ryan Stone pilots the damaged Soyuz TMA-14M spacecraft in her travel from the ISS to the Chinese '' Tiangong-1'' station and is able to hack the computer to separate the modules and activate the landing retrorockets in space as the capsule is out of fuel.

References

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