Soyuz MS-13, also designated ISS flight 59S, was a crewed Soyuz mission launched on 20 July 2019 – the 50th anniversary of the first moon landing – carrying three members of the

Expedition 60 Expedition 60 was the 60th Expedition to the International Space Station, which began on 24 June 2019 with the undocking of the Soyuz MS-11 spacecraft. The expedition was commanded by Aleksey Ovchinin, who transferred from Expedition 59 together ...

crew to the International Space Station: a Russian commander, an American and a European flight engineer. Soyuz MS-13 was the 142nd flight of a Soyuz spacecraft. It was at one point the last Soyuz flight contracted by NASA in the expectation that subsequent astronaut transport would be provided by the Commercial Crew Program, but in early 2019 NASA sought to purchase two additional Soyuz seats to provide greater certainty given delays in that program.

Crew

Backup crew

Relocation

The Soyuz crew relocated the MS-13 spacecraft from the aft port of the ''Zvezda'' module and performed a manual docking on the ''Poisk'' module on 26 August 2019. This cleared the way for Soyuz MS-14 to perform an automatic docking on ''Zvezda'', after a faulty signal amplifier on ''Poisk'' caused MS-14's first docking attempt to abort on 24 August 2019. The last time a Soyuz spacecraft was relocated was in August 2015 during the Soyuz TMA-16M mission.

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