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Soyuz TMA-20M

Soyuz TMA-20M was the final Soyuz TMA-M crew flight to the International Space Station. It launched from Baikonur Site 1/5 on March 18, 2016 UTC with Roscosmos commander Aleksey Ovchinin, Roscosmos flight engineer Oleg Skripochka, and NASA flight engineer Jeffrey Williams. After a same-day six-hour rendezvous, the spacecraft docked with the station's Poisk module on March 19 UTC, adding the crew to Expeditions 47 and 48. The same three crewmembers returned aboard Soyuz TMA-20M on September 7, 2016, landing southeast of Dzhezkazgan, Kazakhstan after roughly 172 days in orbit.

Soyuz TMA-20M
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BurlakISS Soyuz 46SSoyuz TMA-20M / Expeditions 47-48
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Soyuz TMA-20M
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Soyuz TMA-20M was the final Soyuz TMA-M crew flight to the International Space Station. It launched from Baikonur Site 1/5 on March 18, 2016 UTC with Roscosmos commander Aleksey Ovchinin, Roscosmos flight engineer Oleg Skripochka, and NASA flight engineer Jeffrey Williams. After a same-day six-hour rendezvous, the spacecraft docked with the station's Poisk module on March 19 UTC, adding the crew to Expeditions 47 and 48. The same three crewmembers returned aboard Soyuz TMA-20M on September 7, 2016, landing southeast of Dzhezkazgan, Kazakhstan after roughly 172 days in orbit.
End Date
2016-09-07
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Successful final Soyuz TMA-M mission. The spacecraft delivered Ovchinin, Skripochka, and Williams to Expeditions 47-48 and returned all three safely after about 172 days.
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2016-03-18
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July 9, 2026 at 00:04:24 UTC
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July 29, 2026 at 08:53:52 UTC

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