Soyuz TMA-16M carried Expedition 43 crew members Gennady Padalka, Mikhail Kornienko and NASA astronaut Scott Kelly to the ISS from Baikonur. Kelly and Kornienko began the first one-year stay aboard the station, part of a joint NASA-Roscosmos research mission.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 7.2 T
- Flight
- 41st
- of 60 Soyuz FG flights
- Date and time
- 27 March 2015, 19:42 UTC
- Rocket
- Soyuz FG
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 1/5, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Human Exploration
- International designator
- 2015-016
- Launches in 2015
- 17th of 87
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