Launched Soyuz TMA-8 to the ISS carrying Expedition 13 crew Pavel Vinogradov and Jeffrey Williams, along with Brazilian spaceflight participant Marcos Pontes, the first Brazilian in space. It docked with the Zarya module two days later.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 7.2 T
- Flight
- 11th
- of 60 Soyuz FG flights
- Date and time
- 30 March 2006, 02:30 UTC
- Rocket
- Soyuz FG
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 1/5, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Human Exploration
- International designator
- 2006-009
- Launches in 2006
- 10th of 66
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