Soyuz TMA-9 launched from Baikonur carrying Expedition 14 crew Mikhail Tyurin and Michael Lopez-Alegria along with spaceflight participant Anousheh Ansari, the first female private space tourist, to the ISS.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 7.2 T
- Flight
- 12th
- of 60 Soyuz FG flights
- Date and time
- 18 September 2006, 04:08 UTC
- Rocket
- Soyuz FG
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 1/5, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Human Exploration
- International designator
- 2006-040
- Launches in 2006
- 43rd of 66
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