Soyuz TMA-13 launched commander Yury Lonchakov, NASA's Michael Fincke, and spaceflight participant Richard Garriott to the ISS, docking two days later to begin Expedition 18 and relieve Sergei Volkov and Oleg Kononenko.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 7.3 T
- Flight
- 16th
- of 60 Soyuz FG flights
- Date and time
- 12 October 2008, 07:01 UTC
- Rocket
- Soyuz FG
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 1/5, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Human Exploration
- International designator
- 2008-050
- Launches in 2008
- 52nd of 69
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