Soyuz TMA-15 carried Expedition 20 crew members Roman Romanenko, Frank De Winne and Robert Thirsk to the International Space Station, docking two days later. The mission marked the start of permanent six-person ISS crew operations.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 7.2 T
- Flight
- 18th
- of 60 Soyuz FG flights
- Date and time
- 27 May 2009, 10:34 UTC
- Rocket
- Soyuz FG
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 1/5, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Human Exploration
- International designator
- 2009-030
- Launches in 2009
- 32nd of 78
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