Soyuz-FG launched Soyuz TMA-16 to the ISS carrying Expedition 21 crew members Maxim Suraev and Jeffrey Williams alongside Cirque du Soleil founder Guy Laliberte as a spaceflight participant.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 7.2 T
- Flight
- 19th
- of 60 Soyuz FG flights
- Date and time
- 30 September 2009, 07:14 UTC
- Rocket
- Soyuz FG
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 1/5, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Human Exploration
- International designator
- 2009-053
- Launches in 2009
- 56th of 78
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