Carried Soyuz TMA-17 to orbit with Expedition 22 crew members Oleg Kotov, Soichi Noguchi and T.J. Creamer, docking with the ISS two days later for a mission that continued through Expedition 23.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 7.2 T
- Flight
- 20th
- of 60 Soyuz FG flights
- Date and time
- 20 December 2009, 21:52 UTC
- Rocket
- Soyuz FG
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 1/5, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Human Exploration
- International designator
- 2009-074
- Launches in 2009
- 77th of 78
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