Soyuz TMA-06M

Soyuz TMA-06M launched on 23 October 2012 was a spaceflight to the ISS. transporting three members of the Expedition 33 crew. TMA-06M was the 115th flight of a Soyuz spacecraft, the first flight launching in 1967. Soyuz TMA-06M launch was also the first manned flight from the remote Site 31 pad since July 1984.

The Soyuz remained on board the space statioN for the Expedition 33 increment to serve as an emergency escape vehicle. Soyuz TMA-06M successfully returned to Earth on 15 March 2013.

Commander: Oleg Novitskiy, Roscosmos
Expedition 33

Flight Engineer 1: Evgeny Tarelkin, Roscosmos
Expedition 33

Flight Engineer 2: Kevin A. Ford, NASA
Expedition 33

Backup Crew

• Commander: Pavel Vinogradov, Roscosmos (R)
• Flight Engineer 1: Aleksandr Misurkin, Roscosmos (M)
• Flight Engineer 2: Christopher Cassidy, NASA (L)

Flight Info

• Launched: Oct. 23,2012
• Landed: March 15, 2013
• Duration: 143d 16h 20m

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Soyuz TMA-06M carried 32 Medaka fish that will be used to test how conditions In space impact on living organisms. The fish will live inside a fish tank, called the Aquatic Habitat (AQH) in the Japanese Kibo Lab Module, which was delivered to the space station by JAXA's Kounotori 3 spacecraft in July 2012.