Spacetrack Directory Name | SOYUZ-MS 13 |
Orbit launches | 2019-07-20 |
Deorbitation date | 2020-02-06 |
Days in orbit | 201 |
Country/organisation of origin | Commonwealth of Independent States (former USSR) (CIS) |
Starting point | TYMSC (Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan) |
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Height SOYUZ-MS 13 | 423.72 km |
Soyuz MS-13, also designated ISS flight 59S, is a Soyuz spaceflight launched on 20 July 2019 ? the day of the first moon landing ? carrying three members of the Expedition 60 crew to the International Space Station: a Russian commander, an American and a European flight engineer. MS-13 was the 142nd flight of a Soyuz spacecraft. It was at one point the last Soyuz flight contracted by NASA in the expectation that subsequent astronaut transport would be provided by the Commercial Crew Program, but in early 2019 NASA sought to purchase two additional Soyuz seats to provide greater certainty given delays in that program.