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Topic: Three Soyuz docked at ISS at the same time
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LM-12
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From: Ontario, Canada
Registered: Oct 2010
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posted 09-01-2025 03:01 PM
  
I think for about a week in 2009 during Expedition 20 there were three crewed Soyuz spacecraft (TMA-14, TMA-15 and TMA-16) docked at the International Space Station at the same time. Is that correct? |
Robert Pearlman
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From: Houston, TX
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posted 09-01-2025 04:19 PM
Yes (Expedition 20 extended from May to October 2009). - March 28, 2009: Soyuz TMA-14 docked (aft Zvezda)
- May 29, 2009; Soyuz TMA-15 docked (nadir Zarya)
- Oct. 2, 2009: Soyuz TMA-16 docked (aft Zvezda)
(On edit: Corrected based on the replies below.) - Oct. 11, 2009: Soyuz TMA-14 undocked (nadir Pirs)
- December 1, 2009: Soyuz TMA-15 undocked (nadir Zarya)
- March 18, 2010: Soyuz TMA-16 undocked (zenith Poisk)
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LM-12
Member Posts: 4192
From: Ontario, Canada
Registered: Oct 2010
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posted 09-01-2025 05:21 PM
I too have the Soyuz TMA-14 relocation from Zvezda to Pirs. But wasn't there also a Soyuz TMA-16 relocation? I have Soyuz TMA-16 docking at Zvezda after the Soyuz TMA-14 relocation. |
waa49
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From: Neu-Isenburg, Germany, Hessen
Registered: Sep 2015
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posted 09-02-2025 02:32 AM
Soyuz ТМА-16 docking to Zvezda service module on October 2, 2009. On January 21, 2010 Soyuz ТМА-16 relocation to Module "Poisk" (MRM2).See: ISS Chronology Data Book, 1998-2020 |
LM-12
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From: Ontario, Canada
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posted 09-02-2025 06:39 AM
After checking a lot of dates, I came up with this list of other occasions when there were three Soyuz spacecraft docked at the ISS at the same time: - Soyuz TMA-9M, TMA-10M, TMA-11M in 2013
- Soyuz TMA-16M, TMA-17M, TMA-18M in 2015
- Soyuz MS-12, MS-13, MS-14* in 2019
- Soyuz MS-12, MS-13, MS-15 in 2019
*Soyuz MS-14 was uncrewed. |
LM-12
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Registered: Oct 2010
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posted 09-03-2025 04:56 PM
Here is an illustration showing that Soyuz TMA-18M was the third Soyuz spacecraft at the ISS when it docked there on September 4, 2015. The Soyuz TMA-18M spacecraft is docked to the Poisk mini-research module. The Soyuz TMA-16M spacecraft is docked to the Zvezda service module. The ISS Progress 60 spacecraft is docked to the Pirs docking compartment. The Soyuz TMA-17M spacecraft is docked to the Rassvet mini-research module. Japan’s “Kounotori” HTV-5 is berthed to the Harmony module.  |
LM-12
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From: Ontario, Canada
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posted 09-04-2025 01:00 PM
This is a group photo of the three Soyuz crews after Soyuz TMA-11M docked at the ISS on November 7, 2013. Nine crew members gather for a group portrait in the International Space Station’s Kibo laboratory following a joint crew news conference. This is the first time since October 2009 that nine people have resided on the station without the presence of a space shuttle. Pictured on the front row are Russian cosmonaut Fyodor Yurchikhin (center), Expedition 37 commander; NASA astronaut Karen Nyberg and European Space Agency astronaut Luca Parmitano, both Expedition 37 flight engineers. Pictured on the center row are Russian cosmonaut Oleg Kotov (center), Expedition 38 commander; Russian cosmonaut Sergey Ryazanskiy (left) and NASA astronaut Michael Hopkins, both Expedition 38 flight engineers. Pictured from the left (back row) are NASA astronaut Rick Mastracchio, Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Tyurin and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Koichi Wakata, all Expedition 38 flight engineers. The Expedition 37 crew members will undock from the station in their Soyuz TMA-09M spacecraft on Nov. 10, ending a five-and-a-half month stay.  |
LM-12
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posted 09-04-2025 09:00 PM
There were three Soyuz spacecraft docked when Kotov and Ryazansky did an Expedition 37 EVA on November 9. |
LM-12
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From: Ontario, Canada
Registered: Oct 2010
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posted 09-15-2025 03:32 PM
From a NASA article on the Expedition 37 EVA:
During the spacewalk, Yurchikhin, Parmitano and Nyberg were isolated to their Soyuz TMA-09M spacecraft and Zvezda, while Flight Engineer Mike Hopkins was restricted to the Poisk module and his Soyuz TMA-10M craft. The remaining three crew members — Mastracchio, Wakata and Tyurin – had access to much of the remaining area of the station, including the Zarya module, their Soyuz TMA-11M vehicle and the Rassvet module to which it is docked, as well as the entirety of the U.S. segment of the station.  |
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