Soyuz TMA-21
(Yuri Gagarin*)

Crew:
    Aleksandr Samokutyayev [1], Commander
    Andrei Borisenko [1], Flight Engineer
    Robert Garan [2], Flight Engineer (USA)

Backup Crew:
    Anton Shkaplerov
     (for Samokutyayev)
    Anotoli Ivanishin
     (for Borisenko)
    Daniel Burbank (USA)
     (for Garan)

Launch:
    Location: Baikonur, Site 1/5
    Rocket: Soyuz-FG
    Date: 4 April 2011
    Time: 22:18:20 UTC

Landing:
    Date: 16 September 2011
    Time: 03:59:44 UTC
    Location: 47° 19.2' N, 69° 30.1' E

Flight Duration:
    164 days, 5 hours, 41 minutes, 24 seconds

Docking:
    Poisk , 6 April 2011 23:09 UTC - 16 September 2011 00:38 UTC

Docking Duration:
    162 days, 1 hours, 29 minutes

Call Sign: Tarkhany

* This flight has been named "Yuri Gagarin" in honor of Yuri Gagarin who made the first manned flight into space 50 years ago on 12 April 1961.

Garan, Samokutyayev, Borisenko

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