| Names | ISS 68S |
|---|---|
| Mission type | Crewed mission to ISS |
| Operator | Roscosmos |
| COSPAR ID | 2022-116A |
| SATCAT no. | 53879 |
| Website | en |
| Mission duration | 11 days, 12 hours and 1 minute (188 days planned) |
| Spacecraft properties | |
| Spacecraft | Soyuz MS No.751 Tsiolkovsky |
| Spacecraft type | Soyuz MS |
| Manufacturer | RSC Energia |
| Crew | |
| Crew size | 3 |
| Members | |
| Callsign | Altai |
| Start of mission | |
| Launch date | 21 September 2022, 13:54 UTC [1] |
| Rocket | Soyuz-2.1a |
| Launch site | Baikonur Cosmodrome, Site 31 |
| Contractor | Progress Rocket Space Centre |
| End of mission | |
| Landing date | 28 March 2023 (planned) |
| Landing site | Kazakh Steppe, Kazakhstan |
| Orbital parameters | |
| Reference system | Geocentric orbit |
| Regime | Low Earth orbit |
| Inclination | 51.66° |
| Docking with ISS | |
| Docking port | Rassvet nadir |
| Docking date | 21 September 2022 17:06 UTC |
| Time docked | 11 days, 8 hours and 49 minutes |
(Top-Bottom) Petelin, Rubio and Prokopyev | |
Soyuz MS-22 is a Russian Soyuz spaceflight to the International Space Station with a crew of three launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome on 21 September 2022. The launch was previously planned for 13 September 2022, but in the provisional flight manifest prepared by Roscosmos by the end of Summer 2020, the launch of Soyuz MS-22 was delayed to 21 September 2022, for a mission length of 188 days.[2] The mission was planned before the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, however, continued international collaboration around the ISS has been thrown into doubt by the ongoing event and related sanctions on Russia.[3]
The original three-Russian member crew was named in May 2021. American astronaut Francisco Rubio replaced Anna Kikina as a part of the Soyuz-Dragon crew swap system of keeping at least one NASA astronaut and one Roscosmos cosmonaut on each of the crew rotation missions. This ensures both countries have a presence on the station, and the ability to maintain their separate systems if either Soyuz or commercial crew vehicles are grounded for an extended period.[4]
| Position | Crew member | |
|---|---|---|
| Commander |  Sergey Prokopyev, RoscosmosExpedition 67/68 Second spaceflight | |
| Flight Engineer 1 | Dmitry Petelin, Roscosmos Expedition 67/68 First spaceflight | |
| Flight Engineer 2 |  Francisco Rubio, NASAExpedition 67/68 First spaceflight | |
| Position | Crew member | |
|---|---|---|
| Commander | Oleg Kononenko, Roscosmos
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| Flight Engineer 1 | Nikolai Chub, Roscosmos
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| Flight Engineer 2 | Loral O'Hara, NASA
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The Soyuz capsule is named in honor of Konstantin Tsiolkovsky (1857-1935), the Russian schoolmaster today revered alongside such luminaries as Robert Goddard and Hermann Oberth as one of the fathers of modern rocketry and astronautics. The 165th anniversary of Tsiolkovsky’s birth incidentally falls on 17 September, only a few days before Soyuz MS-22 launches.[5]
