Manned Spaceflights - 2006

Last Year Manned Spaceflight Chronology Index

Flight Launch Landing Name Country   Parameters
Soyuz TMA-8
(7K-STMA #218)
March 30, 2006
(02:30 GMT)
September 29, 2006
(01:13 GMT)
Commander: Pavel Vinogradov
(2nd Flight) (NPOE Detachment - Group 10)
Russia M Perigee: 260 km
Apogee: 312 km
Inclination: 51.6°
2,879 orbits
2 spacewalks
ISS Science Officer (Flight Engineer 1): Jeffrey Williams
(2nd Flight) (NASA Group 16)
USA M
Site-1 (Launch Pad 5)
Baikonur Cosmodrome
87 km N of Arkalyk Soyuz Flight Engineer: Marcos Pontes
(1st Flight) (NASA Group 17)
(Down - Soyuz TMA-7) (9 days 21 hours 18 minutes)
Brazil M
Launch Vehicle
Soyuz-FG #018
Docked with ISS
April 1, 2006

(04:19 GMT)
Undocked from ISS
September 28, 2006

(21:53 GMT)
Backup Crew: Fyodor Yurchikhin Russia M Time
182 days
22 hours
42 minutes
Backup Crew: Michael Fincke USA M
Backup Crew: Sergei Volkov Russia M

STS-121 July 4, 2006
(18:38 GMT)
July 17, 2006
(13:14 GMT)
Commander: Commander: Steven Lindsey
(4th Flight) (NASA Group 15)
USA M Perigee: 334 km
Apogee: 348 km
Inclination: 51.6°
202 orbits
3 spacewalks
Pilot: Mark Kelly
(2nd Flight) (NASA Group 16)
USA M
Launch Pad 39B
Kennedy Space Center,
Florida
62nd Landing at
Kennedy Space Center,
Florida (Runway 15)
Mission Specialist 1: Michael Fossum
(1st Flight) (NASA Group 17)
USA M
Mission Specialist 2: Lisa Nowak
(1st Flight) (NASA Group 16)
USA F
Mission Specialist 3: Stephanie Wilson
(1st Flight) (NASA Group 16)
USA F
Space Shuttle
Discovery
(OV-103)
(32nd Mission)
Docked with ISS
July 6, 2006

(14:52 GMT)
Undocked from ISS
July 15, 2006

(10:08 GMT)
Mission Specialist 4: Piers Sellers
(2nd Flight) (NASA Group 16)
USA M Time
12 days
18 hours
36 minutes
ISS 13 Flight Engineer 2: Thomas Reiter
(2nd Flight) (EAC Group - Astrolab Mission)
(Down - STS-116) (171 days 3 hours 54 minutes)
Germany M
Backup ISS Crew 13: Léopold Eyharts France M

STS-115 September 9, 2006
(15:15 GMT)
September 21, 2006
(10:21 GMT)
Commander: Brent Jett
(4th Flight) (NASA Group 14)
USA M Perigee: 407 km
Apogee: 407 km
Inclination: 51.6°
186 orbits
3 spacewalks
Pilot: Christopher Ferguson
(1st Flight) (NASA Group 17)
USA M
Launch Pad 39B
Kennedy Space Center,
Florida
63rd Landing at
Kennedy Space Center,
Florida (Runway 33)
Mission Specialist 1: Joseph Tanner
(4th Flight) (NASA Group 14)
USA M
Mission Specialist 2: Daniel Burbank
(2nd Flight) (NASA Group 16)
USA M
Space Shuttle
Atlantis
(OV-104)
(27th Mission)
Docked with ISS
September 11, 2006

(10:48 GMT)
Undocked from ISS
September 17, 2006

(12:50 GMT)
Mission Specialist 3: Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper
(1st Flight) (NASA Group 16)
USA F Time
11 days
19 hours
6 minutes
Mission Specialist 4: Steve MacLean
(2nd Flight) (CSA Group 1) (NASA Group 16)
Canada M

Soyuz TMA-9
(7K-STMA #219)
September 18, 2006
(04:08 GMT)
April 19, 2007
(Scheduled)
ISS Commander (Science Officer): Michael Lopez-Alegria
(4th Flight) (NASA Group 14)
USA M Perigee: 350 km
Apogee: 350 km
Inclination: 51.6°
5 spacewalks
Site-1 (Launch Pad 5)
Baikonur Cosmodrome
Currently in orbit Flight Engineer 1 (Soyuz Commander): Mikhail Tyurin
(2nd Flight) (NPOE Detachment - Group 11)
Russia M
Docked with ISS
September 20, 2006

(05:21 GMT)
Currently docked to ISS Commercial Cosmonaut: Anousheh Ansari
(1st Flight) (Space Adventures Group 4)
(Down - Soyuz TMA-8) (10 days 21 hours 4 minutes)
USA F
Launch Vehicle
Soyuz-FG
Port Relocation 1
October 10, 2006

(19:13 GMT - 19:34 GMT)
Port Relocation 2
March 29, 2007

(22:30 GMT - 22:54 GMT)
Backup Crew: Peggy Whitson USA F Currently in orbit
Backup Crew: Yuri Malenchenko Russia M
Backup Crew: (Anousheh Ansari) USA F

STS-116 December 10, 2006
(01:47 GMT)
December 22, 2006
(22:32 GMT)
Commander: Mark Polansky
(2nd Flight) (NASA Group 16)
USA M Perigee: 400 km
Apogee: 400 km
Inclination: 51.6°
203 orbits
4 spacewalks
Pilot: William Oefelein
(1st Flight) (NASA Group 17)
USA M
Launch Pad 39B
Kennedy Space Center,
Florida
64th Landing at
Kennedy Space Center,
Florida (Runway 15)
Mission Specialist 1: Nicholas Patrick
(1st Flight) (NASA Group 17)
USA M
Mission Specialist 2: Robert Curbeam
(3rd Flight) (NASA Group 15)
USA M
Mission Specialist 3: Christer Fuglesang
(1st Flight) (EAC Group - Celsius Mission) (NASA Group 16)
Sweden M
Space Shuttle
Discovery
(OV-103)
(33rd Mission)
Docked with ISS
December 11, 2006

(22:12 GMT)
Undocked from ISS
December 19, 2006

(22:10 GMT)
Mission Specialist 4: Joan Higginbotham
(1st Flight) (NASA Group 16)
USA F Time
12 days
20 hours
44 minutes
ISS 14 Flight Engineer 2: Sunita Williams
(1st Flight) (NASA Group 17)
(Down - STS-118) (Currently in orbit)
USA F
Backup ISS Crew 13: Clayton Anderson USA M

Last Year Manned Spaceflight Chronology Index

Updated - March 30, 2007