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Soyuz-TMA

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Soyuz TMA-19M launch

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Soyuz TMA-19M landing

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Soyuz TMA-15M landing – welcoming ceremony

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A guide to Tim Peake’s Spacecraft: Soyuz TMA-19M

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Soyuz TMA-13M rollout and launch (time-lapse)

The Soyuz-TMA is a revision of the Soyuz spacecraft, superseded in 2010 by the Soyuz TMA-M. (T – транспортный – Transportnyi – meaning transport, M – модифицированный – Modifitsirovannyi – meaning modified, A – антропометрический, – Antropometricheskii meaning anthropometric). It is used by the Russian Federal Space Agency for human spaceflight. The spacecraft features several changes to accommodate requirements requested by NASA in order to service the International Space Station, including more latitude in the height and weight of the crew and improved parachute systems. It is also the first expendable vehicle to feature a "glass cockpit". Soyuz-TMA looks identical to the earlier Soyuz-TM spacecraft on the outside, but interior differences allow it to accommodate taller occupants with new adjustable crew couches.
  • Design 

  • Reentry Module (SA) 

  • Service Module (PAO) 

  • Spacecraft systems 

  • Soyuz TMA-M