page_title: Soyuz TMA-20
section_title: Crew
hierarchical_section_title: Soyuz TMA-20 / Crew
caption_attribution_description: English: In front of St. Basil's Cathedral at Red Square in Moscow Nov. 26, 2010, Expedition 26 prime and backup crew members posed for pictures as part of ceremonial activities leading to the launch of the Expedition 26 crew in the Soyuz TMA-20 spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan Dec. 16 (Kazakhstan time). Pictured are (from the left) JAXA astronaut Satoshi Furukawa, backup flight engineer; RKA cosmonaut Anatoly Ivanishin, backup Soyuz commander; NASA's Mike Fossum, backup flight engineer; NASA's Catherine (Cady) Coleman, Expedition 26 prime flight engineer; RKA cosmonaut Dmitry Kondratyev, prime Soyuz commander; and European Space Agency astronaut Paolo Nespoli, prime flight engineer.
context_page_description: Soyuz TMA-20 was a human spaceflight to the International Space Station and was part of the Soyuz programme. It lifted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on December 15, 2010, and docked with the ISS two days later. The three-person crew of Soyuz TMA-20 – Dmitri Kondratyev, Catherine Coleman and Paolo Nespoli – represented the ISS partner organizations of Roscosmos, NASA and the European Space Agency. Soyuz TMA-20's crew represented half of the members of Expedition 27; the other three members of the expedition arrived at the station on board Soyuz TMA-21 on April 6, 2011. The COSPAR ID of Soyuz TMA-20 was 2010-067A. It is ISS flight 25S.
  On May 24, 2011, after spending 159 days in space, the Soyuz TMA-20 descent module landed safely in Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan, carrying Kondratyev, Coleman and Nespoli.
context_section_description: The Soyuz TMA-20 crew was confirmed by NASA on November 21, 2008.
caption: The Soyuz TMA-20 prime and backup crews conduct their ceremonial tour of Red Square on November 26, 2010.
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