| Soyuz MS-13 | |
| Mission Type: | ISS crew transport |
| Operator: | Roscosmos |
| Cospar Id: | 2019-041A |
| Satcat: | 44437 |
| Orbits Completed: | 3,216 |
| Spacecraft: | Soyuz-MS |
| Spacecraft Type: | Soyuz-MS 11F747 No. 746 |
| Manufacturer: | Energia |
| Launch Mass: | NaN |
| Landing Mass: | NaN |
| Launch Date: | 20 July 2019, 16:28:21 UTC[1] |
| Launch Rocket: | Soyuz-FG |
| Launch Site: | Baikonur, Site 1/5 |
| Launch Contractor: | RKTs Progress |
| Landing Date: | 6 February 2020, 09:12:45 UTC[2] |
| Landing Site: | Steppes of Kazakhstan. |
| Crew Size: | 3 |
| Crew Members: | Aleksandr Skvortsov Luca Parmitano |
| Crew Launching: | Andrew R. Morgan |
| Crew Landing: | Christina Koch |
| Crew Callsign: | Cliff |
| Crew Photo: | Soyuz MS-11 backup crew in front of the Soyuz spacecraft mockup.jpg |
| Crew Photo Caption: | (l-r) Morgan, Skvortsov and Parmitano |
| Orbit Reference: | Geocentric |
| Orbit Regime: | Low Earth |
| Orbit Inclination: | 51.6° |
| Apsis: | gee |
| Docking: | |
| Previous Mission: | Soyuz MS-12 |
| Next Mission: | Soyuz MS-15 |
| Programme: | Soyuz programme (crewed) |
Soyuz MS-13, also designated ISS flight 59S, was a crewed Soyuz mission launched on 20 July 2019 – the 50th anniversary of the first Moon landing – [1] carrying three members of the Expedition 60 crew to the International Space Station: a Russian commander, an American flight engineer, and a European flight engineer. Soyuz MS-13 was the 142nd flight of a Soyuz spacecraft. It was at one point the last Soyuz flight contracted by NASA in the expectation that subsequent astronaut transport would be provided by the Commercial Crew Program,[4] but in early 2019, NASA sought to purchase two additional Soyuz seats to provide greater certainty given delays in that program.[5]
The Soyuz crew relocated the MS-13 spacecraft from the aft port of the Zvezda module and performed a manual docking on the Poisk module on 26 August 2019.[3] This cleared the way for Soyuz MS-14 to perform an automatic docking on Zvezda, after a faulty signal amplifier on Poisk caused MS-14's first docking attempt to abort on 24 August 2019.[7] The last time a Soyuz spacecraft was relocated was in August 2015 during the Soyuz TMA-16M mission.[8]