International Space Station
Flight Details 2
ISS Expedition 11
(Soyuz TMA-6)
Mission Statistics:
- Date: 04/14/05
- Flight Time:
0179d 00h 23m
- Number of Orbits: 2864
orbits
Astronaut Crew:
- Sergei Krikalev (Russia) ISS #11 CMDR
- John Phillips (United States) ISS #11 ENGR
EVA's:
Payloads:
Mission Highlights:
The ISS-11 crew, along with European astronaut Roberto Vittori, were launched to the
space station aboard a Soyuz spacecraft on April 14, 2005. Astronaut Vittori returned to Earth with the
ISS-10 crew after spending 10 days in space. On August 16, 2005, station commander Krikalev's total time in
space surpassed the prior record of 747 days, 14 hours, 14 minutes, set by cosmonaut Sergei Avdeyev. Two days
later, Krikalev and station engineer Phillips performed a 5-hour space walk from the Pirs module to remove
experiment packages from the exterior of the Pirs and Zvesda modules and install a camera to be used during
future unmanned flights of the European Automated Transfer Vehicle. On October 10, 2005
Krikalev and Phillips returned to Earth with American scientist Gregory Olsen (a paying space traveler), who launched
aboard Soyuz TMA-7 with the ISS-12 crew 10 days earlier.
ISS Expedition 12
(Soyuz TMA-7)
Mission Statistics:
- Date: 09/30/05
- Flight Time:
0189d 18h 51m
- Number of Orbits: 3036
orbits
Astronaut Crew:
- William McArthur (United States) ISS #12 CMDR
- Valery Tokarev (Russia) ISS #12 ENGR
EVA's:
- 05h 22m spacewalk
- 05h 43m spacewalk
Payloads:
Mission Highlights:
The ISS-12 crew, along with American scientist Gregory Olsen (a paying customer of the Russian Space Agency)
were launched to the space station aboard a Soyuz spacecraft on September 30, 2005. Astronaut Olsen returned
to Earth with the ISS-11 crew after spending 10 days in space. On November 7, 2005, the ISS-11 crew performed
a 5 1/2-hour space walk from the Quest airlock to attach a camera to be used during future station assembly missions,
remove an old experiment from the highest point of the station, and repair a couple of electrical components. All
assigned tasks were completedly easily within the space walk schedule. During a second spacewalk on February 3, 2006,
the ISS-11 crew released an old Russian spacesuit equipped with a radio transmitter to orbit the Earth
and transmit a pre-recorded message that will be picked up by amateur radio operators. After completing that task,
astronaut McArthur and cosmonaut Tokarev conduced preventive maintenance on a cable-cutter, retrieved experiments,
and photographed the station's exterior. On April 8, 2006, McArthur and Tokarev returned to Earth with Brazilian
astronaut Marcos Pontes, who launched aboard Soyuz TMA-8 with the ISS-13 crew 10 days earlier.
ISS Expedition 13
(Soyuz TMA-8/STS-121)
Mission Statistics:
- Date: 03/29/2006
- Flight Time:
0183d __h __m
- Number of Orbits: 2928
orbits
Astronaut Crew:
- Pavel Vinogradov (Russia) ISS #13 CMDR
- Jeffrey Williams (United States) ISS #13 ENGR
- Thomas Reiter (ESA/Germany) ISS #13 & 14 CREWS (Up STS-121 - 172d)
EVA's:
- 06h 31m spacewalk
- 05h 54m spacewalk
Payloads:
Mission Highlights:
The ISS-13 crew, along with Brazilian astronaut Marcos Pontes, were launched to the space station aboard a Soyuz
spacecraft on March 29, 2006. Astronaut Pontes returned to Earth with the ISS-12 crew after spending 10 days in space.
On June 1, 2006, cosmonaut Vinogradov and astronaut Williams completed a 6 1/2-hour spacewalk from the Russian Pirs
module to install replacement parts for the oxygen-generation unit aboard Zvezda, examine and photograph several
antennas to be used during future flights of the European Automated Transfer Vehicle, retrieve experiment packages
from the station's exterior, and replace a video camera on the station's truss. European astronaut Thomas Reiter joined
the ISS 13 crew in July 2006, when he was launched aboard the space shuttle Discovery during the STS-121 mission. On August 3, 2006,
astronauts Williams and Reiter performed a 6-hour spacewalk to install various experiment packages and other equipment to the
exterior of the space station, including an infra-red camera for imaging future space shuttles for damage as they approach
the space station. On September 28, 2006, Vinogradov and Williams returned to Earth with American business woman Anousheh Ansari,
who launched aboard Soyuz TMA-9 with the ISS-14 crew 11 days earlier. Astronaut Reiter remained aboard the space station as a
member of the ISS-14 crew.
ISS Expedition 14
(Soyuz TMA-8/STS-116)
Mission Statistics:
- Date: 09/17/2006
- Flight Time:
0217d __h __m
- Number of Orbits: 3472
orbits
Astronaut Crew:
- Michael Lopez-Alegria (United States) ISS #14 CMDR
- Mikhail Tyurin (Russia) ISS #14 ENGR
- Thomas Reiter (ESA/Germany) ISS #13 & 14 CREW (Down STS-116 - 172d)
- Sunita Williams (United States) ISS #14 & 15 CREW (Up STS-116 - 195d)
EVA's:
- 05h 38m spacewalk
- 07h 55m spacewalk
- 07h 11m spacewalk
- 06h 40m spacewalk
- 06h 18m spacewalk
Payloads:
Mission Highlights:
The ISS-14 crew, along with American business woman Anousheh Ansari, were launched to the space station aboard a Soyuz
spacecraft on September 17, 2006. Ms. Ansari returned to Earth with the ISS-13 crew after spending 11 days in space.
On November 23, 2006, astronaut Lopez-Alegria and cosmonaut Tyurin conducted a more than 5-hour spacewalk from the Russian
Pirs airlock to try make repairs to a stuck antenna on a Progress supply ship that had docked with the space station a
few days earlier. The spacewalkers also repositioned several communications antennas to be used in the future by the
European Automated Transfer Vehicle and installed an experiment to measure the volume of neutron particles emitted by
solar flares. Also, for a commercial venture between the Russian Space Agency and a Canadian company, cosmonaut Tyurin
hit a light-weight golf ball off the back end of the space station. It was expected to re-enter the atmosphere within
3 or 4 days and not pose a future debris hazard. American astronaut Sunita Williams joined the ISS 14 crew in December
2006, when she was launched aboard the space shuttle Discovery during the STS-116 mission. European astronaut Thomas Reiter
returned to Earth with the STS-116 mission after spending a total of 172 days aboard the Space Station. Beginning on January
31, 2007, the ISS astronauts conducted four spacewalks to upgrade space station systems. Astronauts Lopez-Alegria and
Williams conducted spacewalks from the U.S. Quest airlock on January 31 (almost 8 hours), February 4 (over 7 hours), and
February 8 (almost 6 hours) to bring on-line new portions of the station's cooling system and
prepare the station for future space shuttle missions. Then, on February 22, astronaut Lopez-Alegria and Russian cosmonaut
Tyurin conducted a 6-hour spacewalk from the Russian Pirs airlock to remove a stuck antenna from the Progress 23 cargo
craft that was attached to the space station. This will allow Progress to be safely undocked in April for return to Earth.
On April 21, 2007, Lopez-Alegria and Tyurin returned to Earth with American businessman Charles Simonyi, who launched aboard
Soyuz TMA-10 with the ISS-15 crew 14 days earlier. Astronaut Sunita Williams remained aboard the space station as a
member of the ISS-15 crew.
ISS Expedition 15
(Soyuz TMA-10/STS-117)
Mission Statistics:
- Date: 04/07/2007
- Flight Time:
0198d __h __m
- Number of Orbits: 3168
orbits
Astronaut Crew:
- Fyodor Yurchikhin (Russia) ISS #15 CMDR
- Oleg Kotov (Russia) ISS #15 ENGR
- Sunita Williams (United States) ISS #14 & 15 CREW (Down STS-117 - 195d)
- Clayton Anderson (United States) ISS #15 CREW (Up STS-117 - 152d)
EVA's:
- 05h 25m spacewalk
- 05h 37m spacewalk
- 07h 41m spacewalk
Payloads:
Mission Highlights:
The ISS-15 crew, along with American businessman Charles Simonyi, were launched to the space station aboard a Soyuz
spacecraft on April 7, 2007. Mr. Simonyi will return to Earth with two members of the ISS-14 crew after spending 11 days in space.
Astronaut Sunita Williams, who arrived at the space station on space shuttle Discovery's STS-116 mission will remain
on-board the space station and transition from being a member of the ISS 14 crew to the ISS 15 crew. She is scheduled
to return to Earth on space shuttle Endeavour during the summer of 2007. Cosmonauts Yurchikhin and Kotov performed a
5 1/2-hour spacewalk on May 30, 2007 to install debris protection panels on the Zvezda module and rerouted a cable for
a Global Positioning System component that will be used in the future by the European Automated Transfer Vehicle. Another
5 1/2-hour spacewalk to complete installation of the debris protection panels, install a computer network cable to the
Zarya module, and attach an experiment package to the Pirs Docking module was completed by the two cosmonauts on June 6, 2007.
American astronaut Clayton Anderson joined the ISS 15 crew in June 2007, when he was launched aboard the space shuttle
Atlantis during the STS-117 mission. Astronaut Sunita Williams returned to Earth with the STS-117 mission after spending
a total of almost 195 days aboard the Space Station, setting a new spaceflight record for female astronauts. On
July 23, 2007, astronaut Anderson and cosmonaut Yurchikhin performed an almost 8-hour spacewalk to discard some equipment
on the outside of the space station, including a 1,400-pound refrigerator-sized tank, that was no longer needed. They
also replaced a faulty power module for the station's mobile transporter railcar and prepared the station for the
arrival of the Harmony module (scheduled for October 2007). Cosmonauts Yurchikhin and Kotov returned to Earth aboard their
Soyuz TM-10 spacecraft on October 21, 2007, after having spent 198 days in space. Astronaut Anderson returned to Earth a couple
weeks later aboard the space shuttle Discovery with the STS-120 crew.
ISS Expedition 16
(Soyuz TMA-11/STS-120/STS-122/STS-123)
Mission Statistics:
- Date: 10/10/2007
- Flight Time: 0192d __h __m
- Number of Orbits: 3072 orbits
Astronaut Crew:
- Peggy Whitson (United States) ISS #16 CMDR
- Yuri Malenchenko (Russia) ISS #16 ENGR
- Clayton Anderson (United States) ISS #15 CREW (Down STS-120 - 152d)
- Daniel Tani (United States) ISS #16 CREW (Up STS-120 / Down STS-122 - 120d)
- Leopold Eyharts (France) ISS #16 CREW (Up STS-122 / Down STS-123 - 48d)
- Garrett Reisman (United States) ISS #16 & 17 CREW (Up STS-123)
EVA's:
- 06h 55m spacewalk
- 07h 16m spacewalk
- 07h 04m spacewalk
- 06h 56m spacewalk
- 07h 10m spacewalk
Payloads:
Mission Highlights:
The ISS-16 crew, along with Malaysian doctor Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor, were launched to the space station aboard a Soyuz
spacecraft on October 10, 2007. Sheikh Muszaphar returned to Earth with two members of the ISS-15 crew after spending
11 days in space. Astronaut Clayton Anderson, who arrived at the space station in July 2007 aboard the STS-117 mission,
returned to Earth on November 7, 2007 with the STS-120 crew, after spending 152 days in space. In October 2007, STS-120
brought Astronaut Daniel Tani to the station to become a full-time member of the ISS-16 crew. ISS-16 commander, Peggy Whitson
became the first woman to serve as commander of the space station. On November 9, 2007, Astronaut Whitson and Cosmonaut Malenchenko
performed a 7-hour spacewalk, and Whitson and Astronaut Tani performed two more 7-hour spacewalks on November 20 and 24 to complete
the installation of the Harmony module to the International Space Station. The first of the three spacewalks was to have been
performed during the STS-120 shuttle mission, but was postponed when the shuttle astronauts had to devote time to repairing a
torn solar array. With Harmony now in its permanent location and wired for electricity, the station was readied for the arrival,
in December, of the European Space Agency's Columbus laboratory module. During the third spacewalk, the astronauts also inspected
a balky solar array joint, routed power cables, and installed a floodlight on the outside of the space station. Astronauts
Whitson and Tani performed a fourth spacewalk on December 18, 2007 to inspect the starboard solar array that has been
found to have metal filings in the rotation joints. This spacewalk set a milestone as the 100th spacewalk associated with
construction of the International Space Station. On January 30, 2008, Whitson and Tani performed yet another 7-hour spacewalk,
this time to replace a defective motor that prevented the starboard solar array from turning to track the sun. The repair went
successfully, as a new motor was installed. The defective one will be returned to Earth for inspection during a future space
shuttle mission. During this spacewalk, Whitson and Tani also inspected the joint on the same solar array that has shown
signs of metallic debris since the last shuttle astronauts first noticed the metal shavings. The exact cause is still under review.
With the February 10, 2008 launch of STS-122, the space shuttle Atlantis completed the change-over of ISS-16 crewmember Daniel Tani (down
after the Atlantis mission, with 120 days in space) with European Space Agency astronaut Leopold Eyharts. Eyharts was replaced by
astronaut Garrett Reisman in March 2008 during the STS-123 flight of the space shuttle Endeavour. Eyharts was in space a total of 48 days.
Astronaut Whitson and cosmonaut Malenchenko returned to Earth aboard their Soyuz TM-11 spacecraft on April 19, 2008,
after having spent 192 days in space.
ISS Expedition 17
(Soyuz TMA-12/STS-124)
Mission Statistics:
- Date: 04/08/2008
- Flight Time:
0199d __h __m
- Number of Orbits: 3184
orbits
Astronaut Crew:
- Sergei Volkov (Russia) ISS #17 CMDR
- Oleg Kononenko (Russia) ISS #17 ENGR
- Garrett Reisman (United States) ISS #16 CREW (Up STS-123 / Down STS-124 - 95d)
- Greg Chamitoff (United States) ISS #17 CREW (Up STS-124)
EVA's:
- 06h 16m spacewalk
- 05h 54m spacewalk
Payloads:
Mission Highlights:
The ISS-17 crew, along with South Korean bio-engineer Yi So-yeon, were launched to the space station aboard a Soyuz
spacecraft on April 8, 2008. So-yeon was the first South Korean in space, and she returned to Earth with two members of the
ISS-16 crew after spending 11 days in space. Astronaut Garrett Reisman, who arrived at the space station in March 2008
aboard the STS-123 mission, remained aboard the station as part of the ISS-17 crew. A few days before the arrival of the ISS-17
crew, the European Automated Transfer Vehicle (named Jules Verne) docked with the International Space Station for the first time.
The unmanned Jules Verne was used, along with the Russian Progress craft, to carry supplies and equipment to and from the
space station. With the May 31, 2008 launch of STS-124, the space shuttle Discovery accomplished the change-over of ISS-16 crewmember
Garrett Reisman (down after 95 days in space) with astronaut Greg Chamitoff. Cosmonauts Volkov and Kononenko performed
two spacewalks in July 2008. During the first EVA on July 10, they prepared their Soyuz TMA-12 spacecraft for its October re-entry
by removing an explosive bolt suspected in Soyuz re-entry mishaps (which luckily did not result in crew injuries). During the second EVA
on July 15, they installed a new docking target to the exterior of the Zvezda module. The docking target will be used by two Russian Mini
Research Modules (MRM), which are to be launched to the space station in late-summer 2009 by Soyuz rockets. Cosmonauts Volkov and Kononenko
returned to Earth, along with Soyuz TMA-13's space tourist, Richard Garriott, on October 23, after having spent 199 days in space.
ISS Expedition 18
(Soyuz TMA-13/STS-126)
Mission Statistics:
- Date: 10/12/2008
- Flight Time: 0178d __h __m
- Number of Orbits: 2848 orbits
Astronaut Crew:
- Michael Fincke (United States) ISS #18 CMDR
- Yury Lonchakov (Russia) ISS #18 ENGR
- Greg Chamitoff (United States) ISS #18 CREW (Up STS-124 / Down STS-126 - 183d)
- Sandra Magnus (United States) ISS #18 CREW (Up STS-126 / Down STS-119 - 134d)
EVA's:
- 05h 38m spacewalk
- 04h 49m spacewalk
Payloads:
Mission Highlights:
On October 12, 2008, Astronaut Fincke and Cosmonaut Konchakov rode the Soyuz TMA-13 spacecraft to the International Space Station along with
Richard Garriott, son of Skylab astronaut Owen Garriott and a paying passenger and visitor to the space station. After spending 12 days in
space, Garriott returned to Earth on October 23, 2008 with the ISS-17 crewmembers Volkov and Kononenko. Astronauts Fincke and Konchakov joined
Greg Chamitoff, of the ISS-17 crew, who now became an ISS-18 crewmember. Chamitoff was replaced as part of the ISS-18 crew by astonaut
Magnus on the STS-126 mission, which launched on November 14, 2008. In addition to performing one spacewalk, the ISS-18 crew were tasked with
conducting nearly 100 physical, biological, and educational experiments for NASA, Russia, Europe, and Japan. The one spacewalk of the mission
came on December 23, 2008, during which mission commander Fincke and flight engineer Lonchakov installed a probe near the Pirs airlock module to
measure the surrounding plasma and electromagnetic environment. Russian scientists believe that electromagnetic interference caused the malfunction
in separation bolts on the nearby-docked Soyuz spacecrafts that resulted in abnormal re-entries of Soyuz return flights in October 2007 and April 2008.
The spacewalking astronauts also retrieved an experiment from the outside of the Zvesda module and attached a new experiment package. A European
experiment that was to be installed, however, malfunctioned and could not be activated. In a followup spacewalk on March 10, 2009, Fincke and Lonchakov
successfully installed the European EXPOSE-R experiment that had malfunction during their December 2008 spacewalk, and also installed a Russian
materials exposure experiment and took photographs in a survey of the exterior of the Russian space station modules. They also cut several straps
near the docking port to ensure that they would not interfere with future dockings of Soyuz and Progress craft. Astronaut Magnus returned to Earth
with the STS-119 Discovery crew on March 28, after having spent 134 days in space. Astronaut Fincke and Cosmonauts Lonchakov
returned to Earth, along with Soyuz TMA-14's space tourist, Charles Simonyi, on April 8, 2009, after having spent 178 days in space.
ISS Expedition 19/20
(Soyuz TMA-14/STS-119)
Mission Statistics:
- Date: 03/26/09
- Flight Time: 0199d __h __m
- Number of Orbits: 3184 orbits
Astronaut Crew:
- Gennady Padalka (Russia) ISS #19/20 CMDR
- Michael Barratt (United States) ISS #19/20 ENGR
- Koichi Wakata (Japan) ISS #19/20 CREW (Up STS-119 / Down STS-127 - 138d)
EVA's:
- 04h 54m spacewalk
- 00h 12m internal spacewalk
Payloads:
Mission Highlights:
The ISS-19 crew launched to the space station aboard Soyuz TMA-14 on March 26, 2009. They were joined at launch by Charles Simonyi, a paying
customer of the Russian Space Agency. The two ISS 19 crewmembers met up with fellow ISS-19 crewmate Koichi Wakata of Japan,
who was launched to the space station aboard the STS-119 flight of space shuttle Discovery on March 15, 2009. Three additional space station
crew members arrived on the station aboard Soyuz TMA-15 on May 27, 2009 (see below), and the six astronauts officially became members of ISS
Expedition 20 crew. This was the first time that the space station had an assigned crew of six astronauts. On
June 5, astronauts Padalka and Barratt energed from the Russian Pirs module for a 5-hour spacewalk to install navigational equipment for the new
Mini-Research Module 2, which is scheduled to arrive at the station in November 2009 to provide an additional docking port for the station. On June 10,
astronauts Padalka and Barratt again donned their spacesuits for a 12 minuted "internal" spacewalk to replace the roof-mounted hatch cover in the forward
compartment of the Zvesda module with a docking cone to allow the Mini-Research Module 2 to dock there in November. Japanese astronaut Wakata returned
to Earth after 138 days in space on July 31 aboard the STS-127 flight of space shuttle Endeavour. Gennady Padalka and Mike Barratt returned
to Earth, with paying passenger Guy Laliberte (of Soyuz TMA-16), on October 11 after spending a total of 199 days in space.
ISS Expedition 20/21
(Soyuz TMA-15/STS-127/STS-128)
Mission Statistics:
- Date: 05/27/09
- Flight Time: 0187d 20h 42m
- Number of Orbits: 2961 orbits
Astronaut Crew:
- Roman Romanenko (Russia) ISS #20/21 CREW
- Robert Thirsk (Canada) ISS #20/21 CREW
- Frank DeWinne (Belgium/ESA) ISS #20/21 CREW
- Tim Kopra (United States) ISS #20 CREW (Up STS-127 / Down STS-128 - 58d)
- Nicole Stott (United States) ISS #20/21 CREW (Up STS-128 / Down STS-129 - 90d)
EVA's:
Payloads:
Mission Highlights:
The ISS-19 crew that was launched to the space station aboard Soyuz TMA-14 on March 26, 2009 (see above) became half of the ISS-20 crew, when three
additional astronauts were launched aboard Soyuz TMA-15 on May 27, 2009. This doubled the assigned crew of the space station to a total of six astronauts
for the very first time in the station's 10-year life. Russian astronaut Roman Romanenko is the son of veteran Russian cosmonaut Yuri Romanenko. Launched
on July 15, 2009 aboard the space shuttle Endeavour, astronaut Tim Kopra replaced Japanese astronaut Koichi Wakata, who had been aboard the space station
since March 2009 as part of the ISS 19 and 20 crews. Wakata returned to Earth when Endeavour landed on July 31, 2009. NASA astronaut Nicole Stott
replaced Tim Kopra on the ISS 20 crew, when she launched to the Space Station aboard Discovery's STS-128 mission on August 28, 2009. Kopra returned to
Earth aboard Discovery (STS-128) on September 11th after spending 58 days in space. Astronaut Stott returned to Earth aboard Atlantis (STS-129) on November 27th
after spending 90 days in space. The last three member of the Expedition 20 crew -- Romanenko, Thirsk, and DeWinne -- landed aboard Soyuz TMA-15 on
December 1st, after spending alsmost 188 days in space.
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