Astronomy:Expedition 33

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Short description: Long-duration mission to the International Space Station
ISS Expedition 33
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Mission typeISS Expedition
Expedition
Space StationInternational Space Station
Began16 September 2012, 23:09 (2012-09-16UTC23:09Z) UTC[1]
Ended18 November 2012 (2012-11-19)[1]
Arrived aboardSoyuz TMA-05M
Soyuz TMA-06M
Departed aboardSoyuz TMA-05M
Soyuz TMA-06M
Crew
Crew size6
MembersExpedition 32/33:
Sunita Williams
Yuri Malenchenko
Akihiko Hoshide

Expedition 33/34:
Kevin A. Ford
Oleg Novitskiy
Evgeny Tarelkin

Expedition 33 mission patch

(l-r) Williams, Malenchenko, Hoshide, Tarelkin, Novitskiy and Ford 

Expedition 33 was the 33rd long-duration expedition to the International Space Station (ISS). It began on 16 September 2012 with the departure from the ISS of the Soyuz TMA-04M spacecraft, which returned the Expedition 32 crew to Earth.[1]

Crew

Position First Part
(September-October 2012) 		Second Part
(October-November 2012)
Commander United States Sunita Williams, NASA
Second spaceflight
Flight Engineer 1 Russia Yuri Malenchenko, RSA
Fifth spaceflight
Flight Engineer 2 Japan Akihiko Hoshide, JAXA
Second spaceflight
Flight Engineer 3 United States Kevin A. Ford, NASA
Second and last spaceflight
Flight Engineer 4 Russia Oleg Novitskiy, RSA
First spaceflight
Flight Engineer 5 Russia Evgeny Tarelkin, RSA
Only spaceflight
Source
NASA[2][3][4]
CubeSats launched by Expedition 33 crew on 4 October 2012.

Notable experiments

The crew successfully experimented with the Delay-tolerant networking protocol and managed to control a Lego robot on earth from space.[5]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Expedition 33". National Aeronautics and Space Administration. http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/expeditions/expedition33/index.html. 
  2. ↑ NASA HQ (2010). "NASA And Partners Assign Crews For Upcoming Space Station Missions". NASA. http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2010/jul/HQ_10-161_New_ISS_Crews.html. 
  3. ↑ "Astronaut Bio: Sunita Williams". NASA. http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/williams-s.html. 
  4. ↑ "Selection of Astronaut Akihiko Hoshide as a Member of the ISS Expedition Crew". JAXA. http://www.jaxa.jp/press/2009/11/20091118_iss_e.html. 
  5. ↑ "NASA, ESA Use Experimental Interplanetary Internet to Test Robot from International Space Station". 7 April 2015. http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2012/nov/HQ_12-391_DTN.html. 




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