Astronomy:Expedition 22
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Mission type | ISS Expedition |
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Mission duration | 167 days (at ISS) 169 days (launch to landing) |
Expedition | |
Space Station | International Space Station |
Began | 1 December 2009 |
Ended | 18 March 2010 |
Arrived aboard | Soyuz TMA-16 Soyuz TMA-17 |
Departed aboard | Soyuz TMA-16 Soyuz TMA-17 |
Crew | |
Crew size | 5 |
Members | Expedition 21/22: Jeffrey N. Williams Maksim Surayev Expedition 22/23: Oleg Kotov Soichi Noguchi Timothy Creamer |
EVAs | 1 |
EVA duration | 5 hours, 44 minutes |
![]() Expedition 22 mission patch ![]() (l-r) Creamer, Williams, Surayev, Kotov and Noguchi |
Expedition 22 was the twenty-second long duration crew flight to the International Space Station (ISS). This expedition began on 1 December 2009 when the Expedition 21 crew departed. For a period of three weeks, there were only two crew members; it was the first time that had occurred since STS-114. Commander Jeff Williams and flight engineer Maksim Surayev were joined by the rest of their crew on 22 December 2009, making the Expedition 22 a crew of five.[1]
The expedition had ended when Soyuz TMA-16 undocked on 18 March 2010, and was immediately followed by the start of Expedition 23.
Crew
Position | First Part (1 – 22 December 2009) |
Second Part (22 December 2009 – 18 March 2010) | |
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Commander | ![]() Third spaceflight | ||
Flight Engineer 1 | ![]() First spaceflight | ||
Flight Engineer 2 | ![]() Second spaceflight | ||
Flight Engineer 3 | ![]() Second spaceflight | ||
Flight Engineer 4 | ![]() Only spaceflight |
Backup crew
- Shannon Walker – Commander
- Aleksandr Skvortsov
- Douglas H. Wheelock
- Anton Shkaplerov
- Satoshi Furukawa
Spacewalks
Gallery
The Soyuz TMA-17 spacecraft is rolled out by train to the launch pad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan.
The Soyuz TMA-17 rocket lifts off headed for the ISS on Expedition 22.
Kotov used a digital still camera to take this self-portrait during a January 2010 space-walk.
See also
- 2010 in spaceflight
- List of human spaceflights
- List of International Space Station spacewalks
- List of spacewalks 2000–2014
References
This article incorporates public domain material from websites or documents of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
- ↑ "NASA – Expedition 22 Crew Launches From Kazakhstan". Nasa.gov. 21 December 2009. http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/expeditions/expedition22/exp22_launch.html.
- ↑ NASA HQ (2008). "NASA Assigns Space Station Crews, Updates Expedition Numbering". NASA. http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2008/nov/HQ_08-306_Expedition_crews.html.
- ↑ NASA. "STS-131 Mission Summary (PDF)". NASA. http://www.nasa.gov/pdf/435319main_STS131%20mission%20summary.pdf.
- ↑ NASA. "STS-131 Mission Information". http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/shuttlemissions/sts131/index.html.
- ↑ "Crew Completes First Expedition 22 Spacewalk". NASA. 15 January 2010. http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/main/index.html.
External links
![]() | Original source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expedition 22.
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