Expedition 33

ISS Expedition 33
Mission type ISS Expedition
Expedition
Space Station International Space Station
Began 16 September 2012, 23:09 (2012-09-16UTC23:09Z) UTC[1]
Ended 18 November 2012 (2012-11-19)[1]
Arrived aboard Soyuz TMA-05M
Soyuz TMA-06M
Departed aboard Soyuz TMA-05M
Soyuz TMA-06M
Crew
Crew size 6
Members Expedition 32/33:
Sunita Williams
Yuri Malenchenko
Akihiko Hoshide

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


(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 2012 to October 2012)		 Second Part
(October 2012 to November 2012)
Commander Sunita Williams, NASA
Second spaceflight
Flight Engineer 1 Yuri Malenchenko, RSA
Fifth spaceflight
Flight Engineer 2 Akihiko Hoshide, JAXA
Second spaceflight
Flight Engineer 3 Kevin A. Ford, NASA
Second spaceflight
Flight Engineer 4 Oleg Novitskiy, RSA
First spaceflight
Flight Engineer 5 Evgeny Tarelkin, RSA
First 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 2 3 "Expedition 33". National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Retrieved 16 September 2012.
  2. ↑ NASA HQ (2010). "NASA And Partners Assign Crews For Upcoming Space Station Missions". NASA. Retrieved 8 July 2010.
  3. ↑ "Astronaut Bio: Sunita Williams". NASA. Retrieved 2011-02-19.
  4. ↑ "Selection of Astronaut Akihiko Hoshide as a Member of the ISS Expedition Crew". JAXA. Retrieved 2011-02-19.
  5. ↑ http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2012/nov/HQ_12-391_DTN.html

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