Expedition 58

ISS Expedition 58
Expedition
Space Station International Space Station
Arrived aboard TBD
Departed aboard TBD
Crew
Crew size 5 (planned)
Members Oleg Kononenko
Anne McClain
David Saint-Jacques
Further members TBD

Expedition 58 is the 58th expedition to the International Space Station, which is due to begin in late 2018. The crew was planned to feature five astronauts. Cosmonaut Aleksey Ovchinin and astronaut Nick Hague were planned to transfer from Expedition 57 but their launch on the Soyuz MS-10 spacecraft on October 11th failed during launch with the crew returning safely to Earth.[1] The Soyuz MS-11 spacecraft commanded by cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko was planned to carry him and two flight engineers, Anne McClain and David Saint-Jacques, to the station in December, completing the five-person Expedition 58 crew; Ovchinin and Hague would have returned to Earth on April 15, 2019. Subsequently, the Expedition 59 mission would have begun with Kononenko as commander.[2][3]

As of October 12, 2018, it is not currently known what impact the Soyuz MS-10 failure and subsequent investigation will have on the ISS crew schedule.[1]

Crew

Position First part

(TBA 2019)

 Second part

(TBA 2019 – TBA 2019)

Commander Russia TBD
Flight Engineer 1 United States TBD
Flight Engineer 2   Russia Oleg Kononenko, RSA
Fourth spaceflight
Flight Engineer 3   United States Anne McClain, NASA
First spaceflight
Flight Engineer 4   Canada David Saint-Jacques, CSA
First spaceflight

Cosmonaut Nikolai Tikhonov was slated to make his first spaceflight on the Soyuz MS-10 spacecraft, but was removed from the crew due to delays in launching the Russian Nauka module. This is the second time that Tikhonov has been removed from an ISS crew for such reason.[4][5] Instead, Tikhonov has been reassigned to the Soyuz MS-14 flight in late 2019.

Astronaut David Saint-Jacques will be the first Canadian resident on the space station since Chris Hadfield served as commander of Expedition 35, which terminated on May 13, 2013 almost six years prior.

References

  1. 1 2 Berger, Eric (11 October 2018). "A Soyuz crew makes an emergency landing after rocket fails". Ars Technica. Retrieved 11 October 2018.
  2. ↑ "Upcoming ISS Expeditions". Spacefacts. July 31, 2018. Retrieved August 18, 2018.
  3. ↑ "Future Expeditions". NASA. 2018. Retrieved August 18, 2018.
  4. ↑ Ben Evans (May 30, 2018). "No U.S. Crew Will Command The International Space Station in 2019". AmericaSpace. Retrieved August 18, 2018.
  5. ↑ Ben Evans (October 30, 2016). "As Soyuz MS-01 Lands, International Partners Look Ahead to Reduced Crewing in 2017". AmericaSpace. Retrieved August 18, 2018.
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