Expedition 66
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Mission type | Long-duration mission to the ISS |
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Operator | NASA / Roscosmos |
Mission duration | 164 days, 6 hours and 7 minutes |
Expedition | |
Space station | International Space Station |
Began | 17 October 2021, 01:14 UTC[1] |
Ended | 30 March 2022, 07:21:03[1] |
Arrived aboard | SpaceX Crew-2 Soyuz MS-19 SpaceX Crew-3 Soyuz MS-21 |
Departed aboard | SpaceX Crew-2 Soyuz MS-19 |
Crew | |
Crew size | 7-10 |
Members |
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EVAs | 4 |
EVA duration | 25 hours 31 minutes |
![]() Expedition 66 mission patch, resembling that of U.S. Route 66 ![]() Expedition 66 crew portrait |
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/29/The_Soyuz_MS-20_and_Expedition_66_crews.jpg/300px-The_Soyuz_MS-20_and_Expedition_66_crews.jpg)
Expedition 66 was the 66th long-duration expedition to the International Space Station. The mission began after the departure of Soyuz MS-18 on 17 October 2021.[2] It was commanded by European Space Agency astronaut Thomas Pesquet, the fourth European astronaut and first French astronaut to command the ISS[3] until 8 November 2021 when Russian cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov, who arrived aboard Soyuz MS-19, took over his command.[4]
Pesquet was transported to the ISS on SpaceX Crew-2 in April 2021, joined by NASA astronauts Shane Kimbrough and Megan McArthur and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Akihiko Hoshide.[5] Crew-2 from Expedition 65 extended their tour of duty on the ISS to become part of Expedition 66,[6] along with Russian cosmonaut Pyotr Dubrov and NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei, who both launched on Soyuz MS-18 and returned to Earth on Soyuz MS-19, following their extended mission. Russian cosmonaut Shkaplerov launched on Soyuz MS-19, along with two participants in the joint film project between Roscosmos and Channel One, The Challenge: film director Klim Shipenko and actress Yulia Peresild.
SpaceX Crew-3, launched 10 November 2021, carried NASA astronauts Raja Chari, Thomas Marshburn, and Kayla Barron and ESA astronaut Matthias Maurer to the ISS.[7] At the end of Expedition 66, they remained on the ISS as part of Expedition 67 while Dubrov and Vande Hei returned to Earth aboard Soyuz MS-19.[8] However, continued international collaboration has been thrown into doubt by the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine and related sanctions on Russia.[9]
Crew
[edit]Flight | Astronaut | First part (17 October – 8 November 2021) |
Second part (8–11 November 2021)[10] |
Third part (11 November 2021 – 18 March 2022) |
Fourth part (18 – 30 March 2022) |
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Soyuz MS-19 | ![]() Fourth and last spaceflight |
Flight Engineer | Commander | ||
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Flight Engineer | ||||
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Flight Engineer | ||||
SpaceX Crew-2 | ![]() Third and last spaceflight |
Flight Engineer | Off Station | ||
![]() Second spaceflight |
Flight Engineer | Off Station | |||
![]() Third spaceflight |
Flight Engineer | Off Station | |||
![]() Second spaceflight |
Commander | Off Station | |||
SpaceX Crew-3 | ![]() First spaceflight |
Off Station | Flight Engineer | ||
![]() Third and last spaceflight |
Off Station | Flight Engineer | |||
![]() First spaceflight |
Off Station | Flight Engineer | |||
![]() First spaceflight |
Off Station | Flight Engineer | |||
Soyuz MS-21 | ![]() Third spaceflight |
Off Station | Flight Engineer | ||
![]() Only spaceflight |
Off Station | Flight Engineer | |||
![]() First spaceflight |
Off Station | Flight Engineer |
Notes
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ a b "ISS Expedition 66". spacefacts.de. 6 November 2021. Retrieved 6 November 2021.
- ^ "NASA Television Upcoming Events". 16 October 2017. Archived from the original on 2021-09-24. Retrieved 2021-09-24.
- ^ York, Joanna (2021-03-19). "French astronaut next International Space Station commander". www.connexionfrance.com. Retrieved 2021-04-21.
- ^ "Space Launch Now - ISS Expedition 66 Change of Command Ceremony".
- ^ Gohd, Chelsea (23 April 2021). "SpaceX's Crew-2 launch lights up the predawn sky with a spectacular show (photos)". Space.com. Retrieved 24 April 2021.
- ^ "Alpha 2021" (PDF). esamultimedia.esa.int. European Space Agency. Retrieved 2021-04-21.
- ^ "NASA, SpaceX Adjust Crew-2 Station Departure Date". 8 November 2021.
- ^ "Soyuz MS-19 to send a "movie crew" to ISS". www.russianspaceweb.com. Retrieved 2021-10-04.
- ^ Witze, Alexandra (11 March 2022). "Russia's invasion of Ukraine is redrawing the geopolitics of space". Nature. doi:10.1038/d41586-022-00727-x. PMID 35277688. S2CID 247407886. Retrieved 13 March 2022.
- ^ "NASA SpaceX Crew-2 to Discuss Station Mission, Upcoming Splashdown". NASA. 4 November 2021. Retrieved 2021-11-05.