Expedition 23
Mission type | Long-duration expedition |
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Mission duration | 76 days, 16 hours, 1 minute |
Expedition | |
Space station | International Space Station |
Began | 18 March 2010, 08:03 | UTC
Ended | 2 June 2010, 00:04 | UTC
Arrived aboard | Soyuz TMA-17 Soyuz TMA-18 |
Departed aboard | Soyuz TMA-17 Soyuz TMA-18 |
Crew | |
Crew size | 6 |
Members | Expedition 22/23: Oleg Kotov Soichi Noguchi Timothy Creamer Expedition 23/24: Aleksandr Skvortsov Mikhail Korniyenko Tracy Caldwell Dyson |
Expedition 23 mission patch (l-r) Korniyenko, Caldwell Dyson, Skvortsov, Kotov, Creamer and Noguchi |
Expedition 23 (Russian: МКС-23) was the 23rd long-duration mission to the International Space Station (ISS). Expedition 23 began with the Soyuz TMA-16 undocking on 18 March 2010. Shortly thereafter cosmonauts Aleksandr Skvortsov and Mikhail Korniyenko and astronaut Tracy Caldwell Dyson arrived at the Space Station on Soyuz TMA-18 on 4 April 2010.[1] The Soyuz spacecraft lifted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome at 00:04 EST on 2 April 2010.[2]
Crew
[edit]Position | First part (March 2010 to April 2010) |
Second part (April 2010 to June 2010) |
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Commander | Oleg Kotov, RSA Second spaceflight | |
Flight Engineer 1 | Soichi Noguchi, JAXA Second spaceflight | |
Flight Engineer 2 | Timothy Creamer, NASA Only spaceflight | |
Flight Engineer 3 | Aleksandr Skvortsov, RSA First spaceflight | |
Flight Engineer 4 | Mikhail Korniyenko, RSA First spaceflight | |
Flight Engineer 5 | Tracy Caldwell Dyson, NASA Second spaceflight |
- Source
- NASA[3]
Backup crew
[edit]- Douglas H. Wheelock – Commander
- Anton Shkaplerov
- Satoshi Furukawa
- Mikhail Tyurin
- Aleksandr Samokutyayev
- Scott J. Kelly
Mission overview
[edit]Three Russian cosmonauts, two American and one Japanese astronauts made up the Expedition 23 crew. It was the first ISS crew to include three Russians at once.[4] The Expedition 23 crew continued outfitting the newest modules of the nearly completed space station. The crew welcomed the shuttle flight STS-131 in April 2010. The Expedition 23 crew also saw the arrival of the Rasvet Russian docking module (MRM1) aboard Space Shuttle Atlantis on STS-132, which launched on 14 May 2010.
Gallery
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Caldwell Dyson, Skvortsov and Korniyenko in front of their Soyuz TMA-18 spacecraft.
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Skvortsov, Caldwell Dyson and Korniyenko wave farewell from the bottom of the Soyuz rocket.
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Soyuz TMA-18 launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome.
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Expedition 23 crew members in the Destiny laboratory.
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STS-131 & Expedition 23 group portrait.
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Expedition 23 lands.
References
[edit]This article incorporates public domain material from websites or documents of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
- ^ Harwood, William (4 April 2010). "Soyuz capsule arrives at International Space Station". Spaceflightnow. Retrieved 6 April 2010.
- ^ William Harwood (2 April 2010). "Soyuz crew transport capsule heads for space station". Spaceflightnow. Retrieved 6 April 2010.
- ^ NASA HQ (2008). "NASA Assigns Space Station Crews, Updates Expedition Numbering". NASA. Archived from the original on 17 April 2012. Retrieved 21 November 2008.
- ^ NASA (April 2010). "Press Kit Expedition 23 and 24 Science for Six" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 24 April 2010. Retrieved 6 April 2010.
- ^ "Four Women will Fly in Space for the First Time in the History". Russian Federal Space Agency. 3 April 2010. Archived from the original on 8 April 2010. Retrieved 3 April 2010.