Expedition 33
Long-duration mission to the International Space Station
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Mission type | ISS Expedition |
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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 |
![]() Expedition 33 mission patch ![]() (l-r) Williams, Malenchenko, Hoshide, Tarelkin, Novitskiy and Ford ISS expeditions ← Expedition 32 Expedition 34 → |
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–October 2012) | Second Part (October–November 2012) |
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Commander | ![]() Second spaceflight | |
Flight Engineer 1 | ![]() Fifth spaceflight | |
Flight Engineer 2 | ![]() Second spaceflight | |
Flight Engineer 3 | ![]() Second and last spaceflight | |
Flight Engineer 4 | ![]() First spaceflight | |
Flight Engineer 5 | ![]() Only spaceflight |
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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
- ^ a b c "Expedition 33". National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Retrieved 16 September 2012.
- ^ NASA HQ (2010). "NASA And Partners Assign Crews For Upcoming Space Station Missions". NASA. Retrieved 8 July 2010.
- ^ "Astronaut Bio: Sunita Williams". NASA. Retrieved 19 February 2011.
- ^ "Selection of Astronaut Akihiko Hoshide as a Member of the ISS Expedition Crew". JAXA. Retrieved 19 February 2011.
- ^ "NASA, ESA Use Experimental Interplanetary Internet to Test Robot from International Space Station". 7 April 2015.
External links
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