ISS expedition 20

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Mission dates
Mission: ISS expedition 20
Crew: 6th
Rescue ships: Soyuz TMA-14 , Soyuz TMA-15
Space station: International space station
Start: May 29, 2009 12:34 UTC
Started by: Coupling of Soyuz TMA-15
The End: October 11, 2009 01:07 UTC
Ended by: Decoupling from Soyuz TMA-14
Duration: 134d, 12h, 33min
Number of EVAs : 2
Total length of the EVAs: 5h 6min
Team photo
v. l. No. front: Frank De Winne, Gennady Padalka, Roman Romanenko back: Robert Thirsk, Michael Barratt, Nicole Stott, Tim Kopra, Koichi Wakata
v. l. No. front: Frank De Winne, Gennady Padalka, Roman Romanenko
back: Robert Thirsk, Michael Barratt, Nicole Stott, Tim Kopra, Koichi Wakata
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ISS Expedition 20 was the mission name for the 20th long-term crew of the International Space Station (ISS). With the arrival of Soyuz TMA-15 on May 29, 2009, ISS expedition 20 began and the crew size of the ISS increased from three to six space travelers. Soyuz TMA-15 was next to Soyuz TMA-14 as a second escape capsule (for three people each) permanently docked on the ISS. The mission ended on October 11, 2009 with the decoupling from Soyuz TMA-14.

team

On November 21, 2008, NASA announced the official crew of ISS Expedition 20:

Substitute team

Since Expedition 20, no official replacement team has been announced due to the permanent training for the six-person crew. Unofficially, the backup crews of the feeder spaceships (see there) are considered substitutes. As a rule, these are then used two missions later.

Mission history

The Japanese Kōichi Wakata arrived on March 17, 2009 with STS-119 on the space station and worked there as a member of the ISS expedition 18 . The two spacemen Padalka and Barratt started on March 26, 2009 on board the Soyuz TMA-14 and together with Wakata formed ISS Expedition 19 .

ISS Expedition 20 officially began with the arrival of Soyuz TMA-15 on May 29, 2009. On board were the three spacemen Frank De Winne , Roman Yuryevich Romanenko and Robert Thirsk . From this point on, the long-term crew of the ISS consisted of six people for the first time.

In preparation for the arrival of the Russian Poisk module in November 2009, two EVAs took place in June 2009 , both carried out by Gennadi Padalka and Michael Barratt. At the first exit on June 5, passive antennas were for the course -Dockingsystem on Zvezda mounted module, wired and then photographed. The astronauts needed 4 hours and 54 minutes to do this. The second exit took place on June 10th and lasted 12 minutes. Padalka and Barratt removed a cover in the Zvezda module docking system.

In July 2009, Timothy Kopra came on board the space station with STS-127 and replaced Kōichi Wakata, who flew back to Earth on the shuttle. In August 2009, the previous crew member Timothy Kopra was replaced by Nicole Stott on the STS-128 space shuttle mission .

The end of ISS Expedition 20 and with it the beginning of ISS Expedition 21 took place on October 11, 2009, when Padalka and Barratt returned to Earth on the Soyuz TMA-14 spacecraft . Shortly beforehand, two new crew members, Maxim Surajew and Jeffrey Williams, were transported to the ISS with the Soyuz TMA-16 .

See also

Web links

Commons : ISS Expedition 20  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

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  1. ↑ Katherine Trinidad, Nicole Cloutier-Lemasters: NASA Assigns Space Station Crews, Updates Expedition Numbering. NASA, November 21, 2008, accessed November 21, 2008 .
  2. ^ Nicole Cloutier-Lemasters, Michael Curie: NASA Announces Change for Return of Station Crew Members. NASA, March 3, 2009, accessed May 22, 2009 .
  3. ↑ ISS On-Orbit Status 05/06/09. NASA, June 5, 2009, accessed June 5, 2009 .
  4. ^ Russian "Internal" Spacewalk Complete. NASA, June 10, 2009, accessed June 10, 2009 . .