ISS expedition 26

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Mission dates
Mission:	ISS expedition 26
Crew:	6th
Rescue ships:	Soyuz TMA-01M , Soyuz TMA-20
Space station:	International space station
Start:	November 26, 2010, 1:23 UTC
Started by:	Decoupling from Soyuz TMA-19
The End:	March 16, 2011, 4:27 UTC
Ended by:	Decoupling from Soyuz TMA-01M
Duration:	110d 3h 4min
Team photo
v. l. To the right: Oleg Skripotschka, Alexander Kaleri, Dmitri Kondratjew, Paolo Nespoli, Catherine Coleman and Scott Kelly
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Previous mission: ISS expedition 25 Next mission: ISS expedition 27

ISS Expedition 26 is the mission name for the 26th long-term crew of the International Space Station (ISS). The mission began on November 26, 2010 at 1:23 UTC with the decoupling of the Soyuz TMA-19 spacecraft from the ISS. The end was marked by the decoupling of Soyuz TMA-01M on March 16, 2011 4:27 UTC.

team

• Scott Joseph Kelly (3rd space flight), commander ( USA / NASA ) ( Soyuz TMA-01M )
• Alexander Jurjewitsch Kaleri (5th space flight), flight engineer ( Russia / Roscosmos ) (Soyuz TMA-01M)
• Oleg Iwanowitsch Skripotschka (1st space flight), flight engineer (Russia / Roskosmos) (Soyuz TMA-01M)

Additionally from December 17th 2010:

• Dmitri Jurjewitsch Kondratjew (1st space flight), flight engineer (Russia / Roscosmos) ( Soyuz TMA-20 )
• Catherine Grace Coleman (3rd Spaceflight), Flight Engineer (USA / NASA) (Soyuz TMA-20)
• Paolo Nespoli (2nd space flight), flight engineer ( Italy / ESA ) (Soyuz TMA-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 two Soyuz feeder spaceships TMA-01M and TMA-20 (see there) are used as substitute crews for Expedition 26. As a rule, these crews are deployed two missions later.

Mission history

On January 21, 2011 Dmitri Kondratjew and Oleg Skripotschka completed an outboard mission in Orlan MK spacesuits, during which they completed the high-speed transmission system (100 MByte / s to Earth) on the Zvezda module, installed a camera on the Rassvet module and that Disassembled the material experiment Expose-R and the failed plasma pulse generator for ionospheric investigation. The mission lasted 5 hours and 23 minutes.

See also

• List of unmanned missions to the International Space Station
• List of space exits
• List of spacemen

Web links

Commons : ISS Expedition 26  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• ISS-Expedition 26 at Raumfahrer.net (German)
• ISS-Expedition 26 at Spacefacts.de
• ISS Expedition 26 on NASA's website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} NASA: International Space Station Daily Report , accessed on March 16, 2011 (English)
2. ↑ FliegerRevue March 2011, pp. 42–44, Europe's third long-term flight - Mission Soyuz TMA 20 - Expedition 26/27
3. ↑ Cosmonauts Perform 27th Russian Space Station Spacewalk. NASA, January 21, 2011, accessed February 23, 2011 . 
4. ↑ Ralf Möllenbeck: First space exit of the ISS long-term crew 26. Raumfahrer.net, January 21, 2011, accessed on February 23, 2011 .