ISS expedition 29

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Mission dates
Mission:	ISS expedition 29
Crew:	6th
Rescue ships:	Soyuz TMA-02M , Soyuz TMA-22
Space station:	International space station
Start:	September 16, 2011, 12:38 am UTC
Started by:	Decoupling from Soyuz TMA-21
The End:	November 21, 2011, 23:00 UTC
Ended by:	Decoupling from Soyuz TMA-02M
Duration:	66d 22h 22min
Team photo
v. l. To the right: Satoshi Furukawa, Mike Fossum, Sergei Wolkow, Anatoli Iwanischin, Daniel Burbank and Anton Schkaplerow
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Previous mission: ISS expedition 28 Next mission: ISS expedition 30

ISS Expedition 29 is the mission name for the 29th long-term crew of the International Space Station (ISS). The mission began with the decoupling of the Soyuz TMA-21 spacecraft from the ISS on September 16, 2011 at 0:38 UTC . The end was marked by the decoupling of Soyuz TMA-02M on November 21, 2011 at 23:00 UTC.

team

• Michael Edward Fossum (3rd Spaceflight), Commander ( US / NASA ) ( Soyuz TMA-02M )
• Satoshi Furukawa (1st Spaceflight), Flight Engineer ( Japan / JAXA ) (Soyuz TMA-02M)
• Sergei Alexandrowitsch Wolkow (2nd space flight), flight engineer ( Russia / Roscosmos ) (Soyuz TMA-02M)

Additionally from November 16, 2011:

• Anton Nikolajewitsch Schkaplerow (1st space flight), flight engineer (Russia / Roscosmos) ( Soyuz TMA-22 )
• Anatoli Alexejewitsch Ivanishin (1st space flight), flight engineer (Russia / Roscosmos) (Soyuz TMA-22)
• Daniel Christopher Burbank (3rd space flight), flight engineer (USA / NASA) (Soyuz TMA-22)

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-02M and TMA-22 (see there) are considered substitute crews for Expedition 29. As a rule, these crews are deployed two missions later.

Mission history

Originally, the second part of the crew was supposed to start on September 22, 2011 with Soyuz TMA-22. After the misfire of the third stage of the Soyuz-U rocket from Progress M-12M on 24 August, the Mission the cause of the false start has been moved to November, at first be able to determine. The launch finally took place on November 14th, and the spaceship docked at the space station on November 16th.

Fossum, Furukawa and Wolkow only had a week to hand over the ISS to their colleagues Burbank, Schkaplerow and Ivanishin, as the Soyuz TMA-02M landing on the landing site in Kazakhstan could not take place after November 22nd due to adverse weather and daylight conditions at the landing site in Kazakhstan . To support the handover, the Soyuz TMA-02M crew made a series of videos explaining the current state of the ISS to the Soyuz TMA-22 crew.

See also

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

Web links

Commons : ISS Expedition 29  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• ISS-Expedition 29 at Raumfahrer.net (German)
• ISS-Expedition 29 at Spacefacts.de
• ISS-Expedition 29 on the website of NASA (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} NASA: International Space Station Daily Report , accessed on February 12, 2011 (English).
2. ↑ Mike Suffredini: International Space Station Program Status , September 13, 2010 (PDF; 2.91 MB, English).
3. ↑ Pete Harding: Soyuz TMA-02M spacecraft returning to Earth with three crewmembers. NASAspaceflight.com, November 21, 2011, accessed November 22, 2011 .