ISS expedition 30

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Mission dates
Mission:	ISS expedition 30
Crew:	6th
Rescue ships:	Soyuz TMA-22 , Soyuz TMA-03M
Space station:	International space station
Start:	November 21, 2011, 23:00 UTC
Started by:	Decoupling from Soyuz TMA-02M
The End:	April 27, 2012, 08:18 UTC
Ended by:	Decoupling from Soyuz TMA-22
Duration:	157d 9h 18min
Number of EVAs :	1
Total length of the EVAs:	6h 15min
Team photo
v. l. To the right: Anton Schkaplerow, Daniel Burbank, Anatoli Iwanischin, André Kuipers, Oleg Kononenko and Donald Pettit
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Previous mission: ISS Expedition 29 Next mission: ISS expedition 31

ISS-Expedition 30 is the mission name for the 30th long-term crew of the International Space Station (ISS). The mission began with the disengagement of the Soyuz TMA-02M spacecraft from the ISS on November 21, 2011 at 23:00 UTC . The end was marked by the decoupling of Soyuz TMA-22 on April 27, 2012 8:18 UTC.

team

• Daniel Christopher Burbank (3rd space flight), commander ( USA / NASA ) ( Soyuz TMA-22 )
• 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)

Additionally from December 23, 2011:

• Oleg Dmitrijewitsch Kononenko (2nd space flight), flight engineer, (Russia, Roscosmos) ( Soyuz TMA-03M )
• André Kuipers (2nd spaceflight), flight engineer, ( Netherlands , ESA ) (Soyuz TMA-03M)
• Donald Roy Pettit (3rd Spaceflight), Flight Engineer, (USA, NASA) (Soyuz TMA-03M)

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-22 and TMA-03M (see there) are used as substitute crews for Expedition 30. As a rule, these crews are deployed two missions later.

Mission history

In January 2012 the crew received the Progress M-14M space freighter, followed in March by the European ATV-3 " Edoardo Amaldi " and in April Progress M-15M. Oleg Kononenko and Anton Schkaplerow carried out an external mission on February 16 to prepare for the undocking of the Pirs lock module in the summer of 2013. A Strela crane was implemented and material experiments were installed or recovered.

Expedition 30 was originally supposed to end on March 16, 2012. However, with the tightness test in was Energija -Werk Korolev , the re-entry capsule of the Soyuz TMA-04M spacecraft badly damaged. It was decided to scrap the entire spaceship and to accelerate the refurbishment of the spaceship originally intended for Soyuz TMA-05M . As a result, the start of Soyuz TMA-04M was postponed to May 15, 2012, and Expedition 30 was extended to April 27.

On March 24, 2012, the six astronauts had to leave the station and, as a precaution, retreat to the docked Soyuz spaceships. The day before, a piece of space debris that was threateningly close to the ISS had been discovered. It was a piece of debris from the communications satellite Kosmos 2251, which was formed during the satellite collision on February 10, 2009 . It was too late for the ISS to perform an evacuation maneuver, so the evacuation was prepared so that the astronauts could return to Earth if necessary. However, the wreckage passed the ISS at a distance of 11 km, so that the crew could return to the station.

See also

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

Web links

Commons : ISS Expedition 30  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• ISS-Expedition 30 at Raumfahrer.net (German)
• ISS-Expedition 30 at Spacefacts.de
• ISS-Expedition 30 on the website of NASA (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ NASA: International Space Station Daily Report , accessed November 13, 2011.
2. ↑ Pete Harding: Soyuz TMA-22 returns to Earth with three outbound ISS crewmembers. NASAspaceflight.com, April 27, 2007, accessed April 27, 2007 . 
3. ^ Expedition 30. NASA, accessed on March 12, 2012 (English). 
4. ↑ Mike Suffredini: International Space Station Program Status , September 13, 2010 (PDF; 2.91 MB, English).
5. ↑ Worldwide launch schedule. SPACEFLIGHT NOW, March 12, 2012, accessed March 12, 2012 . 
6. ^ Spacewalkers Move Crane, Install Experiment. NASA, February 16, 2012, accessed March 12, 2012 . 
7. ↑ Robert Pearlman: Soyuz TMA-04M launch reset for May 15.collectSPACE, February 2, 2012, accessed on March 12, 2012 . 
8. ^ William Harwood: Russia orders Soyuz delays in wake of test mishap. Spaceflightnow.com, February 2, 2012, accessed March 12, 2012 . 
9. ↑ Thomas Weyrauch: Collision alert on the International Space Station. raumfahrer.net, March 24, 2012, accessed on March 26, 2012 .