ISS expedition 37

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Mission dates
Mission: ISS expedition 37
Crew: 6th
Rescue ships: Soyuz TMA-09M , Soyuz TMA-10M
Space station: International space station
Start: September 10, 2013, 23:37 UTC
Started by: Decoupling from Soyuz TMA-08M
The End: November 10, 2013, 23:26 UTC
Ended by: Decoupling from Soyuz TMA-09M
Duration: 60d 23h 19min
Number of EVAs : 1
Total length of the EVAs: 5h, 50min
Team photo
v. l. To the right: Karen Nyberg, Fyodor Jurtschichin, Luca Parmitano, Michael Hopkins, Oleg Kotow and Sergei Rjazanski
v. l. To the right: Karen Nyberg, Fyodor Jurtschichin, Luca Parmitano, Michael Hopkins, Oleg Kotow and Sergei Rjazanski
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ISS-Expedition 37 is the mission name for the 37th long-term crew of the International Space Station (ISS). The mission began with the disengagement of the Soyuz TMA-08M spacecraft from the ISS on September 10, 2013 and ended with the disengagement of the Soyuz TMA-09M on November 10, 2013.

team

additionally from September 26, 2013:

Before the end of Expedition 37, the next three spacemen arrived to hand over a torch for the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi (Russia):

Before the Soyuz TMA-09M undocked, Kotow took command with Jurtschichin, Nyberg and Parmitano and then formed the crew of ISS Expedition 38 with Ryazanski, Hopkins, Tjurin, Mastracchio and Wakata .

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-09M and TMA-10M (see there) are used as backup crews for Expedition 37. As a rule, these crews are deployed two missions later.

Mission description

The ISS expedition 37 began with the decoupling of the Soyuz-TMA 08M spacecraft from the station. In the course of the mission, around 100 experiments in the fields of astronomy, biology, materials science, medicine, physics and technology were carried out or supervised. An innovation on the Soyuz spacecraft Soyuz-TMA 10M, which brought the second part of the crew on September 25, was the use of an improved control and connection system Kwant, with which the use of the Lutsch-type relay satellites should be possible.

Originally, the Russian laboratory module Naúka was supposed to be connected to the station while the crew was on duty. Due to inaccurate work, its start is delayed further, at least until November 2015.

The next spacecraft that was attached to the ISS using a manipulator arm was Cygnus 2 (Orb-CRS-1), which took off on September 18, but had a problem with the formatting of the GPS data, which is why the approach to the station was moved. The freighter reached the ISS on September 29th.

At the end of October, the fourth Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV 4) uncoupled from the stern of the ISS and after several braking maneuvers burned up on November 2nd in thick layers of the atmosphere. ATV 4 was launched on June 5th from the Kourou Space Center in French Guiana at the helm of an Ariane 5 launcher and was nicknamed Albert Einstein. With fuel and cargo it had a total mass of a good 20.2 tons. The individual components of the payload accounted for around 6.6 tonnes of this. In August, September and October the freighter had carried out three major orbit lifting maneuvers for the entire, more than 400 t inert station. After the cargo was unloaded, the spacecraft's tanks and hold had been filled with litter. On October 25, the hatches at the stern of the station were closed.

ATV 4 made room for the Soyuz-TMA 09M spacecraft, which was decoupled from its berth at the Rasswjet module on November 1st and then docked again at the stern. On November 7th, the Soyuz-TMA 11M spacecraft launched and moored at Rassvjet. This was the second time that three Soyuz spaceships were docked on the ISS. On November 9th, an Olympic torch was symbolically handed over during an external mission, which was then brought back to earth with Soyuz-TMA 09M. This ended the ISS expedition 37.

Outboard use

An Olympic torch, which had been brought to the ISS on Thursday, was passed from one runner to the next outside of the station during an spacecraft mission on the afternoon and evening of November 9, 2013. This took place shortly after the exit began at around 4 p.m. CET. The two cosmonauts Oleg Kotow and Sergej Ryazansky had left the station via the Pirs module 26 minutes earlier. Then the torch, which was secured by a thin cable during the action, was stowed back in the exit module.

Then a foot bracket and a handrail were dismantled and an attempt was made to install them at a new location. After a few problems with it, the decision was made to first take it to the exit module for checking. Furthermore, a flat antenna for radiometric measurements for earthquake prediction on the outside of Zvezda was to be deactivated and folded up, but this did not fully succeed, so it was unfolded again.

Finally, a large number of photos of various workplaces and objects were taken. The exit ended after 5 hours and 50 minutes at around 9:24 p.m. CET, according to official Moscow time it was already November 10th (0:24 a.m. CET).

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Web links

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