ISS expedition 49

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Mission dates
Mission:	ISS expedition 49
Crew:	6th
Rescue ships:	Soyuz MS-01 , Soyuz MS-02
Space station:	International space station
Start:	September 6, 2016, 21:51 UTC
Started by:	Decoupling from Soyuz TMA-20M
The End:	October 30, 2016, 00:35 UTC
Ended by:	Decoupling from Soyuz MS-01
Duration:	53 d, 2 h, 44 min
Team photo
v. l. To the right: Sergei Ryschikow, Robert Kimbrough, Andrei Borissenko, Kathleen Rubins, Anatoli Iwanischin and Takuya Ōnishi
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Previous mission: ISS Expedition 48 Next mission: ISS Expedition 50

ISS Expedition 49 is the mission name for the 49th long-term crew of the International Space Station (ISS). The mission began with the disengagement of the Soyuz TMA-20M spacecraft from the ISS on September 6, 2016 and ended with the disengagement of Soyuz MS-01 on October 30, 2016.

team

Taken over from ISS Expedition 48 :

• Anatoli Alexejewitsch Ivanischin (2nd space flight), commander ( Russia / Roskosmos , Soyuz MS-01 )
• Takuya Ōnishi (1st spaceflight), flight engineer ( Japan / JAXA , Soyuz MS-01)
• Kathleen Rubins (1st spaceflight), flight engineer ( USA / NASA , Soyuz MS-01)

Additionally from October 21, 2016:

• Robert Shane Kimbrough (2nd spaceflight), flight engineer (USA / NASA, Soyuz MS-02 )
• Andrei Iwanowitsch Borissenko (2nd space flight), flight engineer (Russia / Roskosmos, Soyuz MS-02)
• Sergei Nikolajewitsch Ryschikow (1st space flight), flight engineer (Russia / Roskosmos, Soyuz MS-02)

About a day and a half before Soyuz MS-01 undocked with Iwanischin, Ōnishi and Rubins, Kimbrough took command of the ISS . Together with Borissenko and Ryschikow, he formed the initial crew of Expedition 50 .

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 MS-01 and MS-02 (see there) are considered substitute crews for Expedition 49. As a rule, these crews are deployed two missions later.

Freight traffic

On October 14, Progress MS-02 was disconnected from the Zvezda module after more than six months .

On October 23, the Cygnus OA-5 was coupled to the Unity module via Canadarm2.

See also

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

Web links

Commons : ISS Expedition 49  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• ISS-Expedition 49 at Spacefacts.de
• ISS-Expedition 49 on the website of NASA (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b} NASA Television to Air Return of Three Space Station Crew Members. In: nasa.gov. Retrieved October 26, 2016 (English). 
2. ^ Tomasz Nowakowski: Expedition 49 trio ready to leave International Space Station . Spaceflight Insider, October 29, 2016.