ISS expedition 54

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Mission dates
Mission: ISS expedition 54
Crew: 6th
Rescue ships: Soyuz MS-06 , Soyuz MS-07
Space station: International space station
Start: December 14, 2017, 05:14 UTC
Started by: Decoupling from Soyuz MS-05
The End: February 27, 2018, 23:08 UTC
Ended by: Decoupling from Soyuz MS-06
Duration: 75d 17h 54min
Number of EVAs : 3
Total length of the EVAs: 21h 34min
Team photo
v. l. To the right: Joseph Acaba, Mark Vande Hei, Alexander Missurkin, Anton Schkaplerow, Scott Tingle and Norishige Kanai
v. l. To the right: Joseph Acaba, Mark Vande Hei, Alexander Missurkin, Anton Schkaplerow, Scott Tingle and Norishige Kanai
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ISS-Expedition 54 is the mission name for the 54th long-term crew of the International Space Station (ISS). The mission began with the decoupling of the Soyuz MS-05 spacecraft from the ISS on December 14, 2017 and ended with the decoupling of Soyuz MS-06 on February 27, 2018.

team

Taken over from ISS Expedition 53 :

Additionally from December 19, 2017:

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-06 and MS-07 (see there) are used as backup crews for Expedition 54. As a rule, these crews are deployed two missions later.

Mission description

Crew recording on December 19, 2017

Crew exchange

On December 19, 2017 - five days after the start of the expedition - the feeder spaceship Soyuz MS-07 docked with the ISS after a two-day flight; the regular crew was increased again to six people.

On the day before Soyuz MS-06 undocked with Alexander Missurkin, Mark Vande Hei and Joseph Acaba, Anton Schkaplerow took over command of the ISS . Together with Norishige Kanai and Scott Tingle, he formed the initial crew of the subsequent ISS Expedition 55 .

Freight traffic

Dragon CRS-13 at the ISS

The Dragon CRS-13 spaceship reached the ISS on December 17 and was captured by Mark Vande Hei and Joseph Acaba using the Canadarm2 robotic arm . The transporter was docked at 13:26 UTC on the Earth-facing side of Harmony .

On December 28th,  Progress MS-06 was disconnected from the docking port of the  Zvezda module.

On January 13, 2018, Dragon CRS-13 was detached from the Harmony module by Joseph Acaba and Scott Tingle using the Canadarm2 robotic arm and placed in its own orbit. The splashing in the Pacific took place on the same day.

On February 15 at 10:38 UTC, Progress docked MS-08 with the Zvezda module. The freighter is to remain connected to the ISS for six months before being decoupled in August 2018 when loaded with waste and burned up over the South Pacific.

External works

Scott Tingle on his first outboard mission

On January 23rd, Mark Vande Hei and Scott Tingle replaced one of two Latching End Effectors (LEE) on the Canadarm2 gripper arm as part of an EVA.

On February 2, Alexander Missurkin and Anton Schkaplerow left the station through the airlock in the Pirs module . The main task was to dismantle and drop the “ShA-317A-II” radio receiver and the “Lira” antenna system on the back of the Zvezda module. The cosmonauts also took detailed photos of the outer shell of the Russian modules, especially a material sample cassette.

On February 16, Mark Vande Hei and Norishige Kanai conducted the third field assignment. The two astronauts moved the Latching End Effector (LEE), the "hand" of the Canadarm2 gripper arm, from a platform on the carriage ( Mobile Base System ) of the station to the Quest airlock .

See also

Web links

Commons : ISS Expedition 54  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Christine Lunsford: Space Station Photos: Expedition 55 Crew in Orbit . Space.com, March 4, 2018.