ISS expedition 57

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Mission: ISS expedition 57
Crew: 3 (+3)
Rescue ships: Soyuz MS-09
Space station: International space station
Start: October 4, 2018, 07:57 UTC
Started by: Decoupling from Soyuz MS-08
The End: December 20, 2018, 01:40 UTC
Ended by: Decoupling from Soyuz MS-09
Duration: 76d 17h 43min
Number of EVAs : 1
Total length of the EVAs: 7h 45min
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v. l. To the right: Serena Auñón-Chancellor, Alexander Gerst (commandant) and Sergei Prokopjew
v. l. To the right: Serena Auñón-Chancellor, Alexander Gerst (commandant) and Sergei Prokopjew
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ISS Expedition 57 is the mission name for the 57th long-term crew of the International Space Station (ISS). The mission began with the decoupling of the Soyuz MS-08 spacecraft from the ISS on October 4, 2018 and ended with the decoupling of Soyuz MS-09 on December 20, 2018. Alexander Gerst was the first time a German spaceman was in command of the ISS .

team

Taken over from ISS Expedition 56 :

In October 2018, Alexei Ovchinin , Tyler N. Hague and Nikolai Tichonow were supposed to complete the expedition crew with the Soyuz MS-10 feeder flight. Due to delays in the planned start of the Russian research module Naúka , however, Tichonow was first removed from the team - once again; then MS-10 did not reach Earth orbit due to a problem with the launcher and had to make an emergency landing . Ovchinin and Hague were unharmed.

As an alternative, the Soyuz MS-11 flight was brought forward to December 3, 2018 and with its three participants ...

For the time being, the target strength of six ISS crew members has been reached again:

Shortly before the Soyuz MS-09 undocked with Prokopjew, Auñón-Chancellor and Gerst, Kononenko took over command. With Saint-Jacques and McClain, he formed the crew of Expeditions 58 and 59 .

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-09 and MS-11 (see there) are considered substitute crews for Expedition 57. As a rule, these crews are deployed two missions later. Due to the special situation after the MS-10 false start, the deployment of the first backup crew (Oleg Kononenko, David Saint-Jacques and Anne McClain) was brought forward this time, so that they came on board during Expedition 57 and completed a long-term mission.

Mission description

Freight traffic

On November 7th at 16:51 UTC, HTV-7 was decoupled from the Harmony module using the Canadarm2 robotic arm .

On November 18, at 19:28 UTC, Progress docked MS-10 with the Zvezda module. The freighter remained connected to the ISS for seven months before being loaded with waste, decoupled and burned up over the South Pacific in early June 2019.

Cygnus NG-10 just before docking

On November 19, Serena Auñón-Chancellor and Alexander Gerst used the Canadarm2 gripper arm and captured the cargo spacecraft Cygnus NG-10 (called "SS John Young "). Cygnus was rotated by commands from the ground station and coupled to the underside of the Unity module .

Dragon CRS-16 just before docking

The Dragon CRS-16 spacecraft reached the ISS on December 8th and was captured by Alexander Gerst and Serena Auñón-Chancellor using the Canadarm2 robotic arm . The transporter was docked at 15:36 UTC on the earth-facing side of Harmony .

External works

Oleg Kononenko and Sergei Prokopjew on the spacecraft

On December 11th, Oleg Kononenko and Sergei Prokopjew left the station through the airlock in the Pirs module . The cosmonauts examined the damaged outer hull of Soyuz MS-09 and exchanged experiments on the Rassvet module.

See also

Web links

Commons : ISS Expedition 57  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ NASA: NASA to Air International Space Station Update Briefing Today. In: NASA Media Advisory M18-151. October 11, 2018, accessed October 11, 2018 .