ISS expedition 58

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Mission dates
Mission:	ISS expedition 58
Crew:	3
Rescue ships:	Soyuz MS-11
Space station:	International space station
Start:	December 20, 2018, 01:40  UTC
Started by:	Decoupling from Soyuz MS-09
The End:	March 15, 2019, 01:01 UTC
Ended by:	Coupling of Soyuz MS-12
Duration:	84d 23h 21min
Team photo
v. l. To the right: Anne McClain, Oleg Kononenko (commandant) and David Saint-Jacques
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Previous mission: ISS Expedition 57 Next mission: ISS Expedition 59

ISS Expedition 58 is the mission name for the 58th long-term crew of the International Space Station (ISS). The mission began with the decoupling of the Soyuz MS-09 spacecraft from the ISS on December 20, 2018 and ended with the docking of Soyuz MS-12 on March 15, 2019.

team

Under normal circumstances, the crew of Soyuz MS-10 would have provided the first three of a total of six members of Expedition 58. First, however, Nikolai Tichonow was removed from the mission due to delays in the planned start of the Russian research module Naúka ; then MS-10 did not reach the ISS at all because of an anomaly during take-off. Instead, the Soyuz MS-11 flight was brought forward, the crew of which provided the participants in Expedition 58:

• Oleg Dmitrijewitsch Kononenko (4th space flight), Commander ( Russia / Roscosmos , Soyuz MS-11)
• David Saint-Jacques (1st spaceflight), flight engineer ( Canada / CSA , Soyuz MS-11)
• Anne McClain (1st spaceflight), flight engineer ( USA / NASA , Soyuz MS-11)

Substitute team

The replacement crew for an ISS expedition is recruited from the replacement crews for the feeder flights. Due to the unusual circumstances, the replacement crew of the first (non-arrived) feeder - Kononenko, Saint-Jacques and McClain - became the main crew of Soyuz MS-11 and in this way actually served as a substitute for Expedition 58.

Mission description

For the first time since 2009, the station was manned by only three people for the duration of an entire expedition. Only with the arrival of Soyuz MS-12 and the start of Expedition 61 was the crew increased to six again.

Freight traffic

Dragon CRS-16 shortly after undocking

On January 13, 2019, the Dragon CRS-16 was detached from the Harmony module using the Canadarm2 robot arm and placed in its own orbit. The splashing in the Pacific took place the following day.

On January 25, the Progress MS-09 was disconnected from the docking port of the Zvezda module.

Cygnus NG-10 shortly after undocking

Cygnus NG-10 (dubbed "SS John Young ") was decoupled from the ISS on February 8th.

SpX-DM1 just before docking

On March 3 at 10:51 UTC, SpX-DM1 , the first space flight of the reusable US spaceship Crew Dragon , docked with the ISS. Crew Dragon transported around 181 kg of equipment for the station's crew and brought time-sensitive research results back to Earth. The undocking maneuver took place on March 8 at 07:32 UTC. Then the spaceship landed on parachutes off the coast of Florida in the Atlantic . All previous Dragon landings had been in the Pacific .

See also

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

Web links

Commons : ISS Expedition 58  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• ISS Expedition 58 at Spacefacts.de
• ISS-Expedition 58 on the website of NASA (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ ISS Expedition 57 mission patch. collectspace, April 23, 2018, accessed May 4, 2018 . 
2. ↑ Loren Grush: NASA gives SpaceX the okay to launch new passenger spacecraft on uncrewed test flight. February 22, 2019, accessed March 3, 2019 . 
3. ↑ SpaceX capsule decouples from ISS. March 8, 2019, accessed March 8, 2019 .