ISS expedition 60

Mission emblem
Mission dates
Mission:	ISS expedition 60
Crew:	6th
Rescue ships:	Soyuz MS-12 , Soyuz MS-13
Space station:	International space station
Start:	June 24, 2019, 23:25 UTC
Started by:	Decoupling from Soyuz MS-11
The End:	October 3, 2019, 07:37 UTC
Ended by:	Decoupling from Soyuz MS-12
Duration:	120d 8h 12min
Team photo
v. l. i. UZS .: Christina Hammock Koch, Alexei Ovtschinin (commandant), Nick Hague, Luca Parmitano, Alexander Skworzow and Andrew Morgan
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Previous mission: ISS Expedition 59 Next mission: ISS Expedition 61

ISS Expedition 60 is the mission name for the 60th long-term crew of the International Space Station (ISS). The mission began with the disengagement of the Soyuz MS-11 spacecraft from the ISS on June 24, 2019 and ended with the disengagement of Soyuz MS-12 on October 3, 2019.

An eagle is indicated in the emblem of the mission. It thus refers to the logo of the Apollo 11 mission , whose 50th anniversary coincided with the expedition. The Apollo 11 Lunar Module was named Eagle .

team

Taken over from ISS Expedition 59 :

• Alexei Nikolajewitsch Ovtschinin (2nd space flight), Commander ( Russia / Roskosmos , Soyuz MS-12 )
• Tyler N. Hague (1st space flight), flight engineer ( USA / NASA , Soyuz MS-12)
• Christina Hammock Koch (1st space flight), flight engineer (USA / NASA, Soyuz MS-12)

Additionally from July 20, 2019:

• Luca Parmitano (2nd space flight), flight engineer, ( Italy / ESA , Soyuz MS-13 )
• Alexander Alexandrowitsch Skworzow (3rd space flight), flight engineer (Russia / Roskosmos, Soyuz MS-13)
• Andrew Morgan (1st spaceflight), flight engineer, (USA / NASA, Soyuz MS-13)

After the ISS was manned by only three people for a short time after a Soyuz had undocked until Expedition 59, the order was reversed starting with Expedition 60. That is why the following guests joined the participants of Expedition 60 on 25 September 2019 with Soyuz MS-15 :

• Oleg Skripotschka (3rd space flight, Russia / Roskosmos, Soyuz MS-15 )
• Jessica Meir (1st space flight, USA / NASA, Soyuz MS-15)
• Hassa al-Mansuri (1st space flight, UAE / MBRSC , Soyuz MS-15 / MS-12)

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-12 and MS-13 (see there) are considered substitute crews for Expedition 60. As a rule, these crews are deployed two missions later.

Mission description

The crew on July 20, 2019

In the first four weeks of the expedition, the ISS was only manned by the commander Alexei Ovtschinin and the flight engineers Nick Hague and Christina Koch. On July 20, 2019, the feeder Soyuz MS-13 reached the station after a six-hour flight, so that the expedition crew was again increased to six people.

On October 2nd, Luca Parmitano became the first Italian to take command of the ISS . After the undocking of Soyuz MS-12 with Ovchinin, Hague and al-Mansuri, ISS expedition 61 began on October 3 .

See also

• List of ISS expeditions
• List of spacemen on the International Space Station
• List of space exits
• List of manned space flights

Web links

Commons : ISS Expedition 60  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• ISS-Expedition 60 at Spacefacts.de
• ISS-Expedition 60 on the website of NASA (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Экипажи на подготовке. Центр подготовки космонавтов имени Ю. А. Гагарина, accessed December 10, 2017 (Russian). 
2. ↑ MBRSC selects Hazzaa Al Mansoori as Prime Astronaut for ISS Mission. Emirates News Agency, April 12, 2019, accessed April 12, 2019 . 
3. ↑ Expedition60 to Expedition 61 Change of Command Ceremony - October 2, 2019 . NASA video on Youtube, October 2, 2019.