ISS Expedition 62

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Mission dates
Mission: ISS Expedition 62
Crew: 6th
Rescue ships: Soyuz MS-15 , Soyuz MS-16
Space station: ISS
Start: February 6, 2020, 05:50 ( UTC )
Started by: Decoupling from Soyuz MS-13
The End: April 17, 2020, 01:53 (UTC)
Ended by: Decoupling from Soyuz MS-15
Duration: 70d 20h 3min
Team photo
v. l. To the right: Andrew Morgan, Chris Cassidy, Anatoli Iwanschin, Oleg Skripotschka (commandant), Jessica Meir and Iwan Wagner
v. l. To the right: Andrew Morgan, Chris Cassidy, Anatoli Iwanschin, Oleg Skripotschka (commandant), Jessica Meir and Iwan Wagner
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ISS Expedition 62 is the mission name for the 62nd long-term crew of the International Space Station (ISS). The mission began with the disengagement of the Soyuz MS-13 spacecraft from the ISS on February 6, 2020 and ended with the disengagement of Soyuz MS-15 on April 17, 2020.

team

Main crew

Since Expedition 20 in 2009, the core crew of the ISS has consisted of six space travelers, each participating in two successive expeditions. Three members of Expedition 62 were accordingly taken over from the previous Expedition 61 :

The rest of the crew was originally supposed to arrive on one of the two new US spaceships Crew Dragon and CST-100 Starliner . However, due to delays in the development and testing of these spaceships, the reinforcements did not arrive until a week before the end of Expedition 62 with Soyuz MS-16 :

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 respective feeder spaceships (see there) are considered substitutes. As a rule, these crews are then deployed two missions later.

Mission description

Expedition 62 lasted 70 days and 22 hours. During this time, two supply spaceships arrived at the ISS. There were no space missions.

On April 15, 2020, Oleg Skripotschka handed over command of the ISS to Chris Cassidy. The ISS expedition 63 began with the undocking of Soyuz MS-15 with Skripotschka, Morgan and Meir on April 17th .

Freight traffic

On February 18, 2020, the Cygnus NG-13 space freighter was docked to the space station. The ship was nicknamed "Robert H. Lawrence" in honor of the spaceman of the same name . NG-13 was the second copy of an enlarged Cygnus version that can carry around 250 kg more cargo and is launched with the reinforced "230+" variant of the Antares rocket. The freighter delivered a total of 3628 kg of research material, pieces of equipment and tools. He also had the experimental small satellites Red-Eye , DeMi and TES-10 on board, which were later to be launched into space from the ISS.

The 21st and last Dragon from SpaceX (mission designation: CRS-20) was docked as the second supply spaceship on March 9, 2020 . From the following flight CRS-21, this will be replaced by the new Cargo Dragon 2 . Inside the CRS-20 were 1977 kg of cargo, including two other small satellites. The experimental platform Bartolomeo , built in Germany, was transported outside of the spaceship . Bartolomeo was remotely installed on the outside of the Columbus module of the ISS in early April .

See also

Web links

Commons : ISS Expedition 62  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Expedition 62 - Mission Summary . NASA, 2020 (PDF).
  2. ↑ Touchdown! Expedition 62 Returns to Earth, Completes Station Mission . NASA, April 17, 2020 (English).
  3. ↑ a b ISS: Expedition 62 on spacefacts.de, accessed on April 18, 2020.
  4. ↑ Cygnus-PCM (enhanced) on Gunter's Space Page, accessed on April 18, 2020.