Expedition 33 was the 33rd long-duration expedition to the International Space Station (ISS). It began on 16 September 2012 with the departure from the ISS of the Soyuz TMA-04M spacecraft, which returned the Expedition 32 crew to Earth.[1]
Crew
Position | First Part (September–October 2012) |
Second Part (October–November 2012) |
---|---|---|
Commander | Sunita Williams, NASA Second spaceflight | |
Flight Engineer 1 | Yuri Malenchenko, RSA Fifth spaceflight | |
Flight Engineer 2 | Akihiko Hoshide, JAXA Second spaceflight | |
Flight Engineer 3 | Kevin A. Ford, NASA Second and last spaceflight | |
Flight Engineer 4 | Oleg Novitskiy, RSA First spaceflight | |
Flight Engineer 5 | Evgeny Tarelkin, RSA Only spaceflight |
Notable experiments
The crew successfully experimented with the Delay-tolerant networking protocol and managed to control a Lego robot on Earth from space.[5]
References
- ^ a b c "Expedition 33". National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Retrieved 16 September 2012.
- ^ NASA HQ (2010). "NASA And Partners Assign Crews For Upcoming Space Station Missions". NASA. Retrieved 8 July 2010.
- ^ "Astronaut Bio: Sunita Williams". NASA. Retrieved 19 February 2011.
- ^ "Selection of Astronaut Akihiko Hoshide as a Member of the ISS Expedition Crew". JAXA. Retrieved 19 February 2011.
- ^ "NASA, ESA Use Experimental Interplanetary Internet to Test Robot from International Space Station". 7 April 2015.
External links
- NASA's Space Station Expeditions page
- NASA's Consolidated Launch Schedule
- [1] Archived 21 December 2014 at the Wayback Machine