Expedition 11
Rendezvous pitch manoeuvre . | ||
Mission type | ISS Expedition | |
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Mission duration | 176 days, 19 hours, 30 minutes (at ISS) 179 days, 23 minutes (launch to landing) | |
Orbits completed | 2,817 | |
Expedition | ||
Space station | International Space Station | |
Began | 17 April 2005, 02:19[1] | UTC|
Ended | 10 October 2005, 21:49[2] | UTC|
Arrived aboard | Soyuz TMA-6 | |
Departed aboard | Soyuz TMA-6 | |
Crew | ||
Crew size | 2 | |
Members | EVA duration | 4 hours and 58 minutes |
Expedition 11 mission patch |
Expedition 11 (2005) was the 11th expedition to the International Space Station,[3] using the Soyuz TMA-6, which stayed during the expedition for emergency evacuation.[4]
European Space Agency Italian Astronaut Roberto Vittori launched with Expedition 11 on the Soyuz TMA-6 spacecraft and returned 24 April 2005 with Expedition 10 on Soyuz TMA-5.[4]
Crew
Position | Astronaut | |
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Commander | RSA Sixth and last spaceflight | |
Flight Engineer 1 | John L. Phillips[4], NASA Second spaceflight |
Mission parameters
- Perigee: ~384 km
- Apogee: ~396 km
- Inclination: ~51.6°
- Orbital period: ~92 min
Mission objectives
On 28 July 2005 at 11:18 UTC, during mission
During the Expedition 11 mission, Russian Commander Sergei Krikalev exceeded the record for total time in space (formerly held by
On 7 September 2005 the unpiloted
On 3 October 2005 Soyuz TMA-7 docked bringing the Expedition 12 crew.[9]
Thomas Reiter (ESA) was scheduled to join the mission in October 2005 on the supply mission STS-121 to the ISS, but due to that mission's delay until 2006 he became a crew member of Expedition 13.[10]
Spacewalks
Two spacewalks were planned for Expedition 11[4] however only one took place. On 18 August 2005 19:02 UTC (3:02 p.m. EDT) the crew started a 4-hour, 58-minute spacewalk. They removed and brought inside the station a Russian Biorisk experiment container housing bacteria from the outside of Pirs; an MPAC (a micrometeoroid and orbital debris collector) and SEED (a materials exposure array) panel from the Zvezda Service Module; and the Matroska experiment, (radiation dosimeters in human-tissue-equivalent material). They installed a television camera on Zvezda, and checked a Korma contamination-exposure experiment tablet, and removed and replaced a materials exposure experiment container.[11]
References
This article incorporates public domain material from websites or documents of the
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- ^ a b Petty, John Ira (10 October 2005). "Eleventh Space Station Crew Back on Earth". NASA News. NASA. Archived from the original on 23 April 2021. Retrieved 23 April 2021.
- ^ Garcia, Mark (16 November 2018). "Expedition 11". International Space Station. NASA. Archived from the original on 23 April 2021. Retrieved 23 April 2021.
- ^ a b c d e "Expedition 11 Press Kit" (PDF). NASA. 4 April 2004. Archived (PDF) from the original on 23 April 2021. Retrieved 23 April 2021.
- ^ Petty, John Ira (26 July 2005). "STS-114 MCC Status Report #01". NASA News. NASA. Archived from the original on 23 April 2021. Retrieved 23 April 2021.
- ^ Petty, John Ira (6 August 2005). "STS-114 MCC Status Report #22". NASA News. NASA. Archived from the original on 23 April 2021. Retrieved 23 April 2021.
- ^ Petty, John Ira (18 August 2005). "International Space Station Status Report #05-40". NASA News. NASA. Archived from the original on 23 April 2021. Retrieved 23 April 2021.
- ^ Petty, John Ira (8 September 2005). "International Space Station Status Report #05-43". NASA News. NASA. Archived from the original on 23 April 2021. Retrieved 23 April 2021.
- ^ Petty, John Ira (3 October 2005). "International Space Station Status Report #05-48". NASA News. NASA. Archived from the original on 23 April 2021. Retrieved 23 April 2021.
- ^ Isakeit, Dieter (May 2007). "Astrolabs and Celcius: Jobs well done" (PDF). ESA Bulletin. No. 130. ESA. Editorial/Circulation Office. p. 32. Archived (PDF) from the original on 23 April 2021. Retrieved 23 April 2021.
- ^ Petty, John Ira (18 August 2005). "Station Crew Completes Spacewalk". NASA News. NASA. Archived from the original on 23 April 2021. Retrieved 23 April 2021.
External links
- spaceflight1.nasa.gov/station/ – NASA's ISS site
- nasa.gov – NASA's Expedition 11 site, with current event updates
- energia.ru/english – Energiya's official ISS-11 page
- esa.int – A 28 April 2005 ESA article discussing how Thomas Reiter was scheduled to be the first ESA astronaut to stay long-term on the station
- esa.int – A 25 April 2005 ESA article discussing ESA astronaut Roberto Vittori's (Italy) mission.
- Expedition 11 Photography