Expedition 19

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ISS Expedition 19
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Mission typeISS Expedition
Mission duration61 days, 23 hours, 29 minutes
Expedition
Space stationInternational Space Station
Began28 March 2009, 13:05 (2009-03-28UTC13:05Z) UTC
Ended29 May 2009, 12:34 (2009-05-29UTC12:35Z) UTC
Arrived aboardSoyuz TMA-14
Wakata: STS-119
Space Shuttle Discovery
Departed aboardSoyuz TMA-14
Wakata: STS-127
Space Shuttle Endeavour
Crew
Crew size3
Members
Michael Barratt
Koichi Wakata
*
* – transferred from Expedition 18
All members transferred to Expedition 20

Expedition 19 mission patch

(Left to right) Michael Barratt, Gennady Padalka, Koichi Wakata 

Expedition 19 was the 19th long-duration flight to the

UTC aboard the Soyuz TMA-14 spacecraft.[1] Expedition 19 was the final three crew member expedition, before the crew size increased to six crew members with Expedition 20
.

The expedition was commanded by Russian Air Force Colonel Gennady Padalka. On 31 March 2009, Padalka raised an issue concerning shared use of facilities such as exercise equipment and toilet facilities. Padalka claims that initial approval to use exercise equipment owned by the U.S. government was subsequently turned down. Russian and American members of the crew have now been informed to use only their own toilets and not to share rations. The result was a general lowering of morale on the station.[2]

Crew

Position[3] Crew Member
Commander
RSA

Third spaceflight
Flight Engineer 1
Michael Barratt, NASA

First spaceflight
Flight Engineer 2 Japan Koichi Wakata, JAXA
Third Spaceflight

Backup crew

References

Public Domain This article incorporates public domain material from websites or documents of the

National Aeronautics and Space Administration
.

  1. ^ NASA (2009) NASA-Expedition 19 NASA. Retrieved 26 March 2009
  2. ^ 'Toilet row' lowers space morale. BBC News. 31 March 2009
  3. ^ NASA (2008). "NASA Assigns Crews for STS-127 and Expedition 19 Missions". NASA. Archived from the original on 25 February 2020. Retrieved 11 February 2008.

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