Expedition 29

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ISS Expedition 29
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Mission typeISS Expedition
Expedition
Space stationInternational Space Station
Began16 September 2011, 00:38 (2011-09-16UTC00:38Z) UTC
Ended21 November 2011, 23:00 (2011-11-22UTC00Z) UTC
Arrived aboardSoyuz TMA-02M
Soyuz TMA-22
Departed aboardSoyuz TMA-02M
Soyuz TMA-22
Crew
Crew size6
MembersExpedition 28/29:
Dan Burbank

Expedition 29 mission patch

(l-r) Furukawa, Fossum, Volkov, Ivanishin, Burbank and Shkaplerov 

Expedition 29 was the 29th long-duration expedition to the

Sergey Volkov, who had arrived at the ISS aboard Soyuz TMA-02M
in June 2011, began their Expedition 29 service at this time.

Soyuz TMA-22, which brought the remaining three Expedition 29 crew members to the ISS, was originally scheduled to launch in September 2011, but due to the launch failure of the Progress M-12M resupply vehicle on 24 August, its launch was delayed to 14 November.[2] It docked successfully with the ISS on 16 November 2011.[3]

Expedition 29 officially ended with the undocking of Soyuz TMA-02M on 21 November 2011. Furukawa, Fossum, and Volkov returned to Earth aboard the spacecraft, while astronauts

Anatoli Ivanishin remained on the ISS as part of Expedition 30.[4]

Crew

Position First part
(September 2011 to November 2011)
Second part
(November 2011)
Commander
Mike Fossum, NASA

Third and last spaceflight
Flight Engineer 1 Japan Satoshi Furukawa, JAXA
First spaceflight
Flight Engineer 2
RSA

Second spaceflight
Flight Engineer 3
RSA

First spaceflight
Flight Engineer 4
RSA

First spaceflight
Flight Engineer 5
Daniel Burbank, NASA

Third and last spaceflight
Source
NASA[5][6]

Mission highlights

Soyuz TMA-02M launch

The expedition's first three crew members launched aboard

EDT.[7]

Soyuz TMA-22 launch

Soyuz TMA-22 launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome at 04:14 UTC on 14 November 2011, carrying Anton Shkaplerov and Anatoli Ivanishin (Roscosmos), and Daniel Burbank (NASA). The spacecraft was placed into a 250-kilometre (160 mi) parking orbit,[8] and docked successfully with the ISS at 5:24 am GMT on 16 November 2011.[3]

Departure of Soyuz TMA-02M

Expedition 29 concluded with the departure of Soyuz TMA-02M from the ISS at 11:00 pm GMT on 21 November 2011, carrying astronauts Fossum, Volkov and Furukawa. The spacecraft soft-landed safely (albeit on its side) in Kazakhstan at 2:26 am GMT on 22 November.[9]

References

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

National Aeronautics and Space Administration
.

  1. ^ "Soyuz TMA-21 returns to Earth". NASA, 15 September 2011. Retrieved 2011-10-24.
  2. Xinhua
    , 24 October 2011.
  3. ^ a b "Russian, U.S. crew safely dock with space station". Reuters, 16 November 2011.
  4. ^ "Expedition 30". NASA. Retrieved 2011-11-23.
  5. ^ NASA HQ (2009). "NASA and its International Partners Assign Space Station Crews". NASA. Retrieved 7 October 2009.
  6. ^ JAXA announcement of Furukawa assignment, 17 December 2008 (in Japanese). Retrieved 2011-10-20.
  7. ^ "Expedition 28". NASA. Retrieved 7 June 2011.
  8. ^ "Soyuz TMA-22 manned transportation spacecraft launched towards ISS". SpaceDaily, 15 November 2011.
  9. ^ "3 Space Station Astronauts Land Safely in Kazakhstan". Space.com, 21 November 2011. Retrieved 2011-11-22.

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