Expedition 18

ISS Expedition 18 mission is the designation for the 18 long-term crew of the International Space Station ( ISS). The crew lived and worked from October 2008 to April 2009 on board the ISS.

Team

  • Edward Fincke ( second space flight), Commander (NASA / USA)
  • Yuri Valentinovich Lonchakov ( third space flight), flight engineer ( Roscosmos / Russia)
  • To November 2008: Gregory Chamitoff (1st space flight), flight engineer (NASA / USA) ( STS -124 - STS -126 )
  • From November 2008 to March 2009: Sandra Magnus ( second space flight ), aircraft engineer (NASA / USA) ( STS -126 - STS -119 )
  • From March 2009 to July 2009: Koichi Wakata ( third space flight), flight engineer ( JAXA / Japan) ( STS -119 - STS -127 )

Backup crew

  • Michael R. Barratt, Commander (NASA / USA) ( for Fincke)
  • Gennady Ivanovich Padalka, Flight Engineer ( Roscosmos / Russia) ( for Lonchakov )
  • Timothy Creamer, flight engineer (NASA / USA) ( for Chamitoff )
  • Nicole Stott, board engineer (NASA / USA) ( Magnus )
  • Soichi Noguchi, flight engineer ( JAXA / Japan) ( for Wakata )

Mission History

Gregory Chamitoff already traveled 31 May 2008 with STS -124 to the ISS and was part of the ISS Expedition 17 The two astronauts Edward Michael Fincke and Yuri Lonchakov launched on 12 October 2008, together with the space tourists Richard Garriott aboard Soyuz TMA -13 to the space station and thus completed the crew for expedition 18

Oleg Dmitrievich Kononenko The return of Sergei Alexandrovich Volkov and (both Expedition 17) and Richard Garriott took place on 24 October 2008 aboard Soyuz TMA- 12th

The astronaut Sandra Magnus met on November 16, along with STS -126 on the station. It replaced the Chamitoff returned on board the space shuttle to Earth.

On 22 December 2008, the first extra - vehicular activity (EVA ) of the mission took place. Fincke and Lonchakov away several experiments of the exterior of the station and replaced them with others. The insert had an overall length of about 5 1/2 hours.

The second EVA was performed on 10 March 2009. There was tape from the Pirs airlock to ensure a smooth flow of future docking maneuvers. Furthermore, the experiment Expose -R was installed to investigate the effects of space on organisms and biological materials. Finally, the state of the space station was photographically documented. The outdoor application took almost five hours.

On March 12, a station, the approximate debris part was discovered too late to perform an evasive maneuver. The crew then prepared before the evacuation of the ISS. At 16:35 UTC, they went into the Soyuz to leave in an emergency station within the shortest possible time. However, a collision did not take place and the astronauts were able to resume at 16:45 UTC resume their work.

Sandra Magnus returned after four months in orbit on 26 March 2009 with STS -119 back to Earth. It was replaced by Koichi Wakata, who remained until June at the station and therefore also a member of the ISS Expedition 19 and ISS Expedition 20 was.

28 March 2009 docked Soyuz TMA -14 to the space station and brought the other two astronauts for Expedition 19, Gennadi Ivanovich Padalka and Michael Barratt, to the station. Also on board was the American space tourist Charles Simonyi. He returned on April 8 back together with Fincke and Lonchakov aboard Soyuz TMA -13 to the earth, their decoupling at the same time meant the official end of ISS Expedition 18.

Soyuz TMA-13 STS-124 STS-126 STS-119 STS-127 Gennady Padalka Yury Lonchakov Oleg Kononenko Sergey Alexandrovich Volkov Soyuz TMA-12 Pirs (ISS module) Soyuz TMA-14 Michael Barratt (astronaut) List of human spaceflights to the International Space Station STS-88 STS-96 STS-101 STS-106 STS-92 Soyuz TM-31 STS-97 STS-98 STS-102 STS-100 Soyuz TM-32 STS-104 STS-105 Soyuz TM-33 STS-108 STS-110 Soyuz TM-34 STS-111 STS-112 Soyuz TMA-1 STS-113 Soyuz TMA-2 Soyuz TMA-3 Soyuz TMA-4 Soyuz TMA-5 Soyuz TMA-6 STS-114 Soyuz TMA-7 Soyuz TMA-8 STS-121 STS-115 Soyuz TMA-9 STS-116 Soyuz TMA-10 STS-117 STS-118 Soyuz TMA-11 STS-120 STS-122 STS-123 Soyuz TMA-15 STS-128 Soyuz TMA-16 STS-129 Soyuz TMA-17 STS-130 Soyuz TMA-18 STS-131 STS-132 Soyuz TMA-19 Soyuz TMA-01M Soyuz TMA-20 STS-133 Soyuz TMA-21 STS-134 Soyuz TMA-02M STS-135 Soyuz TMA-22 Soyuz TMA-03M Soyuz TMA-04M Soyuz TMA-05M Soyuz TMA-06M Soyuz TMA-07M Soyuz TMA-08M Soyuz TMA-09M Soyuz TMA-10M Soyuz TMA-11M Soyuz TMA-12M Soyuz TMA-13M Soyuz TMA-14M Soyuz TMA-15M Soyuz TMA-16M Soyuz TMA-17M Soyuz TMA-18M Soyuz TMA-19M List of International Space Station expeditions Expedition 27 Expedition 28 Expedition 29 Expedition 30 Expedition 31 Expedition 32 Expedition 33 Expedition 34 Expedition 35 Expedition 36 Expedition 37 Expedition 38 Expedition 39 Expedition 40 Expedition 41 Expedition 42 Expedition 43 Expedition 44
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