Mission type | ISS Expedition |
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Mission duration | 76 days, 16 hours, 1 minute |
Expedition | |
Space station | International Space Station |
Began | 18 March 2010, 08:03 | UTC
Ended | 2 June 2010, 00:04 | UTC
Arrived aboard |
Soyuz TMA-17 Soyuz TMA-18 |
Departed aboard |
Soyuz TMA-17 Soyuz TMA-18 |
Crew | |
Crew size | 6 |
Members | Expedition 22/23: Oleg Kotov Soichi Noguchi Timothy Creamer Expedition 23/24: Aleksandr Skvortsov Mikhail Korniyenko Tracy Caldwell Dyson |
Expedition 23 mission patch (l-r) Korniyenko, Caldwell Dyson, Skvortsov, Kotov, Creamer and Noguchi |
Expedition 23 ( Russian: МКС-23) was the 23rd long-duration mission to the International Space Station (ISS). Expedition 23 began with the Soyuz TMA-16 undocking on 18 March 2010. Shortly thereafter cosmonauts Aleksandr Skvortsov and Mikhail Korniyenko and astronaut Tracy Caldwell Dyson arrived at the Space Station on Soyuz TMA-18 on 4 April 2010. [1] The Soyuz spacecraft lifted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome at 00:04 EST on 2 April 2010. [2]
Position | First part (March 2010 to April 2010) |
Second part (April 2010 to June 2010) |
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Commander |
Oleg Kotov,
RSA Second spaceflight | |
Flight Engineer 1 |
Soichi Noguchi,
JAXA Second spaceflight | |
Flight Engineer 2 |
Timothy Creamer,
NASA Only spaceflight | |
Flight Engineer 3 |
Aleksandr Skvortsov,
RSA First spaceflight | |
Flight Engineer 4 |
Mikhail Korniyenko,
RSA First spaceflight | |
Flight Engineer 5 |
Tracy Caldwell Dyson,
NASA Second spaceflight |
Three Russian cosmonauts, two American and one Japanese astronauts made up the Expedition 23 crew. It was the first ISS crew to include three Russians at once. [4] The Expedition 23 crew continued outfitting the newest modules of the nearly completed space station. The crew welcomed the shuttle flight STS-131 in April 2010. The Expedition 23 crew also saw the arrival of the Rasvet Russian docking module (MRM1) aboard Space Shuttle Atlantis on STS-132, which launched on 14 May 2010.
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