Mission type | ISS Expedition |
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Expedition | |
Space station | International Space Station |
Began | 16 September 2012, 23:09[1] | UTC
Ended | 18 November 2012[1] |
Arrived aboard |
Soyuz TMA-05M Soyuz TMA-06M |
Departed aboard |
Soyuz TMA-05M Soyuz TMA-06M |
Crew | |
Crew size | 6 |
Members | Expedition 32/33: Sunita Williams Yuri Malenchenko Akihiko Hoshide Expedition 33/34: Kevin A. Ford Oleg Novitskiy Evgeny Tarelkin |
Expedition 33 mission patch (l-r) Williams, Malenchenko, Hoshide, Tarelkin, Novitskiy and Ford |
Expedition 33 was the 33rd long-duration expedition to the International Space Station (ISS). It began on 16 September 2012 with the departure from the ISS of the Soyuz TMA-04M spacecraft, which returned the Expedition 32 crew to Earth. [1]
Position | First Part (September–October 2012) |
Second Part (October–November 2012) |
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Commander |
Sunita Williams,
NASA Second spaceflight | |
Flight Engineer 1 |
Yuri Malenchenko,
RSA Fifth spaceflight | |
Flight Engineer 2 |
Akihiko Hoshide,
JAXA Second spaceflight | |
Flight Engineer 3 |
Kevin A. Ford,
NASA Second and last spaceflight | |
Flight Engineer 4 |
Oleg Novitskiy,
RSA First spaceflight | |
Flight Engineer 5 |
Evgeny Tarelkin,
RSA Only spaceflight |
The crew successfully experimented with the Delay-tolerant networking protocol and managed to control a Lego robot on earth from space. [5]