Resident Crews of the International Space Station (ISS)

ISS: Expedition 18


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Crew, launch- and landing data

No.:	1	2	3	4	5
Nation:
Surname:	Fincke	Lonchakov	Chamitoff	Magnus	Wakata
Given names:	Edward Michael "Mike"	Yuri Valentinovich	Gregory Errol	Sandra Hall	Koichi
Position:	ISS-CDR	Flight Engineer	Flight Engineer	Flight Engineer	Flight Engineer
Spacecraft (Launch):	Soyuz TMA-13	Soyuz TMA-13	STS-124	STS-126	STS-119
Launch date:	12.10.2008	12.10.2008	31.05.2008	15.11.2008	15.03.2009
Launchtime:	07:01 UTC	07:01 UTC	21:02 UTC	00:55 UTC	23:43 UTC
Spacecraft (Landing):	Soyuz TMA-13	Soyuz TMA-13	STS-126	STS-119	STS-127
Landingdate:	08.04.2009	08.04.2009	30.11.2008	28.03.2009	31.07.2009
Landingtime:	07:16 UTC	07:16 UTC	21:25 UTC	19:13 UTC	14:48 UTC
Mission duration:	178d 00h 15m	178d 00h 15m	183d 00h 23m	133d 18h 18m	137d 15h 05m
Orbits:	2803	2803	2879	2105	2166

Backup Crew

No.:	1	2	3	4	5
Nation:
Surname:	Barratt	Padalka	Kopra	Stott	Noguchi
Given names:	Michael Reed	Gennadi Ivanovich	Timothy Lennart	Nicole Marie Passonno	Soichi
Position:	ISS-CDR	Flight Engineer	Flight Engineer	Flight Engineer	Flight Engineer


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Expedition Report

Launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome (Fincke and Lonchakov). Magnus arrived on 16.11.2008 with STS-126. She was replaced by Wakata on 17.03.2009 (arrival with STS-119).

First EVA by Fincke and Lonchakov on 23.12.2008 (5h 38m) to deploy and retrieve several Russian experiments on the station's exterior and installing a device to measure electromagnetic forces imparted on station hardware as the complex moves through low Earth orbit.

Second EVA by Fincke and Lonchakov on 10.03.2009 (4h 49m) to install EXPOSE-R, a European experiment that exposes seeds and spores to the space environment.