Resident Crews of the International Space Station (ISS)

ISS: Expedition 21

ISS Project Patch
Patch ISS-21 Patch ISS-21

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Crew ISS-21 Crew ISS-21

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Crew ISS-21 Crew ISS-21

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Crew, launch- and landing data

No.: 1 2 3 4 5 6
Nation: Belgium Russian Federation Canada USA USA Russian Federation
Surname:  De Winne  Romanenko  Thirsk  Stott  Williams  Surayev
Given names:  Frank  Roman Yuriyevich  Robert Brent  Nicole Marie Passonno  Jeffrey Nels  Maksim Viktorovich
Job:  ISS-CDR  Flight Engineer  Flight Engineer  Flight Engineer  Flight Engineer  Flight Engineer
Spacecraft (Launch):  Soyuz TMA-15  Soyuz TMA-15  Soyuz TMA-15  STS-128  Soyuz TMA-16  Soyuz TMA-16
Launch date:  27.05.2009  27.05.2009  27.05.2009  29.08.2009  30.09.2009  30.09.2009
Launchtime:  10:34 UT  10:34 UT  10:34 UT  03:59 UT  07:14 UT  07:14 UT
Spacecraft (Landing):  Soyuz TMA-15  Soyuz TMA-15  Soyuz TMA-15  STS-129  Soyuz TMA-16  Soyuz TMA-16
Landingdate:  01.12.2009  01.12.2009  01.12.2009  27.11.2009  18.03.2010  18.03.2010
Landingtime:  07:16 UT  07:16 UT  07:16 UT  14:44 UT  11: 24 UT  11:24 UT
Mission duration:  187d 20h 42m  187d 20h 42m  187d 20h 42m  90d 10h 45m  169d 04h 10m  169d 04h 10m
Orbits:  2961  2961  2961  1423  2669  2669

unofficial Backup Crew

No.: 1 2 3 4 5 6
Nation: The Netherlands Russian Federation Canada USA USA Russian Federation
Surname:  Kuipers  Kondratiyev  Hadfield  Coleman  Walker  Skvortsov
Given names:  André  Dmitri Yuriyevich  Chris Austin  Catherine Grace "Cady"  Shannon Baker  Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Jr.
Job:  ISS-CDR  Flight Engineer  Flight Engineer  Flight Engineer  Flight Engineer  Flight Engineer

Crew ISS-21 (backup) Crew ISS-21 (Double)

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Where is the ISS now?

Expedition Report

Launch from Baikonur (.Williams and Surayev with Soyuz TMA-16). Stott is onboard the ISS since 31.08.2008 (arrival with STS-128). De Winne, Romanenko and Thirsk arrived with Soyuz TMA-15 on 29.05.2009.

The new Russian Mini-Research Module 2 (MRM2), also known as Poisk, docked to the space-facing port of the Zvezda service module of the International Space Station on November 12, 2009.

Photos

Soyuz TMA-16 arrives at the ISS Arrival of Progress
HTV reentry Arrival of Poisk
traditional in-flight photo ISS-21

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Last update on March 18, 2010.

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