Resident Crews of the International Space Station (ISS)

ISS: Expedition 70

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Crew, launch- and landing data

No. Nation Surname Given names Position Spacecraft
(launch)
Launch
date
Launch
time
Spacecraft
(landing)
Landing
date
Landing
time
Mission
duration
Orbits
1 Denmark  Mogensen  Andreas Enevold  ISS-CDR  SpaceX Crew-7  26.08.2023  07:27:27 UTC  (SpaceX Crew-7)  (??.03.2024)  UTC

 
2  Moghbeli  Jasmin  Flight Engineer-4  SpaceX Crew-7  26.08.2023  07:27:27 UTC  (SpaceX Crew-7)  (??.03.2024)  UTC

 
3 Japan  Furukawa  Satoshi  Flight Engineer-5  SpaceX Crew-7  26.08.2023  07:27:27 UTC  (SpaceX Crew-7)  (??.03.2024)  UTC

 
4  Borisov  Konstantin Sergeyevich  Flight Engineer-6  SpaceX Crew-7  26.08.2023  07:27:27 UTC  (SpaceX Crew-7)  (??.03.2024)  UTC

 
5  Kononenko  Oleg Dmitriyevich  Flight Engineer-1  Soyuz MS-24  15.09.2023  15:44:35.417 UTC  (Soyuz MS-25)  (??.09.2024)  UTC

 
6  Chub  Nikolai Aleksandrovich  Flight Engineer-2  Soyuz MS-24  15.09.2023  15:44:35.417 UTC  (Soyuz MS-25)  (??.09.2024)  UTC

 
7  O'Hara  Loral Ashley  Flight Engineer-3  Soyuz MS-24  15.09.2023  15:44:35.417 UTC  (Soyuz MS-24)  (??.03.2024)  UTC

 
8  Dominick  Matthew Stuart  Flight Engineer  (SpaceX Crew-8)  (??.02.2024)  UTC  (SpaceX Crew-8)  (??.08.2024)  UTC    
9  Barratt  Michael Reed  Flight Engineer  (SpaceX Crew-8)  (??.02.2024)  UTC  (SpaceX Crew-8)  (??.08.2024)  UTC    
10  Epps  Jeanette Jo  Flight Engineer  (SpaceX Crew-8)  (??.02.2024)  UTC  (SpaceX Crew-8)  (??.08.2024)  UTC    
11  Grebyonkin  Aleksandr Sergeyevich  Flight Engineer  (SpaceX Crew-8)  (??.02.2024)  UTC  (SpaceX Crew-8)  (??.08.2024)  UTC    
12  Dyson  Tracy Caldwell  Flight Engineer  (Soyuz MS-25)  (13.03.2024)  UTC  (Soyuz MS-25)  (??.09.2024)  UTC    
13  Ovchinin  Aleksei Nikolaevich  Flight Engineer  (Soyuz MS-26)  (11.09.2024)  UTC  (Soyuz MS-26)  (??.03.2025)  UTC    
14  Vagner  Ivan Viktorovich  Flight Engineer  (Soyuz MS-26)  (11.09.2024)  UTC  (Soyuz MS-26)  (??.03.2025)  UTC    
15  Gorbunov  Aleksandr Vladimirovich  Flight Engineer  (Soyuz MS-26)  (11.09.2024)  UTC  (Soyuz MS-26)  (??.03.2025)  UTC    

Where is the ISS now?

Expedition Report

ISS Expedition 70 began with the undocking of Russian spacecraft Soyuz MS-23 on September 27, 2023 at 07:54:21 UTC.
The landing crew consisted of Sergei Prokopyev, Dmitri Petelin and Frank Rubio. Three-and-a-half-hours later the crew landed safely in Kazakhstan. So, the new Expedition 70 consisted of ISS Commander Andreas Mogensen, Jasmin Moghbeli, Satoshi Furukawa, Konstantin Borisov, Oleg Kononenko, Nikolai Chub and Loral O'Hara.

The first Russian spacewalk in Expedition 70 was performed by Oleg Kononenko and Nikolai Chub on October 25, 2023 (7h 41m). In addition to the previously planned tasks, including installing a radar on the Nauka module to observe the Earth's surface and launching the student nanosatellite Parus-MGTU to test the technology for deploying a solar sail. In addition the cosmonauts had to conduct inspections and photograph leak sites at an additional radiant heat exchanger in the Nauka module so that specialists on Earth can find out the reasons for the occurrence of the occurrence.

On November 01, 2023 Jasmin Moghbeli and Loral O'Hara performed the second spacewalk (6h 42m). They replaced one of twelve Trundle Bearing Assemblies on the port truss Solar Alpha Rotary Joint (SARJ). The bearings enable the station's solar arrays to rotate properly to track the sun as the station orbits the Earth.

SpaceX's 29th Commercial Resupply Services mission launched on November 10, 2023 at 01:28:14 UTC on a Falcon 9 rocket from Launch Complex 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Dragon SpX-29 or CRS-29 carried more than 6,500 pounds (2,948 kg) research, logistics and hardware for the Expeditions 70 and 71.
SpaceX's Dragon spacecraft will deliver new science investigations, food, supplies, and equipment to the international crew, including NASA's AWE (Atmospheric Waves Experiment), which studies atmospheric gravity waves to understand the flow of energy through Earth's upper atmosphere and space.
The spacecraft also delivered NASA's ILLUMA-T (Integrated Laser Communications Relay Demonstration Low-Earth-Orbit User Modem and Amplifier Terminal), which aims to test high data rate laser communications from the space station to Earth via the agency's LCRD (Laser Communications Relay Demonstration). Together, ILLUMA-T and LCRD will complete NASA's first two-way, end-to-end laser communications relay system.
Arrival at the station was on November 11, 2023 at 10:07 UTC. The SpaceX Dragon spacecraft docked autonomously to the station's zenith port of the Harmony module. The spacecraft is expected to spend about a month attached to the orbiting outpost before it returns to Earth with research and return cargo, splashing down off the coast of Florida.

Progress MS-23 filled with 'junk' and used-up equipment undocked from the International Space Station on November 29, 2023 at 07:55:25 UTC. The unmanned transporter re-entered the atmosphere a few hours later and burned up over the South Pacific.

EVA data

  Name Start End Duration Mission Airlock Suit
EVA Kononenko, Oleg 25.10.2023, 17:49 UTC 26.10.2023, 01:30 UTC 7h 41m ISS-70 ISS - Poisk Orlan-MKS No. 5
EVA Chub, Nikolai 25.10.2023, 17:49 UTC 26.10.2023, 01:30 UTC 7h 41m ISS-70 ISS - Poisk Orlan-MKS No. 4
 
EVA Moghbeli, Jasmin 01.11.2023, 12:05 UTC 01.11.2023, 18:47 UTC 6h 42m ISS-70 ISS - Quest EMU No. 3003
EVA O'Hara, Loral 01.11.2023, 12:05 UTC 01.11.2023, 18:47 UTC 6h 42m ISS-70 ISS - Quest EMU No. 3004
 

Photos

Tenerife EVA preparations
Soyuz MS-24 EVA Nikolai Chub on October 25, 2023
EVA Oleg Kononenko on October 25, 2023 Halloween onboard ISS
EVA Loral O'Hara on November 01, 2023 Nauka

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Last update on November 29, 2023.

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