Long-duration mission to the ISS
Expedition 29
was the 29th long-duration expedition to the
International Space Station
(ISS). The expedition formally began on 16 September 2011, with the departure from the ISS of the
Soyuz TMA-21
spacecraft.
[1]
Astronauts
Satoshi Furukawa
,
Michael Fossum
and
Sergey Volkov
, who had arrived at the ISS aboard
Soyuz TMA-02M
in June 2011, began their Expedition 29 service at this time.
Soyuz TMA-22
, which brought the remaining three Expedition 29 crew members to the ISS, was originally scheduled to launch in September 2011, but due to the
launch failure of the Progress M-12M resupply vehicle
on 24 August, its launch was delayed to 14 November.
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It docked successfully with the ISS on 16 November 2011.
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Expedition 29 officially ended with the undocking of Soyuz TMA-02M on 21 November 2011. Furukawa, Fossum, and Volkov returned to Earth aboard the spacecraft, while astronauts
Dan Burbank
,
Anton Shkaplerov
, and
Anatoli Ivanishin
remained on the ISS as part of
Expedition 30
.
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Crew
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View of Earth taken 16 September 2011 during ISS Expedition 29 from a height of 211 nautical miles (391 km)
NASA
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Mission highlights
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Soyuz TMA-02M launch
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The expedition's first three crew members launched aboard
Soyuz TMA-02M
from
Baikonur Cosmodrome
,
Kazakhstan
, at 21:18
UTC
on 7 June 2011. The crew consisted of Sergey Volkov (
Roscosmos
), Satoshi Furukawa (
JAXA
), and Michael Fossum (
NASA
). Their backups were
Oleg Kononenko
(Roscosmos),
Donald Pettit
(NASA), and
Andre Kuipers
(ESA). Soyuz TMA-02M docked successfully to the ISS on 9 June 2011, at 5:19 pm
EDT
.
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Soyuz TMA-22 launch
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Soyuz TMA-22
launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome at 04:14 UTC on 14 November 2011, carrying Anton Shkaplerov and Anatoli Ivanishin (Roscosmos), and Daniel Burbank (NASA). The spacecraft was placed into a 250-kilometre (160 mi) parking orbit,
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and docked successfully with the ISS at 5:24 am GMT on 16 November 2011.
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Departure of Soyuz TMA-02M
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Expedition 29 concluded with the departure of Soyuz TMA-02M from the ISS at 11:00 pm
GMT
on 21 November 2011, carrying astronauts Fossum, Volkov and Furukawa. The spacecraft soft-landed safely (albeit on its side) in
Kazakhstan
at 2:26 am GMT on 22 November.
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References
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This article incorporates
public domain material
from websites or documents of the
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
.
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