Pyotr Dubrov, born January 30, 1978 in Russia, went into space aboard Soyuz MS-18 in April 2021 to the International Space Station. He participated in a long duration missions from Expeditions 64-66. He returned to Earth aboard Soyuz MS-19 in March 2022 with fellow astronaut Mark Vande Hei. He spent over 355 days in space.
Soyuz MS-18, launched today, carried members of Expedition 65 to the International Space Station. Its crew consists of Commander Oleg Novitskiy, Pyotr Dubrov and Mark Vande Hei. They will also participate in Expeditions 64 and 66.
Scott Tingle, born July 19, 1965 in Attleboro, Massachusetts, went into space aboard Soyuz MS-07 in December 2017. He stayed on the International Space Station until June 2018 as part of Expeditions 54 and 55. He performed his first EVA in January 2018 with fellow astronaut Mark Vande Hei.
Mark Vande Hei, born November 10, 1966 just down the road here in Falls Church, Virginia, has spent over 168 days in space on the International Space Station. He was launched aboard Soyuz MS-06 as part of Expedition 53 in September 2017 and returned to Earth back in February.
Soyuz MS-06/Expedition 45 crew: Joe Acaba, Alexander Misurkin, Mark Vande Hei
Commander Alexander Misurkin, Joe Acaba and Mark Vande Hei will climb back into Soyuz MS-06, today about 2:15p and depart the International Space Station, landing about 9:30pm (EST) in Kazakhstan.
Soyuz MS-06 launched back on September 12, 2017 where they joined the second part of Expedition 53. In December, Misurkin became commander of the ISS for Expedition 54, when Soyuz MS-07 brought three more astronauts to ISS.
Misurkin, Acaba and Vande Hei have spent 168 days in space, orbiting Earth 2,688 times. They conducted many experiments including maintenance. During one EVA, they replaced a degraded latching end effector (LEE) on one end of the Canadarm2 robotic arm, which the crews have affectionately named "Mr. Roboto".
Joe Acaba helps Scott Tingle during a fit test in his spacesuit.
Expedition 54 flight engineers Mark Vande Hei and Scott Tingle, NASA astronauts, completed the first spacewalk of 2018 yesterday, January 24, conducting maintenance and making repairs to the International Space Station. It was the third EVA for Vande Hei and the first for Tingle. They replaced a Latching End Effector (LEE), which is important in grappling visiting vehicles, on the Canadarm2, the robotic arm attached to the station. The EVA lasted 7 hours and 24 minutes.
This was the 206th EVA conducted for ISS assembly and maintenance. Astronauts have spent a total of 53 days, 13 hours and 49 minutes (no seconds?) working outside the station.
The next spacewalk is scheduled for this coming Monday, January 29, for Vande Hei and Norishige Kanai of JAXA.
Randy Bresnik, Paolo Nespoli and Sergey Ryazanskiy landed a little after 3:30am EST today (2:30pm in Kazakhstan) completing their mission on the International Space Station. While on board, they performed many experiments, contributing to studies on microgravity's effect on the antibiotic resistance of E. coli, a baterial pathogen responsible for urinary tract infection, and growing larger versions of an important protein implicated in Parkison's Disease. This last example was developed by the Michael J. Fox Foundation with two other partners.
They were launched July 28, 2017 aboard Soyuz MS-05.
Expedition 54 will continue with 3 crew members, Commander Alexander Misurkin, Mark Vande Hei and Joe Acaba, until this Sunday when the next crew arrives: Anton Shkaplerov (Roscosmos), Scott Tingle (NASA) and Norishige Kanai (JAXA).
After a short 6-hour flight, Mark Vande Hei, Joe Acaba and Alexander Misurkin, crew of Soyuz MS-06 have arrived safely at and are on board the Internation Space Station!
Soyuz MS-06 crew: Joe Acaba, Alexander Misurkin, Mark Vande Hei
This afternoon about 5:17pm EDT, the next crew of the International Space Station will blast off aboard Soyuz MS-06 from Baikonur in Kazakhstan and dock with the ISS approximately 6 hours later. The crew consists of Lt. Col. Mark Vande Hei (Falls Church, VA; first flight), Joseph Acaba (first Puerto Rican astronaut; third flight) and cosmonaut/commander Alexander Misurkin (Yershichi, Smolensk Oblast, Russia; second flight)
They will join Randy Bresnik, Paolo Nespoli and Sergey Ryanzanski already on the ISS since July 28. The new crew will continue experiments in biology, physical science and Earth science.
What? No chemistry?
Just 10 days ago, Peggy Whitson, Jack Fisher and Fyodor Yurchikhin returned to Earth from the ISS, splatting down near Dzhezkagan in Kazakhstan.
