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Forum:	Space Shuttles - Space Station
Topic:	[ISS] Year-long expedition on the space station

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Your Reply: HTML is ON UBB Code is ON Smilies Legend	[QUOTE]Originally posted by Robert Pearlman: [B]NASA and Roscosmos are planning a set of briefings about this mission during the first week of December, including participation by Scott Kelly and Mikhail Kornienko. The details should become clear then, but in the meantime... [list][]The space station will retain a six-person crew, but only two (Kelly and Kornienko) will stay for the full year. []To expand upon and clarify the [i]Spaceflight 101[/i] summary, here is Bill Harwood's reporting from last month, citing sources close to NASA: <BLOCKQUOTE>[i]...the astronaut and cosmonaut who will stay up for a year likely will launch in March 2015 aboard the Soyuz TMA-16M spacecraft, sources said, accompanied by a Russian spacecraft commander who would stay aboard the lab for a normal six-month tour. Under that scenario, the next Soyuz in the rotation, TMA-17M, would launch with a normal three-person station crew the following May. The Soyuz after that, TMA-18M, would take off that Fall with a Russian commander and two paying customers, sources said, either tourists, researchers representing nations not normally in the rotation or a combination of the two. The spaceflight participants would spend about two weeks aboard the lab complex and return to Earth aboard the Soyuz TMA-16M spacecraft with the same commander that ferried the long-duration crew to orbit the previous March. The long-duration crew members would return to Earth in March 2016 aboard the Soyuz TMA-18M spacecraft with the commander who ferried the commercial fliers to orbit.[/i]</BLOCKQUOTE>[/list] Other scenarios are possible, but they maintain a compliment of six resident crew members and possibly two visiting crew members: [list][]March 2015: Soyuz TMA-16M delivers Kelly, Kornienko and cosmonaut (rumored to be Yuri Lonchakov) to join Sergei Zalyotin, Terry Virts and Samantha Cristoforetti already aboard the space station. []May 2015: Zalyotin, Cristoforetti and Virts depart the space station on Soyuz TMA-15M. Soyuz TMA-17M launches with three new crew members for the ISS, returning the occupancy to six. []Fall 2015: Soyuz TMA-18M launches with a Russian cosmonaut and two spaceflight participants. After two weeks, Lonchakov (or whoever) returns to Earth with spaceflight participants on Soyuz TMA-16M. []March 2016: Kelly, Kornienko and the Russian cosmonaut launched with the spaceflight participants return to Earth on Soyuz TMA-18M.[/list][/B][/QUOTE]
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