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Topic: ISS crew schedule to add mini-missions
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Robert Pearlman
Editor Posts: 42988
From: Houston, TX
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 10-07-2006 11:46 AM
   
According to Reuters reporter Irene Klotz, writing for BBC News: quote:
NASA is considering flying astronauts from Europe and other International Space Station (ISS) partner countries on mini-expeditions aboard the orbital outpost as early as next year.Under the proposal, a second European crewmember would be added to the planned October 2007 shuttle flight slated to deliver the Columbus research laboratory to the platform.
This coincides with a schedule I received back in August:Expedition 15
April 2007-September 2007
CDR Oleg Kotov
FE1 Fyodor Yurchikhin
FE2 Suni Williams (up on STS-116) until June 2007
FE2 Clay Anderson (up on STS-118) until September 2007
FE2 Dan Tani (up on STS-120) until October 2007 Expedition 16
September 2007-March 2008
CDR Yuri Malenchenko
FE1 Peggy Whitson
FE2 Dan Tani (up on STS-120) until October 2007
FE2 Leopold Eyharts (up on STS-122) until December 2007
FE2 Bob Thirsk (up on STS-123) until March 2008
FE2 Koichi Wakata (up on STS-124) until April 2008 Expedition 17
March 2008-September 2008
CDR Sergei Volkov
FE1 Peggy Whitson (stays on ISS for 9 months and returns on STS-119)
FE2 Salizhan Sharipov
FE2 Sandy Magnus (up on STS-119) until September 2008
FE2 Greg Chamitoff (up on STS-126) until November 2008 [Edited by Robert Pearlman (October 07, 2006).] |
Tonyq
Member Posts: 199
From: UK
Registered: Jul 2004
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posted 10-08-2006 05:58 AM
Shouldn't Whitson be the Commander of Expedition 16 ?Otherwise we seem to have three consecutive missions under Russian command which is not he usual alternating pattern, which I understood had been agreed ?? Tony |
Rex Hall
Member Posts: 170
From: London, England
Registered: Oct 2001
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posted 10-08-2006 07:23 AM
Tony
I think the Cdr relates to the Soyuz craft not the ISS station.
Rex |
issman1
Member Posts: 1042
From: UK
Registered: Apr 2005
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posted 10-09-2006 07:00 AM
I think Rex is correct. Yurchikhin is listed elsewhere as the Expedition 15 commander.
Peggy looks like becoming the first female ISS commander, on Expedition 16, although it will be a demotion of sorts for Malenchenko who commanded past Mir and ISS increments.
As a footnote, if Expedition 15 remains unchanged it will be the first Russian ISS crew with no prior long-duration or EVA experience. That will be an interesting.
As for the Mini-missions, this is an excellent plan. | |
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