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Topic: ISS Expedition crewmember roles ?
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Alan
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posted 10-16-2004 10:26 AM
   
A 2-men ISS expedition crew has 2 roles; ISS commander and ISS flight-engineer. How is decided this will be a Russian or an American? ( e.g. Foala was US, Padalka was Russian). |
Apollo-Soyuz
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posted 10-16-2004 10:38 AM
When the expedition crews were 3 member crews, the flights where there was 2 russians and 1 american, the american was the expedition commander and the crew where was 2 americans and 1 russian, the russian was the expedition commander. Of course, after expedition 6 returned, expedition crews were reduced to 2 crewmembers to save consumables after the grounding of the space shuttle after the Columbia accident. They may have kept the rotation as if 3 man crews were flown.  ------------------
John Macco
Shady Side, MD [This message has been edited by Apollo-Soyuz (edited October 16, 2004).] |
Ben
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posted 10-16-2004 10:48 AM
Actually the answer is simple. They just rotate each mission. Exp 1 was American, Exp 2 Russian, 3 American...9 Russian, 10 American. |
Tom
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posted 10-16-2004 04:48 PM
Not always, John.
EXP-5 had 2 Russians, 1 American with Russian CDR.
EXP-6 had 2 Americans, 1 Russian with American CDR.
Tom |
Apollo-Soyuz
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posted 10-16-2004 05:43 PM
Tom- Thanks for the correction. ------------------
John Macco
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kosmonavtka
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posted 10-18-2004 08:47 PM
A Russian is always Soyuz commander. |
eurospace
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posted 10-19-2004 04:22 PM
quote:
Originally posted by kosmonavtka:
A Russian is always Soyuz commander.
And the shuttle is always commanded by an American astronaut ;-))
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Jürgen P Esders
Berlin, Germany
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