Expedition 33

Expedition 33 was the 33rd long-duration expedition to the International Space Station (ISS). It began on 16 September 2012 with the departure from the ISS of the Soyuz TMA-04M spacecraft, which returned the Expedition 32 crew to Earth.[1]

ISS Expedition 33
Mission typeISS Expedition
Expedition
Space StationInternational Space Station
Began16 September 2012, 23:09 (2012-09-16UTC23:09Z) UTC[1]
Ended18 November 2012 (2012-11-19)[1]
Arrived aboardSoyuz TMA-05M
Soyuz TMA-06M
Departed aboardSoyuz TMA-05M
Soyuz TMA-06M
Crew
Crew size6
MembersExpedition 32/33:
Sunita Williams
Yuri Malenchenko
Akihiko Hoshide

Expedition 33/34:
Kevin A. Ford
Oleg Novitskiy
Evgeny Tarelkin

(l-r) Williams, Malenchenko, Hoshide, Tarelkin, Novitskiy and Ford
 

Crew
Position First Part
(September-October 2012)		 Second Part
(October-November 2012)
Commander Sunita Williams, NASA
Second spaceflight
Flight Engineer 1 Yuri Malenchenko, RSA
Fifth spaceflight
Flight Engineer 2 Akihiko Hoshide, JAXA
Second spaceflight
Flight Engineer 3 Kevin A. Ford, NASA
Second and last spaceflight
Flight Engineer 4 Oleg Novitskiy, RSA
First spaceflight
Flight Engineer 5 Evgeny Tarelkin, RSA
Only spaceflight
Source
NASA[2][3][4]
CubeSats launched by Expedition 33 crew on 4 October 2012.

Notable experiments

The crew successfully experimented with the Delay-tolerant networking protocol and managed to control a Lego robot on earth from space.[5]

gollark: Memetically spread Alzheimer's? Troubling. Enacting ζ-124 quarantine procedures.
gollark: Do you *need* punctuation, really?
gollark: i.e. are you trying to change... political... attitudes by doing a thing.
gollark: I mostly define behaviour as political or not by intent.
gollark: This is basically what pain is for, yes.

References
  1. "Expedition 33". National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Retrieved 16 September 2012.
  2. NASA HQ (2010). "NASA And Partners Assign Crews For Upcoming Space Station Missions". NASA. Retrieved 8 July 2010.
  3. "Astronaut Bio: Sunita Williams". NASA. Retrieved 19 February 2011.
  4. "Selection of Astronaut Akihiko Hoshide as a Member of the ISS Expedition Crew". JAXA. Retrieved 19 February 2011.
  5. http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2012/nov/HQ_12-391_DTN.html

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