Expedition 40

Expedition 40 was the 40th expedition to the International Space Station. A portion of the Expedition 39 crew transferred to Expedition 40 while the remainder of the crew launched on May 28, 2014 from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.

ISS Expedition 40

Mission type	ISS Expedition
Expedition
Space Station	International Space Station
Began	13 May 2014 (2014-05-13Z) UTC
Ended	10 September 2014 (2014-09-11Z) UTC
Arrived aboard	Soyuz TMA-12M Soyuz TMA-13M
Departed aboard	Soyuz TMA-12M Soyuz TMA-13M
Crew
Crew size	6
Members	Expedition 39/40: Steven R. Swanson Aleksandr Skvortsov Oleg Artemyev Expedition 40/41: Gregory R. Wiseman Maksim Surayev Alexander Gerst
(l-r) Skvortsov, Swanson, Artemyev, Gerst, Surayev and Wiseman ISS expeditions

Upon achieving orbit approximately nine minutes after launch, Soyuz TMA-13M, delivering the remainder of the crew, began a four-orbit rendezvous with the International Space Station. Soyuz TMA-13M subsequently docked with the Rassvet module of the ISS at 1:44 UTC on May 29. Hatches were opened between the two spacecraft just over two hours later at 3:52 UTC. The expedition ended with the undocking of Soyuz TMA-12M on September 10, 2014. The remainder of Expedition 40's crew joined Expedition 41.[1]

Crew

Position	First Part (May 2014)	Second Part (May 2014 to September 2014)
Commander	Steven R. Swanson, NASA Third and last spaceflight
Flight Engineer 1	Aleksandr Skvortsov, RSA Second spaceflight
Flight Engineer 2	Oleg Artemyev, RSA First spaceflight
Flight Engineer 3		Maksim Surayev, RSA Second and last spaceflight
Flight Engineer 4		Gregory R. Wiseman, NASA First spaceflight
Flight Engineer 5		Alexander Gerst, ESA First spaceflight

Source

ESA[2]

References

1. "Station Trio Undocks Ending Expedition 40". NASA.gov. Retrieved 10 September 2014.
2. "ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst to fly to Space Station in 2014". ESA. Retrieved 2011-09-28.

External links

• NASA's Space Station Expeditions page