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Expedition 13

Expedition to the International Space Station

Field	Value
name	Expedition 13
image	Expedition 13 crew poster.jpg
image_caption	Promotional poster
insignia	ISS Expedition 13 Patch with Reiter.svg
insignia_caption	Expedition 13 mission patch
mission_type	Long-duration expedition
mission_duration	180 days, 17 hours, 34 minutes (at ISS)
182 days, 23 hours, 44 minutes (launch to landing)
orbits_completed	2,886
crew_size	2
3 (from July)
crew_members	Pavel Vinogradov
Jeffrey Williams
Thomas Reiter* (from July)
* – Transferred to Expedition 14
crew_EVAs	2
crew_EVA_duration	12 hours, 25 minutes
crew_photo	ISS_expedition_13_crew_with_reiter.jpg
space_station	International Space Station
start_date	UTC
end_date	UTC
arrival_craft	Soyuz TMA-8
Reiter: STS-121

departure_craft	Soyuz TMA-8
Reiter: STS-116

previous_mission	Expedition 12
next_mission	Expedition 14
programme	ISS expeditions

182 days, 23 hours, 44 minutes (launch to landing) 3 (from July) Jeffrey Williams Thomas Reiter* (from July)

– Transferred to Expedition 14 Reiter: STS-121

Reiter: STS-116

Expedition 13 was the 13th expedition to the International Space Station (ISS), and launched at 02:30 UTC on 30 March 2006. The expedition used the Soyuz TMA-8 spacecraft, which stayed at the station for the duration of the expedition for emergency evacuation.

Marcos Pontes launched with Expedition 13 on the Soyuz TMA-8 spacecraft and became the first Brazilian in space. He returned with Expedition 12 on Soyuz TMA-7 after a nine-day mission.

Thomas Reiter, from the European Space Agency, became part of the Expedition 13 crew in July 2006. Reiter was launched with the second "Return to Flight" mission on Discovery (STS-121) on 4 July 2006. Reiter became the first European long-duration crew member on the International Space Station when he officially joined the crew of the ISS at 19:13 UTC on 6 July 2006 upon the complete installation of his Soyuz spacecraft seat liner, allowing him to return to Earth aboard the docked Soyuz craft.

Reiter's arrival restored the station crew to three members for the first time since May 2003. The station's crew size had been reduced to two when shuttle flights were put on hold after the Space Shuttle Columbia accident on 1 February 2003.

Crew

Original Expedition 13 Patch before the addition of Thomas Reiter

Position	First Part
(March to July 2006)	Second Part
(July to September 2006)	Commander	Flight Engineer 1	Flight Engineer 2
RUS Pavel Vinogradov, RSA
Second spaceflight
USA Jeffrey Williams, NASA
Second spaceflight
	GER Thomas Reiter, ESA
Second and last Spaceflight

Cosmonaut Dmitri Kondratyev was originally assigned to the flight but he was replaced by Reiter several months before launch.

Back-up crew

RUS Fyodor Yurchikhin Commander and Soyuz Commander – RSA
USA Michael Fincke Flight Engineer and NASA Science Officer – NASA
FRA Léopold Eyharts Flight Engineer – ESA (France)

Spacewalks

EVA 1

The first spacewalk for Expedition 13, performed by Pavel Vinogradov and Jeffrey Williams, began on 1 June, and ended on 2 June 2006.

It was originally scheduled to include a golf shot off the space station but the event was postponed to Expedition 14, as NASA was still evaluating the risks.

The spacewalk ran behind schedule, requiring an extra 50 minutes to be added to the length in order to complete the camera replacement. The EVA began 1 June, at 23:48 UTC and ended 2 June at 06:19 UTC, lasting 6 hours and 31 minutes. Other tasks during the walk included repair of a vent for the station's oxygen-producing Elektron unit, and retrieval of experiment packages.

EVA 2

The second spacewalk for Expedition 13 occurred on 3 August 2006. The spacewalk was performed by Jeffrey Williams and Thomas Reiter, it began at 14:04 UTC and ended at 19:58 UTC, for a duration of 5 hours and 54 minutes.

During the spacewalk the astronauts installed the Floating Potential Measurement Unit (FPMU), installed two Materials on Materials International Space Station Experiment (MISSE) containers, installed a controller for a thermal radiator rotary joint, replaced a computer and installed a starboard jumper and spool positioning device (SPD), inspected a radiator beam valve module and installed another, installed a port jumper and SPD, tested an infrared camera, installed a light on the truss railway handcart, replaced a malfunctioning GPS antenna, installed a vacuum system valve, moved two articulated portable foot restraints, photographed a scratch on the airlock hatch, and retrieved a ball stack for inspection from PMA-1.

References

NASA. (2006). "Expedition 13". NASA.
[https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/expeditions/expedition26/kondratyev_interview.html NASA.gov]
Cowing, Keith. (28 February 2006). "Golf or Science: What is NASA's Plan for the Space Station?". SpaceRef.com.
NASA. (2 June 2006). "Station Crew Winds Up Successful Spacewalk". NASA.
NASA. (3 August 2006). "Station Crewmen Back Inside After Spacewalk". NASA.

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