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Expedition 33 (ISS)
Long-duration mission to the International Space Station
Long-duration mission to the International Space Station
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| name | Expedition 33 |
| image | Expedition 33 crew poster.jpg |
| image_caption | Promotional poster |
| insignia | ISS Expedition 33 Patch.svg |
| insignia_caption | Expedition 33 mission patch |
| mission_type | Long-duration expedition |
| crew_size | 6 |
| crew_members | **Expedition 32/33**: |
| Sunita Williams | |
| Yuri Malenchenko | |
| Akihiko Hoshide | |
| **Expedition 33/34**: | |
| Kevin A. Ford | |
| Oleg Novitskiy | |
| Evgeny Tarelkin | |
| crew_photo | Expedition 33 crew portrait.jpg |
| crew_photo_caption | (l-r) Williams, Malenchenko, Hoshide, Tarelkin, Novitskiy and Ford |
| space_station | International Space Station |
| start_date | UTC |
| end_date | |
| arrival_craft | Soyuz TMA-05M |
| Soyuz TMA-06M | |
| departure_craft | Soyuz TMA-05M |
| Soyuz TMA-06M | |
| previous_mission | Expedition 32 |
| next_mission | Expedition 34 |
| programme | ISS expeditions |
Sunita Williams Yuri Malenchenko Akihiko Hoshide
Expedition 33/34: Kevin A. Ford Oleg Novitskiy Evgeny Tarelkin Soyuz TMA-06M Soyuz TMA-06M
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.
Crew
| Position | First Part | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| (September–October 2012) | Second Part | |||||||
| (October–November 2012) | Commander | Flight Engineer 1 | Flight Engineer 2 | Flight Engineer 3 | Flight Engineer 4 | Flight Engineer 5 | ||
| USA Sunita Williams, NASA | ||||||||
| Second spaceflight | ||||||||
| RUS Yuri Malenchenko, RSA | ||||||||
| Fifth spaceflight | ||||||||
| Japan Akihiko Hoshide, JAXA | ||||||||
| Second spaceflight | ||||||||
| USA Kevin A. Ford, NASA | ||||||||
| Second and last spaceflight | ||||||||
| RUS Oleg Novitskiy, RSA | ||||||||
| First spaceflight | ||||||||
| RUS Evgeny Tarelkin, RSA | ||||||||
| Only spaceflight |
;Source: NASA
Notable experiments
The crew successfully experimented with the Delay-tolerant networking protocol and managed to control a Lego robot on Earth from space.
References
References
- "Expedition 33". National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
- NASA HQ. (2010). "NASA And Partners Assign Crews For Upcoming Space Station Missions". NASA.
- "Astronaut Bio: Sunita Williams". NASA.
- "Selection of Astronaut Akihiko Hoshide as a Member of the ISS Expedition Crew". JAXA.
- (7 April 2015). "NASA, ESA Use Experimental Interplanetary Internet to Test Robot from International Space Station".
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