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Expedition 34
Long-duration mission to the International Space Station
Long-duration mission to the International Space Station
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| name | Expedition 34 |
| image | Expedition 34 crew poster.jpg |
| image_caption | Promotional Poster |
| insignia | ISS Expedition 34 Patch.svg |
| insignia_caption | Expedition 34 mission patch |
| mission_type | Long-duration expedition |
| crew_size | 6 |
| crew_members | **Expedition 33/34**: |
| Kevin A. Ford | |
| Oleg Novitskiy | |
| Evgeny Tarelkin | |
| **Expedition 34/35**: | |
| Thomas H. Marshburn | |
| Chris A. Hadfield | |
| Roman Romanenko | |
| crew_photo | Expedition 34 crew portrait.jpg |
| crew_photo_caption | (l-r) Novitskiy, Ford, Tarelkin, Romanenko, Hadfield and Marshburn |
| space_station | International Space Station |
| start_date | |
| end_date | |
| arrival_craft | Soyuz TMA-06M |
| Soyuz TMA-07M | |
| departure_craft | Soyuz TMA-06M |
| Soyuz TMA-07M | |
| previous_mission | Expedition 33 |
| next_mission | Expedition 35 |
| programme | ISS expeditions |
Kevin A. Ford Oleg Novitskiy Evgeny Tarelkin
Expedition 34/35: Thomas H. Marshburn Chris A. Hadfield Roman Romanenko
Soyuz TMA-07M Soyuz TMA-07M
Expedition 34 was the 34th long-duration expedition to the International Space Station (ISS). It began on 18 November 2012 with the departure from the ISS of the Soyuz TMA-05M spacecraft, which returned the Expedition 33 crew to Earth.
Crew
| Position | First Part | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| (November 2012) | Second Part | |||||||
| (December 2012 to March 2013) | Commander | Flight Engineer 1 | Flight Engineer 2 | Flight Engineer 3 | Flight Engineer 4 | Flight Engineer 5 | ||
| USA Kevin A. Ford, NASA | ||||||||
| Second and last spaceflight | ||||||||
| RUS Oleg Novitskiy, RSA | ||||||||
| First spaceflight | ||||||||
| RUS Evgeny Tarelkin, RSA | ||||||||
| Only spaceflight | ||||||||
| USA Thomas Marshburn, NASA | ||||||||
| Second spaceflight | ||||||||
| CAN Chris Hadfield, CSA | ||||||||
| Third and last spaceflight | ||||||||
| RUS Roman Romanenko, RSA | ||||||||
| Second and last spaceflight |
;Source: NASA
Mission objectives
Some of the science objectives included investigations of the human cardiovascular system in space, studies on fish and their sensation of gravity, and the impacts of solar radiation on Earth's climate. During the expedition, the robotic platform Robonaut, a humanoid robot test platform, continued testing.
References
References
- NASA HQ. (2010). "NASA And Partners Assign Crews For Upcoming Space Station Missions". NASA.
- NASA. "NASA and Its Partners Announce a New Space Station Crew".
- Alan Taylor. (2013). "The International Space Station: Expedition 34". The Atlantic.
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