Expedition 19 was the 19th long-duration flight to the
International Space Station
The International Space Station (ISS) is the largest modular space station currently in low Earth orbit. It is a multinational collaborative project involving five participating space agencies: NASA (United States), Roscosmos (Russia), JAXA ...
. This expedition launched on 26 March 2009, at 11:49
UTC aboard the
Soyuz TMA-14
The Soyuz TMA-14 (russian: Союз ТМА-14, ''Union TMA-14'') was a Soyuz programme, Soyuz flight to the International Space Station, which launched on 26 March 2009. It transported two members of the Expedition 19 crew as well as spaceflight ...
spacecraft. Expedition 19 was the final three crew member expedition, before the crew size increased to six crew members with
Expedition 20
Expedition 20 was the 20th long-duration flight to the International Space Station. The expedition marked the first time a six-member crew inhabited the station. Because each Soyuz-TMA spacecraft could hold only three people, two separate launc ...
.
The expedition was commanded by Russian Air Force Colonel
Gennady Padalka
Gennady Ivanovich Padalka (russian: Гeннадий Иванович Падалка; born 21 June 1958 in Krasnodar, Soviet Union) is a Russian Air Force officer and a Roscosmos cosmonaut. Padalka currently holds the world record for List of spac ...
. On 31 March 2009, Padalka raised an issue concerning shared use of facilities such as exercise equipment and toilet facilities. Padalka claims that initial approval to use exercise equipment owned by the U.S. government was subsequently turned down. Russian and American members of the crew have now been informed to use only their own toilets and not to share rations. The result was a general lowering of morale on the station.
'Toilet row' lowers space morale. BBC News. 31 March 2009
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Crew
Backup crew
* Maksim Surayev
Maksim Viktorovich Surayev (russian: Максим Викторович Сураев, born 24 May 1972) is a retired Russian cosmonaut and politician. He served in the State Duma between 2016 and 2021.
Personal
Surayev was born in Chelyabinsk. D ...
- Commander - RSA (For Padalka)
* Jeffrey Williams - Flight Engineer - NASA (For Barratt)
* Soichi Noguchi
is a Japanese aeronautical engineer and former JAXA astronaut. His first spaceflight was as a Mission Specialist aboard STS-114 on 26 July 2005 for NASA's first "return to flight" Space Shuttle mission after the ''Columbia'' disaster. He was ...
- Flight Engineer - JAXA (For Wakata)
References
External links
NASA Expedition 19 Main Page
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Expeditions to the International Space Station
2009 in spaceflight