Expedition 22 was the 22nd long duration crew 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 ( ...
(ISS). This expedition began on December 1, 2009 when the
Expedition 21 crew departed. For a period of 3 weeks, there were only 2 crew members; it was the first time that had happened since
STS-114. Commander
Jeff Williams and flight engineer
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 ...
were joined by the rest of their crew on 22 December 2009, making the Expedition 22 a crew of five.
The expedition ended when
Soyuz TMA-16 undocked on 18 March 2010, and was immediately followed by the start of
Expedition 23
Expedition 23 (russian: МКС-23) was the 23rd long-duration mission to the International Space Station (ISS). Expedition 23 began with the Soyuz TMA-16 undocking on 18 March 2010. Shortly thereafter cosmonauts Aleksandr Skvortsov and Mikhail Ko ...
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Crew
Backup crew
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Shannon Walker
Shannon Walker (born June 4, 1965) is an American physicist and a NASA astronaut selected in 2004. She launched on her first mission into space on June 25, 2010, onboard Soyuz TMA-19 and spent over 163 days in space.
She returned to space fo ...
– Commander
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Aleksandr Skvortsov
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Douglas H. Wheelock
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Anton Shkaplerov
Anton Nikolaevich Shkaplerov (russian: Антон Николаевич Шкаплеров; born 20 February 1972) is a Russian cosmonaut. He is a veteran of four spaceflights.
Personal life
Shkaplerov is married to Tatyana Petrovna, and they ...
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Satoshi Furukawa
is a Japanese surgeon and JAXA astronaut. Furukawa was assigned to the International Space Station as a flight engineer on long-duration missions Expedition 28/ 29, lifting off 7 June 2011 and returning 22 November 2011.
Medical career
Furakawa ...
Spacewalks
Gallery
Image:Expedition22_Kotov_Creamer_Noguchi.jpg, Kotov, Creamer and Noguchi.
Image:Soyuz Rolls to the Pad (Expedition 22).jpg, The Soyuz TMA-17 spacecraft is rolled out by train to the launch pad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan, officially the Republic of Kazakhstan, is a transcontinental country located mainly in Central Asia and partly in Eastern Europe. It borders Russia to the north and west, China to the east, Kyrgyzstan to the southeast, Uzbeki ...
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Image:Expedition 22 Launch.jpg, The Soyuz TMA-17 rocket lifts off headed for the ISS on Expedition 22.
Image:Expedition 22 Reflections.jpg, Kotov used a digital still camera to take this self-portrait during a January 2010 space-walk.
Image:Expedition 22 Crew Lands.jpg, The Expedition 22 crew landed on Thursday, 18 March 2010.
See also
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2010 in spaceflight
The year 2010 saw a number of notable events in worldwide spaceflight activities. These included the first test flight of the SpaceX Dragon commercial resupply spacecraft, which is intended to resupply the International Space Station (ISS), a ...
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List of human spaceflights
This is a list of all human spaceflights throughout history. Beginning in 1961 with the flight of Yuri Gagarin aboard Vostok 1, human spaceflight occurs when a human crew flies a spacecraft into outer space. Human spaceflight is distinguished ...
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List of International Space Station spacewalks
On the International Space Station (ISS), extravehicular activities are major events in the building and maintaining of the orbital laboratory, and are performed to install new components, re-wire systems, modules, and equipment, and to mon ...
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List of spacewalks 2000–2014
References
External links
NASA's Space Station Expeditions page
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Expeditions to the International Space Station
2009 in spaceflight
2010 in spaceflight