Expedition 33 was the 33rd long-duration expedition 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). It began on 16 September 2012 with the departure from the ISS of the

Soyuz TMA-04M Soyuz TMA-04M was a spaceflight to Low Earth orbit that transported three members of the Expedition 31 crew to the International Space Station (ISS), which was launched on 15 May 2012 and landed on 17 September 2012. TMA-04M was the Soyuz spacec ...

spacecraft, which returned the

Expedition 32 Expedition 32 was the 32nd long-duration expedition to the International Space Station (ISS). It began on 1 July 2012 with the departure from the ISS of the Soyuz TMA-03M spacecraft, which returned the Expedition 31 crew to Earth, and conclude ...

crew to Earth.

Crew

;Source: NASA CubeSats launched by ISS Expedition 33

Notable experiments

The crew successfully experimented with the

Delay-tolerant networking Delay-tolerant networking (DTN) is an approach to computer network architecture that seeks to address the technical issues in heterogeneous networks that may lack continuous network connectivity. Examples of such networks are those operating in mo ...

protocol and managed to control a Lego robot on earth from space.

References

External links

NASA's Space Station Expeditions page
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