Expedition 46 was the 46th expedition to the
International Space Station
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.
Sergey Volkov,
Mikhail Korniyenko
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and
Scott Kelly transferred from
Expedition 45
Expedition 45 was the 45th expedition to the International Space Station. Scott Kelly and Mikhail Korniyenko transferred from Expedition 44 as part of their year-long stay aboard the ISS. Expedition 45 began with the arrival of Soyuz TMA-18M at t ...
, the latter two as part of their year-long stay aboard the ISS. Expedition 46 began with the departure of
Soyuz TMA-17M
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on 11 December 2015 and concluded upon the departure of
Soyuz TMA-18M
Soyuz TMA-18M was a 2015 Soyuz spaceflight to the International Space Station. It provided the two twelve-months occupants ( Scott Kelly and Mikhail Korniyenko) at the International Space Station with a fresh Soyuz capsule. TMA-18M was the 127th ...
on 1 March 2016, and the crew of
Soyuz TMA-19M
Soyuz TMA-19M was a 2015 Russian Soyuz (spacecraft), Soyuz spaceflight to the International Space Station. It was launched on December 15, 2015 from Baikonur Cosmodrome, transporting three members of the Expedition 46 crew to the International Sp ...
transferred to
Expedition 47
Expedition 47 was the 47th expedition to the International Space Station.
Yuri Malenchenko, Timothy Peake and Timothy Kopra transferred from Expedition 46. Expedition 47 began upon the departure of Soyuz TMA-18M on 2 March 2016 and concluded upo ...
.
The expedition has the first British ESA
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astronaut (Tim Peake
Major Timothy Nigel Peake (born 7 April 1972) is a British Army Air Corps officer, European Space Agency astronaut and a former International Space Station (ISS) crew member.
He is the first British ESA astronaut, the second astronaut to bear ...
) to visit the International Space Station (ISS
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).
Crew
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Mission highlights
Following the arrival of the Soyuz TMA-19M
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crew, the next vehicle manoeuvre was the departure of the Progress M-28M, on 19 December. Progress MS-1 then launched to the ISS, atop a Soyuz 2.1a, on 21 December. The same day, Commander Scott Kelly and Timothy Kopra performed a contingency EVA
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and successfully repaired the Mobile Base System
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. On 23 December, the Progress MS-1 resupply vehicle docked at the ISS.
On 8 January 2016, pupils from Sandringham School
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in St Albans
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made the first amateur radio
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call to a British astronaut at the International Space Station, contacting Tim Peake
Major Timothy Nigel Peake (born 7 April 1972) is a British Army Air Corps officer, European Space Agency astronaut and a former International Space Station (ISS) crew member.
He is the first British ESA astronaut, the second astronaut to bear ...
as part of his ''Principia'' mission.
On 15 January 2016, Tim Peake and Timothy Kopra began an EVA at 12:55 GMT. A failed voltage regulator (1B SSU) was replaced during the EVA. This EVA marked the first official spacewalk by a Briton, Tim Peake, who was wearing the Union Jack
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on his EMU
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. NASA decided to finish the spacewalk around 17:00 GMT, as Timothy Kopra reported water in his helmet. The spacesuit, which Kopra was wearing, was the same one worn by Luca Parmitano
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Parmitano is also a Colonel and te ...
on 16 July 2013, when his helmet flooded during EVA-23 of Expedition 36
Expedition 36 was the 36th long-duration mission to the International Space Station.
Crew
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Mission
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On 23 February 2016, Scott Kelly displayed his sense of humour by wearing a gorilla suit
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, while chasing Tim Peake through the space station, in a recorded video with the backing track of ''Yakety Sax
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''. The following day, a video message from Tim Peake was played at the 2016 Brit Awards
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, giving congratulations to Adele
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for her award.
A further EVA was also scheduled to take place during Expedition 46.
See also
*ISS year long mission
The ISS year-long mission was an 11-month-long scientific research project aboard the International Space Station, which studied the health effects of long-term spaceflight. Astronaut Scott Kelly (ideally suited for the experiment as the identic ...
References
External links
NASA's Space Station Expeditions page
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Expeditions to the International Space Station
2015 in spaceflight
2016 in spaceflight