Expedition 62 was the 62nd long duration mission to the

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, which began 5:50 UTC on 6 February 2020 with the undocking of the

Soyuz MS-13 Soyuz MS-13, also designated ISS flight 59S, was a crewed Soyuz mission launched on 20 July 2019 – the 50th anniversary of the first moon landing – carrying three members of the Expedition 60 crew to the International Space Station: a Rus ...

spacecraft. The Expedition consisted of Russian commander

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, as well as American flight engineers

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and Andrew Morgan. The second part of Expedition 62 was made up of the three crew members from

Soyuz MS-16 Soyuz MS-16 was a Soyuz spaceflight launched on 9 April 2020, which transported three members of the Expedition 62/ 63 crew to the International Space Station. This flight was the first crewed launch using the Soyuz 2.1a launch vehicle, and ...

Crew

Crew notes

Soyuz MS-16 was originally meant to transport the Expedition 63/64 crew to the ISS, carrying Tikhonov, Babkin and

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astronaut

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to the ISS. On 31 October 2019 it was announced that NASA astronaut Chris Cassidy would fly the mission instead of Hoshide, in order to make sure an American astronaut was on board the station at all times, in the face of delays with the

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. These changes also meant that Soyuz MS-16's crew would make up part of Expedition 62. The Expedition also marked the first time the Russian segment of the ISS has had three crew members since

Expedition 50 Expedition 50 was the 50th expedition to the International Space Station. Robert S. Kimbrough, Andrei Borisenko and Sergey Ryzhikov transferred from Expedition 49. Expedition 50 began upon the departure of Soyuz MS-01 on October 28, 2016 and ...

, and was one of the shortest expeditions in the program, at just over two months long.

Patch design notes

In February 2019, graphic designer and art director Jessie Bowers (Cypha) designed the Expedition 62 patch.

References

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