Expedition 33

ISS Expedition 33

Mission type	ISS Expedition
Expedition
Space Station	International Space Station
Began	16 September 2012, 23:09 (2012-09-16UTC23:09Z) UTC
Ended	18 November 2012 (2012-11-19)
Arrived aboard	Soyuz TMA-05M Soyuz TMA-06M
Departed aboard	Soyuz TMA-05M Soyuz TMA-06M
Crew
Crew size	6
Members	Expedition 32/33: Sunita Williams Yuri Malenchenko Akihiko Hoshide Expedition 33/34: Kevin A. Ford Oleg Novitskiy Evgeny Tarelkin
File:ISS Expedition 33 Patch.png File:Expedition 33 crew portrait.jpg (l-r) Williams, Malenchenko, Hoshide, Tarelkin, Novitskiy and Ford ISS expeditions ← Expedition 32 Expedition 34 →

Expedition 33 was the 33rd long-duration expedition to the International Space Station (ISS). It began on 16 September 2012 with the departure from the ISS of the Soyuz TMA-04M spacecraft, which returned the Expedition 32 crew to Earth.

Crew

Position	First Part (September 2012 to October 2012)	Second Part (October 2012 to November 2012)
Commander	Sunita Williams, NASA Second spaceflight
Flight Engineer 1	Yuri Malenchenko, RSA Fifth spaceflight
Flight Engineer 2	Akihiko Hoshide, JAXA Second spaceflight
Flight Engineer 3		Kevin A. Ford, NASA Second spaceflight
Flight Engineer 4		Oleg Novitskiy, RSA First spaceflight
Flight Engineer 5		Evgeny Tarelkin, RSA First spaceflight

Source

NASA

File:CubeSats launched by ISS Expedition 33.jpg

CubeSats launched by Expedition 33 crew on 4 October 2012.

Notable experiments

The crew successfully experimented with the Delay-tolerant networking protocol and managed to control a Lego robot on earth from space.

External links

• NASA's Space Station Expeditions page
• NASA's Consolidated Launch Schedule
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