Expedition 22 was the twenty-second long duration crew flight to the
International Space Station
The International Space Station (ISS) is a large space station that was Assembly of the International Space Station, assembled and is maintained in low Earth orbit by a collaboration of five space agencies and their contractors: NASA (United ...
(ISS). This expedition began on 1 December 2009 when the
Expedition 21 crew departed. For a period of three weeks, there were only two crew members; it was the first time that had occurred since
STS-114. Commander
Jeff Williams and flight engineer
Maksim Surayev were joined by the rest of their crew on 22 December 2009, making the Expedition 22 a crew of five.
The expedition had ended when
Soyuz TMA-16 undocked on 18 March 2010, and was immediately followed by the start of
Expedition 23.
Crew
Backup crew
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Shannon Walker – Commander
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Aleksandr Skvortsov
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Douglas H. Wheelock
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Anton Shkaplerov
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Satoshi Furukawa
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
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, Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan, officially the Republic of Kazakhstan, is a landlocked country primarily in Central Asia, with a European Kazakhstan, small portion in Eastern Europe. It borders Russia to the Kazakhstan–Russia border, north and west, China to th ...
.
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
Self-portraits are Portrait painting, portraits artists make of themselves. Although self-portraits have been made since the earliest times, the practice of self-portraiture only gaining momentum in the Early Renaissance in the mid-15th century ...
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
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List of human spaceflights
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List of International Space Station spacewalks
On the International Space Station (ISS), Extravehicular activity, 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, a ...
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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