Expedition 39 was the 39th expedition 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 ...

. It marked the first time the ISS had been under command of a

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ese astronaut, space veteran

Koichi Wakata is a Japanese engineer and an astronaut working for Axiom Space. Wakata retired from JAXA in 2024 after a career in spaceflight spanning nearly two decades. He logged over 500 days in space across five missions: three aboard the Space Shuttle, ...

. After Expedition 21 in 2009 and Expedition 35 in 2013, it was only the third time an ISS crew was led by neither a

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nor an RSA crew member. During Expedition 39, Astronauts Mastracchio and Swanson installed the "Veggie" project on the International Space Station.

Crew

;Source: JAXA, NASA, ESA

References

External links

NASA's Space Station Expeditions page
{{ISS expeditions Expeditions to the International Space Station 2014 in spaceflight