Expedition 33
Encyclopedia
Expedition 33 is scheduled to be the thirty-third expedition to the International Space Station
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Source: NASA
International Space Station
The International Space Station is a habitable, artificial satellite in low Earth orbit. The ISS follows the Salyut, Almaz, Cosmos, Skylab, and Mir space stations, as the 11th space station launched, not including the Genesis I and II prototypes...
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Crew
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| Commander | Sunita Williams Sunita Williams Sunita Williams is a United States Naval officer and a NASA astronaut. She was assigned to the International Space Station as a member of Expedition 14 and then joined Expedition 15... , NASA NASA The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is the agency of the United States government that is responsible for the nation's civilian space program and for aeronautics and aerospace research... Second spaceflight |
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| Flight Engineer 1 | Yuri Malenchenko Yuri Malenchenko Yuri Ivanovich Malenchenko is a Ukrainian-Russian cosmonaut. Malenchenko became the first person to marry in space, on 10 August 2003, when he married Ekaterina Dmitrieva, who was in Texas, while he was 240 miles over New Zealand, on the International Space Station... , RSA Russian Federal Space Agency The Russian Federal Space Agency , commonly called Roscosmos and abbreviated as FKA and RKA , is the government agency responsible for the Russian space science program and general aerospace research. It was previously the Russian Aviation and Space Agency .Headquarters of Roscosmos are located... Fifth spaceflight |
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| Flight Engineer 2 | Akihiko Hoshide Akihiko Hoshide is a Japanese engineer and a JAXA astronaut.He was born in 1968 in Setagaya, Tokyo, Japan, but grew up in New Jersey. He received an International Baccalaureate Diploma from the United World College of South East Asia in 1987, a Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from Keio University in... , JAXA Second spaceflight |
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| Flight Engineer 3 | Kevin A. Ford Kevin A. Ford Kevin Anthony Ford is a retired United States Air Force Colonel and a NASA astronaut. He is married with two children. Ford has received a number of special honors and awards, some of which are the Air Force Meritorious Service Medal, Air Force Commendation Medal, Aerial Achievement Medal and the... , NASA Second spaceflight |
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| Flight Engineer 4 | Oleg Novitskiy Oleg Novitskiy Oleg Viktorovich Novitskiy born on October 12, 1971, lieutenant colonel of Russian Air Force, is a Russian cosmonaut, selected in 2006.-External links:*... , RSA First spaceflight |
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| Flight Engineer 5 | Evgeny Tarelkin Evgeny Tarelkin Evgeny Igorevich Tarelkin is a Russian cosmonaut. He was selected as part of the TsPK-13 group in 2003.-Biography:Tarelkin graduated from the Yeysk Air Force School in 1996 and the Gagarin Air Force Academy in 1998 before rising to the rank of Captain in the Russian Air Force... , RSA First spaceflight |
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Source: NASA