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Expedition 5
Long-duration mission to the International Space Station / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Expedition 5 was the fifth long-duration stay on the International Space Station (ISS). The crew, consisting of three people, remained in space for 184 days, 178 of which were spent aboard the ISS. Expedition 5 was a continuation of an uninterrupted human presence in space, as of November 2022, which was begun by Expedition 1 in 2000–2001.
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Mission type | ISS Expedition |
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Mission duration | 178 days, 3 hours, 10 minutes[NASA 1] (at ISS) 184 days, 22 hours, 14 minutes and 23 seconds[NASA 1] (launch to landing) |
Expedition | |
Space station | International Space Station |
Began | 7 June 2002, 16:25 (2002-06-07UTC16:25Z) UTC |
Ended | 2 December 2002, 20:05 (2002-12-02UTC20:06Z) UTC |
Arrived aboard | STS-111[NASA 2] Space Shuttle Endeavour |
Departed aboard | STS-113 Space Shuttle Endeavour |
Crew | |
Crew size | 3 |
Members | Valery Korzun Peggy Whitson Sergei Treshchev |
EVAs | 2 |
EVA duration | 9 hours, 46 minutes |
![]() Expedition 5 mission patch ![]() L-R: Valery G. Korzun, Peggy Whitson, and Sergei Y. Treshchev |
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The crew of Expedition 5 launched to space aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour aboard the STS-111 mission on 5 June 2002.[NASA 2] Their tenure aboard the station, however, did not begin until they docked with the ISS two days later on 7 June.[NASA 1][1]