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Long-duration mission to the International Space Station From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Expedition 40 was the 40th expedition to the International Space Station. A portion of the Expedition 39 crew transferred to Expedition 40 while the remainder of the crew launched on May 28, 2014 from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
Mission type | Long-duration expedition |
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Expedition | |
Space station | International Space Station |
Began | 13 May 2014 UTC |
Ended | 10 September 2014 UTC |
Arrived aboard | Soyuz TMA-12M Soyuz TMA-13M |
Departed aboard | Soyuz TMA-12M Soyuz TMA-13M |
Crew | |
Crew size | 6 |
Members | Expedition 39/40: Steven R. Swanson Aleksandr Skvortsov Oleg Artemyev Expedition 40/41: Gregory R. Wiseman Maksim Surayev Alexander Gerst |
Expedition 40 mission patch (l-r) Skvortsov, Swanson, Artemyev, Gerst, Surayev and Wiseman |
Upon achieving orbit approximately nine minutes after launch, Soyuz TMA-13M, delivering the remainder of the crew, began a four-orbit rendezvous with the International Space Station. Soyuz TMA-13M subsequently docked with the Rassvet module of the ISS at 1:44 UTC on May 29. Hatches were opened between the two spacecraft just over two hours later at 3:52 UTC. The expedition ended with the undocking of Soyuz TMA-12M on September 10, 2014. The remainder of Expedition 40's crew joined Expedition 41.[1]
Position | First Part (May 2014) |
Second Part (May 2014 to September 2014) | |
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Commander | Steven R. Swanson, NASA Third and last spaceflight | ||
Flight Engineer 1 | Aleksandr Skvortsov, RSA Second spaceflight | ||
Flight Engineer 2 | Oleg Artemyev, RSA First spaceflight | ||
Flight Engineer 3 | Maksim Surayev, RSA Second and last spaceflight | ||
Flight Engineer 4 | Gregory R. Wiseman, NASA First spaceflight | ||
Flight Engineer 5 | Alexander Gerst, ESA First spaceflight | ||
The Mobile Servicing System is a robotic system onboard the ISS used for assembly and maintenance. During Expedition 40, it was used the replace a broken camera on the system's mobile base with a deteriorated but functional camera from the arm, and to in turn place a new camera on the arm. This marked the first self-repair by a robot in space, and is likely to result in reduced need for time consuming and dangerous space walks. [3]
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